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Gunmen kill radio reporter in northern Philippines

June 17, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

(Reuters) – Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a journalist on his way home in the northern Philippines, the second reporter murdered in the country this week, police said on Wednesday.

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Joselito Agustin, 37, a radio reporter in Laoag City in northern Ilocos Norte province, was shot four times early on Wednesday, said Leonardo Espina, national police spokesman.

“We’re still in the process of investigating the motive for the killing,” Espina told reporters, adding authorities want to know whether the crime was work-related.

The Philippines was the deadliest country for journalists in the world in 2009, accounting for 37 of 132 journalists and support staff that were killed or died while working around the world, the International News Safety Institute (INSI) has said.

The journalist deaths last year included at least 30 killed in a massacre of 57 people in southern Maguindanao province in what was the country’s worst election-related violence.

(Reporting by Manny Mogato; Editing by Rosemarie Francisco)

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Gunmen kill radio reporter in northern Philippines

June 17, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

June 16 (Reuters) – Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a journalist on his way home in the northern Philippines, the second reporter murdered in the country this week, police said on Wednesday.

Joselito Agustin, 37, a radio reporter in Laoag City in northern Ilocos Norte province, was shot four times early on Wednesday, said Leonardo Espina, national police spokesman.

“We’re still in the process of investigating the motive for the killing,” Espina told reporters, adding authorities want to know whether the crime was work-related.

The journalist deaths last year included at least 30 killed in a massacre of 57 people in southern Maguindanao province in what was the country’s worst election-related violence. (Reporting by Manny Mogato; Editing by Rosemarie Francisco)

Chinese man sentenced to death for school stabbing

May 15, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A Chinese man who stabbed 29 school children and three teachers has been sentenced to death after a half-day trial, state media reported on Saturday.

Xu Yuyuan, 47, an unemployed local man, was found guilty of attacking a kindergarten in Taixing city in eastern Jiangsu province last month.

A string of attacks at Chinese schools has killed a total of 27 people and injured more than 80 since March, prompting calls for better protection of students and worries about the social malaise that some see underneath China’s rapid economic growth.

Xu told the court that his motive was to “vent his rage against society”, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Premier Wen Jiabao said this week the outburst of violence had deep-seated roots in the country’s social tensions that need addressing.

Officials have vowed to “strike hard” against the problem.

(Reporting by Simon Rabinovitch; Editing by Paul Tait)

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Chinese court sentences attacker who knifed 29 kids to death

May 15, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 15 (ANI): A court in China has sentenced Xu Yuyuan, the man who knifed 29 nursery kids and three teachers, to death.

The Taixing Intermediate Court found Xu guilty of intentional homicide after a half-day open trial, which was attended by 300 people, the Xinhua news agency reports.

Xu told the court that his motive his rage against society. It is not known whether he would appeal the sentencing.

He said he wanted revenge for various business and personal humiliations that he had suffered over the years.

The ruling has sent out a strong statement of zero-tolerance for people who target vulnerable school children.

Xu�s attack was followed by another horrific case of stabbing in China�s Shaanxi province that left several children dead. The attacker committed suicide after the incident. (ANI)

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Asian woman stabs anti-knife campaigner UK MP in London

May 15, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 15 (ANI): In a bizarre attack, prominent anti-knife campaigner MP Stephen Timms was stabbed in the stomach by a young Asian woman. Curiously she was not motivated to commit the act.

The 21- year-old woman, wearing an orange head-scarf nonchalantly plunged the knife twice into Timm�s stomach. Timms was saved by his fearless aide, Andrew Bazeley, who wrestled the woman down and disarmed her.

According to police sources, Timms should thank his lucky stars that the knife missed his vital organs.

“He could easily have been killed. The knife missed his vital organs. But an inch or two either way and it would have been curtains,” The Sun quoted police as saying.

Meanwhile, the authorities have failed to pinpoint the motive for the woman�s attack. According to eyewitnesses, she appeared composed and did not have a history of mental illness.

