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| 147 FIRs filed against political parties in Delhi | | | New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A total of 147 FIRs have been registered against political parties for violating the model code of conduct here, said an Election Commission official Tuesday. The model code of conduct came into force March 5 with the Lok Sabha election scheduled in the national capital April 10. "A total of 20 FIRs have been registered against the Bharatiya Janata Party, 15 against the Congress and 14 have been lodged against the Aam Aadmi Party," said the official. Poll panel officials have also seized 47 unlicenced arms from members of political parties. |
| Death toll in Syria's civil war above 150,000 - monitor | | | At least 150,000 people have been killed in Syria's three-year-old civil war, a third of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. The UK-based Observatory, which monitors violence in Syria through a network of activists and medical or security sources, said that real toll was likely to be significantly higher at around 220,000 deaths. Efforts to end the conflict by bringing together representatives of President Bashar al-Assad's government and the opposition have so far failed. The United Nations peace mediator for Syria said last week that talks were unlikely to resume soon. |
| Trial in rape case against BSP MP to begin April 4 | | | New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A court here Tuesday fixed April 4 to begin recording of evidence in a case against BSP MP Dhananjay Singh, accused for allegedly raping a woman over nearly four years. The commencement of the trial was scheduled Tuesday but Additional Sessions Judge Sarita Birbal fixed it for Friday. Dhananjay Singh, member from from Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur, had been charge sheeted Jan 31 for allegedly repeatedly raping a 42-year-old married railway employee between July 2005 and March 2009. Dhananjay Singh's defence counsel S.P.M. Tripathi has denied the charges. |
| Humanitarian crisis looms in western Myanmar as foreign aid workers leave | | | With food stocks dwindling and prices rising by the hour in his camp for displaced Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state, Hla Maung decided to ask a friend in the neighbouring village for food. The situation is about to get dramatically worse for Hla Maung and tens of thousands of others dependent on food and water rations, said humanitarian workers evacuated after recent riots in the state capital, Sittwe. At least 20,000 people in displacement camps around Sittwe will run out of drinking water within 10 days, while food stocks will run out within two weeks, imperilling thousands more. The overall numbers of people facing shortages are likely much higher, because the aid workers were referring only to communities in the Sittwe area. |
| Attacked by Trinamool activists, say poll officials | | | Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) Members of a election Model Code of Conduct (MCC) team Tuesday alleged they were roughed up by Trinamool Congress activists after posters and festoons of the ruling party were removed in West Bengal's Howrah district. The incident which happened in Howrah Vivekananda Road comes days after a block development officer in North 24 Parganas district lodged a police complaint alleging he was assaulted by Trinamool activists for removing party banners and posters. "Trinamool posters and festoons were put up inside a school which goes against the MCC. When we tried to remove them, a large number of party activists attacked and assaulted us," said a MCC team member. |
| BSF recovers 27 kg heroin in Punjab | | | Chandigarh, April 1 (IANS) Border Security Force (BSF) troopers recovered 27 kg of heroin following an encounter with Pakistani smugglers in Abohar in Punjab, a BSF official said Tuesday. The heroin is believed to be valued at Rs.135 crore in the international market. The BSF also seized ammunition, SIM cards and mobiles from the place. "The BSF personnel at border outpost Khanpur observed suspicious movement of smugglers along the security fence. |
| Thai anti-government protester killed, rekindling political crisis | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a group of Thai anti-government protesters driving away from a Bangkok rally on Tuesday, killing one, wounding four and raising tension in a political crisis that has gripped the country for months. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the violence which brought the death toll to 24, with scores wounded, since protesters took to the streets in November in a bid to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office and erase the influence of her brother, ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra. Yingluck has resisted mounting pressure to step down and her "red shirt" supporters have called for a mass rally in Bangkok on Sunday, raising the risk of further confrontation. One succumbed to a gunshot wound to the head," an official at Ramathibodi Hospital in Bangkok told Reuters.
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| Ukraine orders disarming of armed groups after shooting | | | By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday ordered security forces to disarm illegal armed groups as police shut down the Kiev base of a far-right nationalist group prominent in the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich after a shooting incident in which three people were wounded. Ukraine's new leaders acted after Monday night's violence in Kiev city centre, conscious that an increasing criminal climate could discredit the anti-Yanukovich uprising and be used by Moscow's propaganda machine to show that law and order was breaking down in Ukraine. The proposal approved by parliament linked a growing "criminal atmosphere" to what it described as "systematic provocations from foreign citizens in the eastern-southern regions of Ukraine and in Kiev" - suggesting that Russian agents or trouble-makers were stirring unrest in parts of the country. "Parliament orders the interior ministry and the state security service to immediately disarm illegal armed groups," the motion said. |
| Four commit suicide in Odisha | | | Bhubaneswar, April 1 (IANS) At least four members of a family committed suicide Tuesday in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, police said. The incident occurred at Dhenkanal town, the district headquarters but came to light after Arjun Kumar Sahu, the family head, brought them to a government hospital, police officer Pradip Pradhan said. |
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