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| Man saying he was shot by ex-NFL star is shot again | | | A man who said former New England Patriots football star Aaron Hernandez had shot him in the face a year ago was shot again late on Sunday, Connecticut police said. Alexander Bradley was shot several times in the leg during a fight at a Hartford night club, Lieutenant Brian Foley of the Hartford Police Department said on Monday. Bradley had filed a civil lawsuit in June against former National Football League star Hernandez, who he said shot him in the face in Florida in February 2013 after a late-night dispute. Hernandez has been in jail since June, awaiting trial on murder charges in the death of Odin Lloyd, whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park near the football star's home in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. |
| Britain bars entry to French comedian accused of anti-Semitism | |  Britain said on Monday it had banned a French comedian accused of anti-Semitism, saying he would not be allowed to enter the country for public policy and security reasons. Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, 46, has been repeatedly fined for "hate speech" in his native France where local authorities in several towns have banned his shows as a threat to public order. Dieudonne, who has said he is not anti-Semitic, had planned to visit Nicolas Anelka, a striker at England's West Bromwich Albion football club who is at the centre of a race row. "The Home Secretary will seek to exclude an individual from the UK if she considers that there are public policy or public security reasons to do so." (Reporting by Andrew Osborn and William James;
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| SC urged to direct government to protect youths from northeast | | | New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) In the wake of frequent attacks on young people from the northeastern states, a plea was submitted in the Supreme Court Monday seeking its directions to the central government to protect the life and liberty of the youths. Three lawyers Ranbir Yadav, Abhishek Garg and Baban Kumar in their plea sought direction to the central government to take "urgent and immediate" steps to ensure the protection of youth from verbal and physical violence. |
| Hizbul-linked drug module busted in Delhi, three held | | | New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) A drug trafficking racket, associated with terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, has been busted here and three traffickers were arrested with 10 kg heroin valued at Rs.35 crore, police said Monday. One of the three arrested men was identified as police constable Khurshid Alam from Jammu and Kashmir. Alam and two men from Tamil Nadu - B. Ganesh and M. Senthil - were arrested with the heroin from Nizamuddin area in south Delhi. Police said the drug syndicate's kingpin is based in Kuwait and is known as Ali. |
| Rahul assures action over Arunachal student's death | | | New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Monday promised strict action over the death of a 19-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh. Gandhi told a students' group that he will write to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on the issue. "We submitted a memorandum to Rahul Gandhi and he assured that he will forward the same to the home minister," J.T. Tagam, former president of the Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union, told IANS. Nido Tania, son of Arunachal Pradesh Congress legislator Nido Pavitra, died Jan 30 after being allegedly beaten up by two shopkeepers following a row over his appearance and clothing in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar I market. |
| One-day police custody for man who molested Manipuri women | | | New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) A local court Monday sent a man, accused of molesting two Manipuri women here, to one day in police custody. Seeking remand of accused Prem Chand, police told the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Dheeraj Mor that the complainants also accused the men involved in the case of stealing a mobile phone from them. The magistrate remanded Chand to one day's police custody after police said he was required for further interrogation and to trace the other accused. Chand's counsel Vinod Gupta opposed the police plea, saying that stealing of a mobile phone was not mentioned in the complaint lodged Jan 24, and that the women disclosed it later in another supplementary complaint to implicate his client. |
| Thai protesters move to 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. "Suthep's movement is now crumbling, but it still has powerful unseen backers," said Chris Baker, a historian and prominent Thailand scholar. The demonstrators blocked balloting in a fifth of the country's constituencies on Sunday, saying Yingluck must resign and make way for an appointed "people's council" to overhaul a political system they say has been taken hostage by her billionaire brother and former premier, Thaksin Shinawatra.
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| Chandigarh police arrest fraudster | | | Chandigarh, Feb 3 (IANS) After a free run over the past few months duping people in Haryana posing first as an army officer and later as a senior policeman, a youth landed in the Chandigarh police's net, officials said Monday. Police booked imposter Ravi Kant for cheating and fraud, as he had duped people in Haryana by promising to get them jobs in the army and the police, police investigations have revealed. Kant, posing as an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from Delhi, was arrested by the Chandigarh police Saturday after a trap was laid. An officer of the Chandigarh police, whom the fraudster had recently met, became suspicious of his claims. |
| Couple strips in front of Rashtrapati Bhavan | | | New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) A couple in their 30s stripped in front of Rashtrapati Bhavan Monday after they were denied entry to the president's house, police said. The couple - identified as Prabhat and Anuradha - went to the main gate of Rashtrapati Bhavan and demanded a meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee. When security personnel asked for the reason, they failed to say why. "The couple then took off their clothes," a police officer told IANS. |
| 'Probe fake certificates to unauthorised colonies' | | | New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) The Delhi government Monday sent a letter to President Pranab Mukherjee asking for strict action as per the law in the matter of the alleged fake provisional certificates issued to unauthorised colonies. |
| HC seeks report on Arunachal student's death | | | New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday sought a report from the central and Delhi governments and the police on the death here last week of an 18-year-old college student from Arunachal Pradesh, saying "it is a serious issue". A division bench of Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw took suo moto cognisance of the incident and said "Delhi is a capital for all, not for a few people", and issued notice returnable Feb 5. Nido Tania, son of Arunachal Pradesh Congress legislator Nido Pavitra, was allegedly beaten up mercilessly by shopkeepers Jan 29 in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar market following a quarrel over his appearance and clothing. |
| Clashes in Kenya port for second day over mosque raid - witness | |  Muslim youths angry about a police raid on a mosque used by firebrand preachers in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa clashed with police for a second day on Monday, a Reuters witness said. Smashing Islamist recruitment networks among its Muslim minority has become a priority for Kenya, a country still reeling from a September raid by Somali militants on a luxury shopping mall in Nairobi. Kenyan police stormed the Masjid Mussa mosque in the city's run-down Majengo neighbourhood on Sunday after a tip that Muslim youths were being radicalised by Islamists who support al Shabaab, a Somalia militant group allied with al Qaeda.
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| Student detained after killing two in Moscow school shooting | |  A Moscow high-school student shot a teacher and a police officer dead and held more than 20 other students hostage in a classroom on Monday before he was disarmed and detained, police said, just days before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics. In a rare school shooting in Russia, the attacker entered his school in northern Moscow carrying a rifle and held students and a teacher hostage in a biology classroom, police in the capital said. "One policeman was fatally wounded during the operation and died in hospital, and a teacher at School No. 263 was also killed," he said.
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