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| German student molested, robbed in Delhi | | | New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) A 23-year-old management student from Germany was molested and robbed by two auto-rickshaw drivers here last week, police said Friday. The incident occurred when the student was returning to her home in south Delhi from Barakhamba Road area of central Delhi March 8. According to her complaint, the victim, who is pursuing her internship in Delhi, said she took an auto around 10 p.m. from near Max Muller Bhawan to reach her rented accommodation in Greater Kailash. On the way, the auto-rickshaw driver halted the vehicle on the pretext of searching for some tools which, he said, were kept beneath the rear seat and then began touching her indecently. |
| Toll rises in Mumbai building collapse | | | Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) Seven people were killed and four injured when a seven-storeyed unoccupied building collapsed here Friday morning and the debris fell on an adjoining slum, officials said. The deceased have been identified as Louis G.N. Bentor, Sudha Sridharan, 32, Chandaben Patel, 50, Sundrabai R. Pardhi, 70, Rajshree A. Pardhi,32, Aditya A. Pardhi, 10, and eight-year old Ayush A. Pardhi, according to BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) control room. Three of the four injured - Sita Kesarkar, 60, Akshay Kesarkar, 18, and Rohini Jagtap, 47 - were admitted to a hospital. |
| Hugely popular Jakarta governor named as Indonesia presidential candidate | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's main opposition PDI-P party named Jakarta governor Joko Widodo as its presidential candidate on Friday, the man widely seen as a shoo-in to be next leader of the world's third-largest democracy. By choosing him, former president and party chief Megawati Sukarnoputri has also likely given a significant boost to her Indonesian Democratic Party's (PDI-P) chances in the April 9 parliamentary election. The presidential election is on July 9. She has kept the country on tenterhooks for weeks over whether she would put aside her own ambitions to return to the presidential palace or back the governor, popularly known as Jokowi.
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| Court picks holes in Tejpal's CCTV defence | | | Panaji, March 14 (IANS) Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal's defence - the CCTV footage outside the elevator - does not hold water, the Bombay High Court bench said here Friday while rejecting his bail plea in a sexual assault case. Justice Utkarsh Bakre said at this stage the CCTV footage "does not help the applicant prove his innocence". "Suffice it to say, that the CCTV footage prima facie does not help the applicant prove his innocence, since it did not cover the incident inside the lift," Bakre's order reads. Tejpal, who has been accused of raping a then junior employee in an elevator, has claimed in his earlier statements to the media that the CCTV footage alone was enough to prove his innocence. |
| 1,000 litres hooch seized in Bengal: poll panel | | | Kolkata, March 14 (IANS) The Election Commission Friday here said the excise department officials have seized around 1,000 litres of hooch in West Bengal's Hooghly district. |
| Nearly two dozen killed in attacks across Pakistan despite talks | |  By Jibran Ahmed and Gul Yousafzai PESHAWSAR/QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Attacks in the volatile Pakistani cities of Peshawar and Quetta killed a total of 19 people on Friday, frustrating hopes of a lasting peace deal with insurgents fighting to topple the government. In Peshawar, a sprawling city on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a police vehicle, killing at least nine bystanders including a woman and a child, police said. In Quetta, in the unruly province of Baluchistan, at least 10 people were killed when a motorcycle laden with explosives exploded near a college in the city centre, police said. The attacks took place as the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tried to revive a stalled peace process with the Pakistani Taliban militants in order to hammer out a permanent ceasefire agreement and end years of violence.
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| 2G case: Order reserved on Loop's plea | | | New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) A court here Friday reserved its order on a plea filed by Loop Telecom seeking directions for referring the matter to the Lok Adalat. The order came after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) filed their reply on the matter. Loop Telecom Ltd filed a plea seeking the court's direction for referring the matter to the Lok Adalat, a system of alternative dispute resolution that focuses on compromise between two parties for settlement, saying the offences alleged against the firm were compoundable. The recording of the statements of the accused in the 2G spectrum case against Essar and Loop Telecom promoters will commence from April 4. |
| Three get jail term in Odisha nun's gang rape | | | Bhubaneswar, March 14 (IANS) A court in Odisha Friday sentenced the main accused in the 2008 gang rape of a catholic nun to 11 years in prison and two others to 26 months, a lawyer said. District and Sessions Judge Gyanaranjan Purohit at Cuttack, 26 km from here, held Mitu Patnaik, Gajendra Digal and Saroj Badhai guilty, the nun's counsel Manas Ranjan Singh told IANS. The judge sentenced Patnaik, the prime accused, to 11 years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs.10,000 on him. The court also sentenced the other two accused, Gajendra Digal and Saroj Badhai, to 26 months in jail for outraging the modesty of the victim, he said. |
| Two women killed in Mumbai building collapse | | | Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) Two women were killed and four other people were injured when a seven-storeyed unoccupied building collapsed here Friday morning and the debris fell on an adjoining slum, officials said. The dead women have been identified as Sudha Sridharan, 32, and Chandaben Patel, 50, according to BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) control room. Three of the four injured - Sita Kesarkar, 60, Akshay Kesarkar, 18, and Rohini Jagtap, 47 - were admitted to a hospital. According to Mumbai fire brigade officials, a large portion of the dilapidated building, Aaraam Society, fell on an adjoining slum area and besides the dead and the injured some more people are believed to be trapped under the debris. |
| France's Sarkozy wins battle to pull secret recordings | |  A French court on Friday ordered a news website to withdraw recordings an adviser secretly took of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy during his 2012 election campaign. In an emergency ruling sought by Sarkozy, who is expected by many to enter the next presidential contest in 2017, the Paris court also ordered the adviser, Patrick Buisson, to make a damages downpayment of 10,000 eurosto the conservative leader and wife Carla Bruni. Revelations in early March that Buisson, once part of Sarkozy's inner circle, had recorded hours of talks with the conservative leader and his entourage, caused uproar in the opposition UMP party ahead of late March local elections. The Paris court ordered right-wing news website Atlantico.fr to pull postings of the recordings rapidly or face daily fines.
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