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| Policeman injured in guerrilla attack in Kashmir town | | | Srinagar, April 8 (IANS) Guerrillas attacked a policeman Tuesday morning in Kashmir's Anantnag town and snatched away his rifle. Police said guerrillas fired at a constable in Lal Chowk area of Anantnag, 54 km from Srinagar. "The injured constable has been taken to Srinagar for treatment," the officer said. Sources in the town told IANS the guerrillas took away the constable's rifle after the attack. |
| Freed Vietnamese anti-govt activist arrives in United States | |  REUTERS - A dissident jailed for criticising Vietnam's leadership has been freed and is now in Washington, family friends and a U.S. official said on Tuesday, a rare concession by a country long criticised for its human rights record. French-educated lawyer Cu Huy Ha Vu left Vietnam on Sunday with his wife after his release three years into a 10-year sentence of both jail and house arrest for conducting "anti-state propaganda". "We welcome the decision by Vietnamese authorities to release prisoner of conscience Dr Cu Huy Ha Vu," said Spencer Cryder, a spokesman for the U.S embassy in Hanoi. His release comes as pressure mounts on Vietnam, which won a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2013, to stop intimidating, arresting and jailing critics, bloggers and other dissidents.
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| BSP leader in UP found with Rs 4 crore cash, booked | | | Lucknow, April 8 (IANS) A BSP leader was booked after a flying squad of the Election Commission found him possessing Rs.4 crore in cash, officials said Tuesday. The seizure was made from Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and property dealer Nadeem, who lives in Shastri Nagar locality in Meerut city. |
| Two guerrillas, one army officer killed in Kashmir | | | Srinagar, April 8 (IANS) At least three two guerrillas and an army officer were killed and four policemen injured in gunfight in Kashmir's Kupwara district. "Two militants have been killed in the Zunrishi (Chowkibal) encounter that started Monday evening," a senior police officer told IANS. "One junior commissioned officer has also been killed in the operation and four policemen, including a sub-inspector and three constables, were injured during the operation." Although the firing has stopped in the area, the operation is still going on as searches are being carried out to secure the place for the civilians, said the officer. The identify of the slain guerrillas has been established, the officer said. |
| Decades after genocide, Congo struggles to dislodge Rwanda rebels | |  By Peter Jones TONGO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Twenty years after the genocide in Rwanda, a rebel group founded by ethnic extremists who took part in that slaughter still prowls the lush hills of neighbouring eastern Congo, defying a renewed threat by the army and U.N. peacekeepers to dislodge it. The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) sits at the heart of two decades of war and instability in Democratic Republic of Congo, in which millions of people have died from violence, hunger and disease. Founded by members of the Interahamwe Hutu militia that organised the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994, the FDLR's ranks have dwindled over the last decade to less than 2,000 rag-tag fighters. But its presence in eastern Congo remains an irritant to Rwanda's Tutsi leadership, which has held power since the genocide, and has prompted years of meddling by Kigali in its larger neighbour, fuelling instability and bloodshed.
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| Gloves off as BJP woos the Hindu vote in northern heartland | |  By Sharat Pradhan MUZAFFARNAGAR (Reuters) - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), tipped to form the next government, appears to be returning to its Hindu nationalist roots at the start of a five-week general election, raking up divisive issues and using strong language in riot-hit Muzaffarnagar. Criss-crossing the country for months before the first phase of voting began on Monday, the BJP and its candidate for prime minister, Narendra Modi, had mainly campaigned on a ticket of better governance, economic development and job creation. But just hours after voting started, the election commission demanded an explanation from Modi's chief aide Amit Shah, accusing him of incendiary speeches in towns where dozens of people, mostly Muslims, were killed in Hindu-Muslim riots last year. When justice is not done to all the parties and the action is one-sided action, then the public is forced to come out in the streets," Shah said in Muzaffarnagar last week, according to a transcript provided by the commission.
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