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Woman gang-raped in West Bengal, 2 held

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A woman was allegedly gang-raped brutally in a secluded area in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, police said on Sunday.

“The homemaker of Madhyapara area was alone when two persons, Parimal Rai and Ratnu Munda, took her away and raped her on Saturday night. Today we received a complaint and based on the victim’s statement we arrested both of them,” a police officer of Dhupguri police station said.

The woman in her late twenties was admitted to the local hospital with severe injuries.

The police officer said there are reports that the victims was subjected to severe atrocities. “The investigation is going on,” he added.

IANS

400 petrol pumps in Delhi shut as dealers go on strike

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A total of 400 petrol pumps, many with CNG dispensing units, began a day-long strike on Monday in protest against Delhi government’s refusal to reduce VAT on fuels.

The Delhi Petrol Dealers Association (DPDA) said the Delhi government’s inaction was hampering their business as the neighbouring states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh were attracting more consumers after slashing their fuel prices.

Criticising the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party government’s refusal to address the VAT issue making fuel prices costlier in the city, the DPDA said it would also increase pollution in the National Capital Region as the quality of fuel sold in the peripheral states was inferior in quality.

The difference in prices has led to sharp drop of up to 50 to 60 per cent in sale of diesel in Delhi and 25 per cent in petrol in this quarter, DPDA President Nischal Singhania said.

Urging the Delhi government to immediately save the livelihood of employees and owners of petrol pumps of Delhi and check the state’s revenue loss, the petrol dealers body in its statement said commuters must be encouraged to buy Euro VI fuel that is sold in the capital as against Euro V in the adjoining states.

IANS

UP MLC’s wife arrested for killing son

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Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council chairman Ramesh Yadav’s wife Meera Yadav was on Monday arrested for killing her 23-year-old son Abhijit Yadav, police said.

She was detained late on Sunday for interrogation, during which she broke down and accepted strangulating her own son.

Abhijt Yadav was found dead in the official Darulshafa legislators flat on Sunday. Preliminary reports called it a “cardiac arrest”.

Meera Yadav told family members and neighbours that her son had come back drunk late on Saturday. He was restless through the night. She had applied soothing balm on his chest when he complained of pain on his left arm.

He never woke up, she told neighbours.

The son’s body was on its way to the cremation ground when the police intervened after some family friends alleged foul play.

Lucknow’s Senior Superintendent of Police Kalanidhi Naithani ordered an autopsy which confirmed “strangulation” as the cause of death.

Meera Yadav, who is the second wife of Ramesh Yadav, also kept changing her accounts of the tragedy which spiked police suspicion.

Sarvesh Mishra, superintendent of police (SP-East) said the accused told the police that her drunk son misbehaved with her. In a fit of rage, Meera Yadav then strangulated him.

The MLC’s wife had quit her job at the state Tourism Department not long back. She was living at the Darulshafa flat with her two sons Abhishek and Abhijit.

IANS

Pakistan reopens Afghan border crossing

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Pakistan has reopened the friendship gate at the Afghan border in Chaman, resuming trade activities, Nato supplies and transit trade between the two countries, the media reported on Monday.

Pakistan had closed the border at Chaman and Torkham on Friday in connection with parliamentary elections in Afghanistan that had suspended trade activities in the border town Chaman and Spin Boldak, reports Dawn news.

Hundreds of trucks carrying Nato supplies and transit trade goods crossed into Afghanistan after reopening of the border on Sunday.

Pakistan had closed the border soon after the Kandahar Police chief, the governor and intelligence chief of Kandahar and a cameraman were killed in the firing in the Governor House.

IANS

Rae Bareli posters call Priyanka ’emotional blackmailer’

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Hundreds of posters terming Priyanka Gandhi Vadra an “emotional blackmailer” were seen on Monday in Rae Bareli, the parliamentary constituency of her mother and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

The posters which literally cropped up all around the Uttar Pradesh town overnight, showed her as “missing”, and said while many tragedies struck the constituency since her last visit, Vadra has not bothered to reach out to the people in the Congress borough where she is seen as her mother’s heir.

In a reference to her last minute visits to Rae Bareli during successive polls and trying to pitch in for her mother by striking the emotional chord of the relationship of the Gandhis with the area, the posters also called her an “emotional blackmailer”.

They said Vadra plays with the sentiments of the Rae Bareli people only to garner votes.

Carrying pictures of Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s sibling the posters also asked her when would she visit Rae Bareli next.

These posters have been plastered on walls on major thoroughfares, markets, public places like Tripula square and Hardaspur.

They questioned her absence after major train accidents, including at Harchandpur, and the NTPC blast in Unchahar.

They posed queries whether she would be present in her mothers constituency on Eid since she has not turned up on Hindu festivals like Navratri, Durga Puja and Dusshehra.