The Asian community has expressed its support for Timms, a devout Christian. Local community worker Rahman Fazlur described Timms as “an excellent MP” and said he had first-rate relations with the Asian community. (ANI)

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Aus govt putting extra efforts to curb racist attacks: Envoy

May 11, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Australia’s High Commissioner to India, Peter Varghese, on Monday assured that his government is making extra efforts to curb the racist attacks on Indian students.

“We are seeing a reduction in the numbers. I think that reflects the extra efforts we are putting into law enforcement, into policing, tougher sentencing we are imposing and in fact we are prosecuting many more of the perpetrators. So, I hope that this trend continues,” said Varghese, on the sidelines of a function here.

“It’s now quite clear from the prosecutions and the arrests that have taken place that only a small proportion of these attacks can be attributed to a racist motive. When that happens we condemn it and our courts have dealt with the perpetrators very seriously,” he said.

“But we have taken many steps with the central and state government level in Australia to ensure that we properly manage this issue,” he added.

Varghese further said that the heads of all state governments as well as the central government had recently agreed on a set of measures for international students. These included better briefings, better welfare and support services and providing them with avenues for complaints so that any act of violence cannot go unnoticed.

He also talked about setting up a 24-hour resource centre for all international students in Australia.

A recent spate of attacks on Indian students have raised tensions between Australia and India.

Over 100 cases of assault and death have been reported since last year in Australia, especially from Melbourne, which have racial overtones.

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Australian govt. putting extra efforts to curb racist attacks on Indian: Oz envoy

May 11, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 11 (ANI): Australia”s High Commissioner to India, Peter Varghese, on Monday assured that his government is making extra efforts to curb the racist attacks on Indian students.

“We are seeing a reduction in the numbers. I think that reflects the extra efforts we are putting into law enforcement, into policing, tougher sentencing we are imposing and infact we are prosecuting many more of the perpetrators. So, I hope that this trend continues,” said Varghese, on the sidelines of a function here.

“It”s now quite clear from the prosecutions and the arrests that have taken place that only a small proportion of these attacks can be attributed to a racist motive. When that happens we condemn it and our courts have dealt with the perpetrators very seriously,” he said.

“But we have taken many steps with the central and state government level in Australia to ensure that we properly manage this issue,” he added.

He also talked about setting up a 24-hour resource center for all international students in Australia.

A recent spate of attacks on Indian students have raised tensions between Australia and India.

Over 100 cases of assault and death have been reported since last year in Australia, especially from Melbourne, which have racial overtones. (ANI)

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People of Siliguri celebrate Nobel laureate Tagore”s birthday

May 8, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Siliguri, May 8 (ANI): People in Siliguri celebrated the 150th birthday of the Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, by organising a painting exhibition.

A group of local painters on Friday got together and named the exhibition, ”Creation”.

The main aim of the exhibition was to refresh the memories of Tagore and involve the common people with it.

“We, on the occasion of 150 years of Rabindranath Tagore”s birthday, organised this art exhibition named ”Creation”. The motive is to attract and involve the common people passing along the road, so that they feel him close to their hearts,” said Debabrata Nath, who is the Convener of “Creation”.

The organisers also motivated people to paint the portraits of Tagore. Locals were delighted by the initiative.

“I am very happy to see that something like this is happening. I was just passing by and I saw this. Even I contributed a little to this. Being a local, I am very delighted by such a step,” said Depratim Sarkar, a local.

”Creation” came out with paintings by professional artists.

Tagore was an Indian poet, novelist, storywriter, educationist and a philosopher and also won a Nobel Prize in Literature. (ANI)

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Ghost exhibition organised in Bhopal

May 8, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), May 8 (ANI): The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghralaya in Madhya Pradesh”s Bhopal city organised an exhibition on wooden idols of ghosts for the first time.

The idols included animals also.

“I found this exhibition quite exciting as I came to know that in States like Tamil Nadu, ghosts are worshipped. I belong to Uttar Pradesh and nothing like this happens there,” said Gaurav Saxena, a visitor.

