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Nepal Maoists set ablaze nine Indian vehicles

          Kathmandu: Maoist rebels set ablaze nine Indian vehicles, including eight tankers, and opened fire at three Indian nationals early this morning, hours after they bombed the house of Home Minister Kamal Thapa in Nepal. The rebels fired at three occupants of an Indian truck before setting afire the vehicle in Rupandehi district, 300 km west of Kathmandu, the police said. The truck owner, driver and the cleaner suffered bullet injuries when they were attacked by the rebels while they were unloading goods from Rajasthan on a highway at Parsari village at 5.30 am, an official at the District Police Office said. The injured were admitted to Bhairahawa Medical College and they are said to be out of danger. Police have launched a hunt to nab those involved in the attack.

Two Chhota Rajan aides held in Delhi (Go To Top)

          New Delhi: The police arrested two associates of a dreaded underworld don in Delhi on Sunday. Police officials said Anil Sadashiv Nandoskar and Dhondu Ram Chander Kokre, hitmen of gangster Chhota Rajan, were apprehended from a residential colony after a tip-off. "We had information that two hitmen of Chhota Rajan gang are in Delhi. We got information that they will meet one of their contacts in Lakshmibai Nagar. We laid a trap for them and arresed two people," said Ashok Chand, Deputy Commissioner of Police. Some pistols of Chinese make and live cartridges were recovered from them. Chand also said both the associates, who joined the Chhota Rajan gang in 1987, were wanted in several cases of murder and extortion. Rajan, who has rivalry with Karachi-based Dawood Ibrahim, a gangster wanted by India, made a mysterious escape from a Thai hospital where he was undergoing treatment while under detention. Rajan faces 17 counts of murder and other charges.

UP Congress leader shot dead (Go To Top)

          Lucknow: A Congress leader was gunned down by unidentified assailants in Narghat area of Mirzapur district in UP, a police spokesman said in Lucknow on Sunday. Shamsul Ali, the city Congress president, was shot dead from close range by the assailants on Saturday while he was standing near a betel shop, the spokesman said. A manhunt has been launched to nab the culprits, he added.

Artists paint Tagore portrait in blood (Go To Top)

          Chennai: Anguished at the theft of the Nobel medal of litterateur Rabindranath Tagore, an artist in Chennai on Sunday painted a portrait of the late poet with blood donated by 30 students. The blood collected from the students of art and sculpture of the Fine Arts College, was used to finish the potrait in just 20 minutes by Shihan Hussaini. 'Nothing is lost in our heart - Rabindranth' - the footnote said. Hussaini said the painting was a tribute to the great poet who still rules the hearts of people. "Artists from all over the south and art lovers decided we need to express our anguish straight from our heart by drawing blood from each one of us and sketching a big protrait of Rabindranath Tagore. Thereby remembering Tagore again and telling to the world that though the medallions may be lost we have not lost him from our hearts," he said.

          Thieves stole the medal last Thursday from a museum in a university, which Tagore founded in 1921, at Shantiniketan some 150 km north of Kolkata. The thieves also stole Tagore's pocket watch, his father's gold ring and some other items from a glass-case in the museum. Though a federal probe has begun in the case, no breakthrough has come even after eight days of the crime. Tagore, a cultural icon for the 80 million people in West Bengal, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 for Gitanjali, a compilation of poems. He died in 1941 at the age of 80.