Congress leaders and workers called the posters yet another “dirty trick” by opponents who were petrified by the “comeback prospects of the Gandhis and the party to power in 2019 (after the Lok Sabha polls)”.

District Congress chief V.K. Shukla said the party will give a befitting reply to such slandering. For now they would ask the district administration to act against people involved in putting up the posters, Shukla said.

IANS

UN’s global war on drugs a failure: Report

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The UN’s drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), which has called for a major rethinking of global policy on illegal narcotics.

The report released on Sunday claimed that UN efforts to eliminate the illegal drug market by 2019 through a “war on drugs” approach has had scant effect on global supply while having negative effects on health, human rights, security and development, CNN reported.

According to the report, drug-related deaths have increased by 145 per cent over the last decade, with more than 71,000 overdose deaths in the US in 2017 alone.

At least 3,940 people were executed for drug offenses around the world over the last 10 years, while drug crackdowns in the Philippines resulted in around 27,000 extrajudicial killings.

The IDPC, a network of 177 national and international NGOs concerned with drug policy and drug abuse, is urging the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs to consider a different approach to narcotics strategy for the next 10 years in the run-up to a March 2019 summit in Vienna, Austria.

“This report is another nail in the coffin for the war on drugs,” said Ann Fordham, the Executive Director of IDPC, in a statement.

“The fact that governments and the UN do not see fit to properly evaluate the disastrous impact of the last ten years of drug policy is depressingly unsurprising.”

The UN was not immediately available for comment on the report, reports CNN.

In 2017, Mexico, for example, recorded its most murderous year on record due to soaring levels of drug-related violence.

As previously reported by CNN, the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography revealed that there were 31,174 homicides over the course of the year — an increase of 27 per cent over 2016.

IANS

Light intensity quake hits Himachal

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Mild tremors were felt in Himachal Pradesh on Monday. No damage or casualty was reported.

“An earthquake measuring three on the Richter scale were felt for a few seconds at 9.11 a.m.,” regional Meteorological Office Director Manmohan Singh told IANS. People rushed out of their houses.

The epicentre of the quake was in Kinnaur district, bordering Tibet in China.

IANS

8 killed in Maharashtra accident

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At least eight passengers were killed when a private bus in which they were travelling rammed into a stationery truck on the Pune-Aurangabad highway, on Monday, an official said.

According to Ahmednagar Police Control official Riyad Inamdar, the incident occurred at around 5.20 a.m. when the bus was speeding from Aurangabad to Pune.

When the bus approached the Wadegavhan area, it suddenly lost control and banged into the truck parked beside the highway.

The victims died on the spot while over a dozen injured have been rushed to hospitals in Shirur, Inamdar said.

 

IANS

Value buying, rupee lift equity indices; banking stocks gain

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Broadly positive Asian markets, along with a stable rupee and value buying pushed the key domestic equity indices higher during Monday’s morning trade session.

In addition, healthy buying was seen in interest rate sensitive stocks like banks, auto and capital goods.

Besides, the Indian rupee strengthened to around 73.28 to a US dollar from its Monday’s open of 73.41 to a greenback. It had closed last Friday’s session at 73.33 against the dollar.

There was a slight rise in global crude oil prices to around $80-per-barrel and other geo-political concerns capped gains.

Index-wise, the S&P BSE Sensex opened at 34,689.39 points from its previous close of 34,315.63 points on last Friday.

Around 9.30 a.m., it traded at 34,450.89 points higher by 135.26 points or 0.39 per cent.

Similarly, the Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) made gains during the morning trade session.

The NSE Nifty50 traded at 10,341 points during the morning trade session, down 37.45 points and 0.36 per cent.

IANS

Floor collapse injures 30 in US varsity

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At least 30 people have been injured when a floor collapsed during a party held at the Clemson University in the US’ South Carolina, police said.

The Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity annual homecoming party was just getting started on Sunday when the floor gave way, the BBC reported.

Some of the attendees broke bones as they fell from the common area into the basement of the off-campus apartment complex. Videos of the collapse posted online showed graphic footage.

Emergency responders were at the scene in minutes, and 23 people were taken to hospital.

“The beat was about to drop and literally the whole floor collapsed,” student Larissa Stone told Greenville News. “People are hurt. People are bleeding. I had blood on my sneakers. It was really bad.”

“Everybody was jumping, next thing you know… I can feel myself falling,” attendee Leroy Pearson told news channel WSPA-TV. “I blacked out, and there (were) girls everywhere with blood all over their face.”

The “Clemson Student Affairs is working to determine how many of those injured were Clemson students, and to notify other institutions if one or more of their students were in attendance”, the varsity statement said.

The building where the party took place at the Woodlands of Clemson apartment complex was reportedly built in 2004.

IANS

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