“Such artistic forms of idols are being worshipped in southern India. People there worship more than 400 forms of ghosts. This is a unique thing in itself,” he added.

The curator of the museum feels that such an exhibition will not spread superstition, as the ghosts shown are actually gods and goddesses disguised.

“This is a ghost exhibition but one should not consider it to be fearful. Our motive was to showcase the aspect of religious faith attached to it,” said Ashok Tiwari, the curator of the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghralaya (IGRMS).

“The effort is to show that these ghosts are the forms of Gods and Goddesses in disguise,” he added. (ANI)

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Fire engulfs Ajmer battery factory

May 8, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Ajmer (Rajasthan), May 8 (ANI): A massive fire gutted a battery factory in Rajasthan”s Ajmer city.

Around eight to nine fire tenders rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control.

“The factory had a large stock of batteries and raw materials. We don”t know the reason how the factory caught fire, but we reached here with all our fire tender vehicles and even called our staff from their homes. The intensity of the fire was very high but most importantly the fire did not spread to the adjacent areas,” said Fire Officer Habib.

“Our motive was to control the fire as there was a godown of Ajmer gas nearby, where oxygen and carbon dioxide gases are stored. The godown might have caught fire. So our primary job was to cordon off the area and then nearly 8-9 fire tenders helped in bringing the fire under control,” he added.

Raw materials and batteries worth hundreds of thousands were reportedly damaged in the fire that took place on Friday evening. (ANI)

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Prison warden shot dead in Guatemala

May 7, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Guatemala City, May 7 (IANS/EFE) The warden of a maximum security prison in Guatemala’s Santa Rosa province has been gunned down by unidentified assailants, authorities said.

Mario Rene Zuniga, 29, who was appointed a year ago to run the El Boqueron prison, was enjoying a day off, when the attackers shot at him from outside his residence in Jutiapa city Wednesday, interior ministry officials said Thursday.

Zuniga died at the spot of a head wound, they said, adding that the motive for the murder was not known.

In July 2009, the then-deputy warden of El Boqueron, Luis Rene Ibanez, was also shot at while driving. The assailants were armed with AK-47 assault rifles.

El Boqueron prison holds more than 140 people awaiting trial including those involved in murder.

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Life terms for murdering parents

April 17, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A Perth man who claimed he was sleep walking when he murdered both of his parents will spend at least 15 years in jail.

Wearing steel capped boots, Vernon Silich kicked his parents Faye and Robert to death in their Yokine home in April 2008.

Today, Supreme Court Justice John McKechnie said while Silich’s alcohol intoxication provided an explanation for the crime, it did not provide an excuse.

He said the motive for the attack may never be known and sentenced Silich to two terms of life imprisonment.

He will have to serve 15 years before parole can be considered.

Carol Tipping is the mother in law of Robert and Faye Silich’s other son.

She says the murders have had a devastating impact on her son-in-law and her grandchildren.

“Right at the moment there’s not sufficient closure because there could still be an appeal and they’ve got to deal with it. It’s only 15 years and 15 years, it’s a possibility it may not be enough.”

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Heyward murder jury goes out

March 31, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A Supreme Court jury in South Australia has started its deliberations in the murder trial of two men over Glenys Heyward’s death.

Matthew Heyward, 22, and farm worker Jeremy Minter, 28, have been on trial at Mount Gambier for more than six weeks over their alleged involvement in a plan to murder Ms Heyward, three years ago.

Both deny knowing of the plan which was allegedly masterminded by Matthew Heyward’s father Neil, who killed himself while in custody last year.

The trial heard a multi-million-dollar dispute over property was the motive behind Glenys Heyward’s death.

The jury will spend the night in a hotel after deliberating all day.

They were warned to keep themselves isolated from others overnight and they will return to the Supreme Court to continue deliberating on Wednesday.

