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| U.S. prosecutors again diplomat Khobragade | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A grand jury in New York has returned a new indictment against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud, two days after a U.S. judge dismissed a similar indictment because she had diplomatic immunity. Khobragade's arrest last December and a subsequent strip search drew outrage in India, causing a major diplomatic rift between the United States and India. Khobragade's lawyer, Daniel Arshack, did not immediately comment on the new indictment, which effectively returns the case to where it was before Wednesday's dismissal.
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| 7,000 kg ammonium nitrate seized in Rajasthan | | | Jaipur, March 15 (IANS) About 7,000 kg of explosive ammonium nitrate that was to be used for blasting in in illegal mining in Rajasthan's Alwar was seized Friday, police said. Superintendent of Police Vikas Kumar said that the seizure was made from Chopanaki area in Alwar district, some 150 km from Jaipur. "Illegal mining is a major issue in some parts of the district and police have launched a campaign against it. On a tip-off, we raided an abandoned makeshift house from where we recovered 140 bags of ammonium nitrate weighing around 7,000 kg. |
| Carcasses of 14 peacocks recovered in Ajmer | | | Jaipur, March 14 (IANS) Carcasses of 14 peacocks have been recovered in Rajasthan's Ajmer district, wildlife activists said Friday. He added that peacocks are protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and poachers can be sentenced to imprisonment with a fine. |
| Pistorius' watch vanished while police combed house, court told | |  By John Mkhize PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African police faced further embarrassment at the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius on Friday when it emerged that a valuable watch had vanished from the crime scene and a ballistic expert had handled the athlete's gun without gloves. The Olympic and Paralympic 'Blade Runner' denies the premeditated murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year, saying he shot her in a tragic accident after mistaking her for a night-time intruder. On day 10 of the trial, Colonel Schoombie Van Rensburg, the first policeman to arrive at Pistorius' home in an upmarket Pretoria estate, expressed his anger at forensic blunders but had his own work called into question by the defence. Van Rensburg said the missing watch was one of eight found in the house.
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| Kashmir youth killed in security force firing, probe ordered | | | Srinagar, March 14 (IANS) A youth was killed in firing by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district Friday after a clash with protesters, police said. The youth, identified as Farhat Ahmad Dar, was killed when an agitating mob tried to torch a police vehicle that was trying to chase away protesters in Naidkhai area of Bandipora during stone pelting during protests after the Friday prayers. The Bandipora district magistrate ordered a magisterial probe into the incident. "A time-bound magisterial probe has been ordered by district magistrate into the death of Farhat Ahmad Dar, son of Gulam Rasool Dar, resident of Shahgund Naidkhai, in a firing incident today (Friday)," a senior state government official said here. |
| Kumar Vishwas's cavalcade attacked in Amethi | | | Lucknow, March 14 (IANS) The motorcade of AAP leader Kumar Amethi was attacked late Friday in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi, police said. AAP blamed the Congress for the attack. Vishwas, a poet-turned-politician, alleged that many Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers were beaten up and many vehicles in his cavalcade damaged by Congress workers. The incident took place when Vishwas, who is taking on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi from the Amethi parliamentary constituency, was on way to Sinduriya village. |
| 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. |
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