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| BSP MP Dhananjay Singh gets bail to contest polls | | | New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday granted eight days temporary bail to BSP MP Dhananjay Singh so that he could file his nomination papers from Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency. |
| Kejriwal meets attackers, asks police to catch masterminds | | | New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday reached out to the two men who had attacked him here, presenting them flowers, and told police to quickly trace the masterminds behind the twin attacks. Accompanied by party colleague Manish Sisodia, Kejriwal called on auto-rickshaw driver Lali and 19-year-old Abdul Wahid at their homes. I consider him (Kejriwal) as a god," Lali told the media later, a day after he gave a stinging slap to Kejriwal. |
| Mamata shares dais with murder accused party leaders, faces flak | | | Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday found herself in yet another controversy after she shared dais with controversial party leaders Anubrata Mandal and Monirul Islam - both facing murder charges and infamous for hate speeches. The court has instituted a special investigation team to probe the charges against Mandal who had asked partymen to "burn down the houses of party dissidents and hurl bombs at police if they prevented". While the court had lambasted the Banerjee administration for its failure to act against Mandal, the Election Commission has show-caused him for the hate speeches. Islam, Trinamool member of assembly from Labhpur in Birbhum district during the rural polls in the state last year had publicly threatened to decapitate a Congress leader. |
| Twenty hurt at Pennsylvania high school after stabbing spree | |  REUTERS - Twenty students were injured after a stabbing attack, apparently by a male student, at a Pennsylvania high school on Wednesday, and four of the victims were flown to area hospitals, officials said. The incident occurred at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, about 20 miles east of Pittsburgh, county emergency management officials told reporters. "All elementary schools are canceled, the middle school and high school students are secure." (Reporting by Jonathan Allen;
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| Pistorius forced to look at "exploded" head of girlfriend | |  By Joe Brock PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African prosecutor forced Oscar Pistorius on Wednesday to look at a forensic photograph of the head of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after it was destroyed by a gunshot fired by the Olympic and Paralympic track star. In a dramatic opening to his cross-examination of Pistorius, prosecutor Gerrie Nel made him say that he had killed Steenkamp then later confronted him with the photograph showing the side and back of her skull matted with blood and brains. "Take responsibility for what you have done," Nel said, drawing gasps from the public gallery and causing Pistorius to bury his head in his hands in the witness stand, rock from side to side and weep. The double amputee sprinter, once revered across the world for his triumph over adversity, faces life in prison if convicted in the Pretoria High Court of the murder of Steenkamp, a 29-year-old law graduate and model.
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| Separatists build barricades in east Ukraine, Kiev warns of force | |  By Thomas Grove LUHANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists reinforced barricades around the state security building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk on Wednesday and called on President Vladimir Putin for help after the government warned it could use force to restore order. But protesters were also engaged in talks to ease the standoff, which Kiev has said could provide a pretext for a Russian invasion, and lawmakers from eastern Ukraine proposed an amnesty for protesters to defuse tension. The former KGB headquarters is one of three government buildings seized this week in eastern Ukraine by protesters demanding regional referendums on independence from Kiev, like the one in Crimea that led to its annexation by Russia.
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| Get to masterminds of attacks, Kejriwal tells police | | | New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday told Delhi Police to track down those masterminding attacks on him, and reiterated his refusal to accept the security cover he is entitled to. Kejriwal told the media that he was not upset with the auto-rickshaw driver, Lali, who slapped him Tuesday or the 19-year-old unemployed Muslim man, Abdul Wahid, who punched him last week. |
| Four drown as car falls into Teesta in Bengal | | | Siliguri, April 9 (IANS) Four people drowned when the car they were travelling in fell into the Teesta river in West Bengal's Darjeeling district Wednesday. |
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