14 killed in Leh
road mishap
Leh
(Ladakh): Fourteen persons, including 11 women and 3
men were killed while others 16 were injured in a tragic
road accident on Leh-Kargil National Highway this evening.
The mishap occurred at 8.00 p.m. on Wednesday According
to reports, General Reserved Engineering Force, GREF (Border
Roads Organization), trucks carrying more then 45 labourers
most of them were women coming back from their work from
Nemo Village collided with roadside wall and fell down almost
30 metres down in the stream near Ladakh Scout regimental
centre at Phyang, 15 kilometres away from Leh.
Jharkhand Home Minister escapes landmine
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Ranchi:
Ranchi Police have detected a landmine near the site
of a football match where Sudesh Mahto, Home Minister of
Jharkhand was the chief guest. The match was scheduled to
be played at the Rangamati playground on Wednesday afternoon.The
landmine was discovered at 11 a.m., just three hours before
the match. Mahto is the second Jharkhand minister to have
escaped extremists attack. In September last year Rural
Development and Transport Minister Enos Ekka had claimed
he was the target when a couple of personnel of his escort
party suffered wounds when a bomb went off in Simdega.
Body
found dumped near Union Minister's residence (Go
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New
Delhi: The body of a fair complexioned, well- dressed
26-year old man was found near the Union Tourism Minister
Renuka Chowdhury's official residence on Thursday morning.
Police sources said that the body was found lying in the
back lane of Union Tourism Minister Renuka Chowdhury's official
residence at 76, Lodhi Estate here. The body had a bullet
wound on the left side below the chest. "The incident has
happened elsewhere and the body was thrown here later,"
the sources said. The age of man would be about 26 years,
had fair complexion and was well-dressed when the body was
found, sources said. The youth appears to be a professional
working late hours in the night. The body had been sent
for post-mortem and the investigations were on, said the
police official of Tughlaq Road police station.
Four
Naga militants killed in Manipur (Go
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Imphal:
Four members of National Socialist Council of Nagaland
- Khaplang faction (NSCN-K) were killed in an encounter
with Central Paramilitary Forces at Kalapahar area in Senapati
district of Manipur, late last night. According to the officials,
the incident took place when personnel of 14th Assam Rifles
who were spread in a hilly area near Kalapahar, about 30
km from here, started their search operation for the militants.
In the final stage of the search operation, the militants
started firing on personnel. In the gun-battle, four Naga
militants were killed. Security forces recovered arms including
AK-47 rifles from the militants. The bodies of militants
were sent to the Regional Institute of Medical Science Hospital
for post mortem. Reports from the district said, the Assam
Rifles personnel are continuing with the search operation
to locate other members of NSCN-K, who reportedly ran away.
Raped
South African model identifies her attackers (Go
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Mumbai:
The South African NRI model who was raped for two days
last week, identified the two accused in an identification
parade conducted by the Mumbai Police here on Thursday.
The accused, Suresh Krishnani and Sunil Morpani, whom a
local court has remanded to judicial custody till January
six, were identified in the identification parade conducted
by the police after securing their judicial remand. The
police also questioned owner of the three-star Bawa International
hotel where the victim was allegedly raped on December 28
and 29. Police sources said that samples of fingerprints
from the hotel room and the car in which the accused had
allegedly took the victim to an unknown place and raped
her, had been taken for test. The South Africa model had
filed an FIR (First Information Report) complaining that
she was drugged in a suburban pub and raped by two youths
over two days, last Wednesday and Thursday. The 27-year-old
model alleged in her FIR that on December 27, she had gone
to meet the owner of the Bawa International hotel, Govind
Singh Bawa, near Santa Cruz domestic airport at around 10
p.m. (IST) on his invitation. After meeting Bawa, she went
to Avalon pub in the same hotel where she spent half-an-hour.
From there she returned to the hotel's restaurant and had
drinks and ordered for dinner. While in midway through her
dinner, she went to the toilet and after returning, she
sipped her remaining drink and started feeling giddy. Acting
on the complaint, the police on Saturday held the two suspects,
Sunil Morpani and Suresh Krishnani, and conducted the identification
parade today to verify the suspects.
Sharon
suffers massive stroke (Go
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Tel
Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has suffered
a massive stroke and has been rushed into surgery. Sharon,
77, was unconscious and has experienced cerebral bleeding.
"The PM is undergoing surgery but is in a stable condition.
When the operation ends, we will issue a comprehensive statement
about his condition. Until then I suggest we don't engage
in speculation," said Rannan Gissin, Sharon's aide. Sharon
was at his Sycamore ranch when he complained about feeling
unwell and was rushed to the hospital. This is Sharon's
second stroke in just over two weeks. He was scheduled to
undergo angioplasty at the same hospital on Thursday to
block a hole in his heart, discovered during the stroke
he suffered last month. Sharon's deputy Ehud Olmert has
assumed the Prime Minister's responsibilities as a result
of Sharon's illness.