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| Two killed in Uttar Pradesh school bus accident | | | Lucknow, Feb 3 (IANS) Two people, including a student, were killed Monday when a school bus met with an accident in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district, 330 km from here. |
| Thai protesters head for downtown Bangkok in bid to topple PM | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai anti-government protesters who have been camped out in north Bangkok packed their tents and marched downtown on Monday as they consolidated efforts to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, a day after a disrupted general election. Some joined protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban on foot and others followed in cars and six-wheel trucks as Thailand's long-running political conflict showed no sign of ending. Others surrounded a government office in north Bangkok where Yingluck and two senior ministers had been holding a meeting and cut through a barbed-wire fence. They did not enter the building and it was unclear if Yingluck was still inside.
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| Prisoners go on strike for release in Jharkhand | | | Ranchi, Feb 3 (IANS) Over a thousand prisoners went on strike in different jails of Jharkhand on Monday demanding their release, with some also on hunger strike. Around 700 prisoners are sitting on strike in Jai Prakash Narayan Central Jail, 200 in Garwah jail and 140 in Medininagar jail. The meeting has not taken place in the last few years," Inspector General (Prison) Shailendra Bhushan told IANS. |
| Thailand's political crisis: how events might unfold | |  By Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai demonstrators are consolidating efforts to bring down Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and have rejected an election held on Sunday that could renew her mandate. Due to disruption of the vote, Yingluck could be a mere caretaker premier for months, exposing her to the prospect of intensified protests, legal cases or military intervention. ELECTION DECLARED VOID, NEW POLL DATE SET Opponents could lodge a raft of complaints with the Election Commission, from fraud and obstruction of voting to the failure to register candidates and the holding of balloting on several dates, which could be deemed unconstitutional. The Constitutional Court might invalidate the election and order a new one.
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| Nigerian Muslim cleric opposed to Boko Haram shot dead | | | A Nigerian Muslim cleric who openly criticised Islamist sect Boko Haram has been killed in Zaria, hundreds of miles from where the military is fighting insurgents, police said on Monday. Gunmen opened fire on Sheik Adam Albani's car on Saturday evening as he drove home from preaching in a mosque, also killing his wife and young son, police spokesman Aminu Lawan said. Western governments see prominent leaders like Sheik Albani playing a role in the long-term fight against Boko Haram and other al Qaeda-linked groups, in a deeply religious country of 170 million people. The assassination of Sheik Albani in Zaria, the capital of Kaduna state in a central northern region, could discourage others from speaking out against Boko Haram, whose primary recruiting pool is the millions of uneducated youths in the north of Nigeria. |
| No trace yet of kidnapped Meghalaya legislator's brother | | | Shillong, Feb 3 (IANS) The whereabouts of the brother of a Meghalaya legislator kidnapped by Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) rebels are still unknown, four days since the abduction. On Jan 30, four armed GNLA rebels abducted Naga M. Sangma, 39, the younger brother of Independent legislator Samuel M. Sangma, at gunpoint from his house in the Gasuapara area in South Garo Hills, about 180 km from the state capital. "We don't know the whereabouts of Sangma, but rescue operations are on," Abraham Sangma, the district police official of South Garo Hills, told IANS. Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) and Meghalaya's Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) commandos have been pressed into service to trace the hostage. |
| Gunman shoots police, takes students hostage at Moscow school - reports | | | A gunman shot and killed a police officer and took more than 20 students hostage at a high school on the outskirts of Moscow on Monday, Russian news website Lifenews reported. A police spokeswoman said a man entered the school with a rifle and shot a security guard. An eyewitness told Rossiya-24 television news that a police helicopter hovered overhead. |
| Wife of slain former CPI-M leader on hunger strike | | | Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 3 (IANS) K.K. Rema, wife of slain former CPI-M leader T.P. Chandrasekheran, Monday began an indefinite fast in front of the secretariat demanding that the state government order a CBI probe into her husband's murder. Last week, the special additional sessions court in Kozhikode sentenced 11 of the 12 accused in the case to life imprisonment and also observed that the murder was the result of political rivalry not personal grudge. Chandrasekheran, 51, who launched the Revolutionary Marxist Party after his exit from the CPI-M, was hacked 51 times by assailants May 4, 2012 when he was returning home on his motorcycle. A hugely popular leader in and around the Kozhikode district, Chandrasekheran took on his former party, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), from which he was ousted in 2008, and criticised their ideological stand. |
| China says no cover-ups using state secrecy as excuse | |  China has unveiled new rules telling officials not to cover up what should be publicly available information using the excuse it is a state secret, in what state media said was a move towards greater government transparency. China has notoriously vague state secret laws, covering everything from the number of people executed every year to industry databases and even pollution figures, and information can be retroactively labelled a state secret. The issue received international attention in 2009 when an Australian citizen and three Chinese colleagues working for mining giant Rio Tinto were detained for stealing state secrets during the course of tense iron ore negotiations. The new rules, carried by the official Xinhua news agency late on Sunday, mandate that government departments "must not define as a state secret information which by law ought to be public".
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| Couple strips in front of Rashtrapati Bhavan | | | New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) A couple in their 30s stripped in front of Rashtrapati Bhavan after they were denied entry to the president's house, police said Monday. The couple went to the main gate of Rashtrapati Bhavan and demanded to meet President Pranab Mukherjee. When the security personnel at the entry asked for the reason, they failed to say why. "The couple then took off their clothes," a police officer told IANS. |
| Mission Impossible: Three students hunt for Dawood, return home | | | Patna, Feb 3 (IANS) Three school students embarked on a "mission" to get-rich-quick by hunting down Dawood Ibrahim and handing over the underworld don to authorities. The class nine students of St Michael High School in this Bihar capital went missing last week and only returned home after their mission to catch Dawood Ibrahim failed, said police Monday. Patna police is stunned over their motive and mission. "Please take care of your wards and keep a watch on their activities, so that they don't take the wrong path," Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said. |
| One more held for Delhi heist | | | New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) The Delhi Police have made one more arrest in the sensational Rs.7.69-crore heist here, a police officer said Monday. "Ajay, in his early 20s, was arrested from south Delhi area early this (Monday) morning," the officer told IANS. A group of people robbed Rs.7.69 crore cash from businessman Rajesh Kalra near Lajpat Nagar in south Delhi and hijacked the car in which he was going with four other employees Jan 28. |
| Man held for acid attack in Agra | | | Agra, Feb 3 (IANS) A 28-year-old man was arrested here for an acid attack on a girl that she escaped but critically injured her father, police said Monday. An first information report was registered against Yogesh Pandit Sunday who allegedly threw acid on a girl who managed to escape but badly burnt her father, who had to be hospitalised. |
| China's unwanted babies once mostly girls, now mostly sick, disabled | |  By Li Hui and Ben Blanchard TIANJIN, China (Reuters) - Fangfang was just a few days old when she was abandoned on a near freezing New Year's Day in north China. "They will only provide more accurate numbers." Welfare experts and officials note that China has various charity funds and government health insurance schemes to help the sick and disabled.
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