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Matthew Heyward lacked motive for murder: lawyer

March 26, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A defence lawyer has told the Supreme Court at Mount Gambier that Matthew Heyward had no motive to have murdered his mother.

Grant Algie said Neil Heyward would never have told his son of his plan to kill Glenys Heyward in July 2007.

“The last person he could tell of his true intention was Matthew Heyward because Matthew wouldn’t have brought her there if he had known what was actually going to happen,” he said.

Mr Algie said had Matthew Heyward known, he would never have lied to his mother to deliver her to his father.

Matthew Heyward has told the trial he thought his father just wanted to talk to his mother about a property dispute when he took her to a house at Mount Gambier.

Mr Algie addressed the jury as the six-week trial in South Australia was drawing to a close.

He told the court there was a sense of justice that Neil Heyward had paid for what he had done.

“In June last year Neil Heyward, you might think, was convicted and sentenced for what he had done quite properly by his own hand. He hung (sic) himself at the Port Augusta prison,” he said.

“The tragic wrong that was done to Glenys Heyward has been righted to some extent by Neil Heyward at his own hand.”

‘Cruel, calculating’

Mr Algie said it may never be known what led the cruel, calculating and manipulative man to murder.

“What drove the passions of Neil Heyward to kill his former partner we will never absolutely know,” he said.

“But it’s a fair bet there was an element of greed, maybe jealousy, maybe fear of prosecution for what he had done in relation to sexual activity with an unrelated girl.”

Mr Algie said the youngest Heyward son had no motive for murder.

“Unless they are completely nuts or off the planet or psychotic or something, most people don’t go and commit serious crime unless they have got a reason,” Mr Algie said.

“And there ain’t no crime more serious than this.”

He urged the jury to assess the evidence against his client rather than rely on any wild assumptions or speculation.

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Doctor hacks 8 children to death in China

March 24, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A former doctor with a history of mental illness has hacked eight children to death with a machete and injured five others at a primary school in south-east China, state media reports.

The attacker was identified as Zheng Minsheng, a 41-year-old who had worked at a community clinic until June, Xinhua news agency quoted the local government in the city of Nanping as saying.

Zheng attacked the children at the entrance of the school as they arrived in the morning.

He was eventually restrained by passers-by and school security guards before police arrested him. No motive for the attack was given.

Three children died at the scene and five others succumbed to their injuries in hospital.

The five who survived were said to be in a stable condition, the report said, without giving any ages or other details.

The school in Fujian province, which has more than 2,000 students, was closed after the incident.

Classes were to resume on Wednesday and 20 psychologists had been assigned to help students and teachers, the deputy head of the municipal education bureau said.

- AFP

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Accused murderer Hillier ‘had no alibi’

March 23, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Prosecutors have begun summing up their case against a Canberra man accused of murdering his ex-partner in 2002.

Steven Wayne Hillier is accused of murdering the mother of his two children, Ana Hardwick, and setting the bedroom of her Isabella Plains home alight.

He was found guilty of her murder in 2004 but after years of appeals Hillier is again on trial in the ACT Supreme Court.

In summing up, Director of Public Prosecutions Jon White argued that Hillier had been involved in an intense child custody dispute with the victim which he was losing.

He said the evidence was consistent with a premeditated murder by someone with a strong motive.

He noted the fact that Hillier had arranged babysitters for the children on the night the prosecution says the murder took place.

He said Hillier had no alibi for that evening.

The trial continues.

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Gunman shoots two Pentagon police officers in Washington

March 5, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Washington, Mar. 5 (ANI): A 36-year-old gunman injured two Pentagon police officers while trying to enter the complex on Thursday evening. He was shot and taken into custody.

While the motive for the shooting wasn”t immediately clear, the gunman was identified as John Patrick Bedell, Fox News reports.

Addressing a press conference, Pentagon Police Chief Richard Keevil said Bedell was calm as he approached the officers at the Pentagon’s main entrance around 6:40 p.m.

The officers asked to see his pass for entering the building and he started shooting without saying a word.

“He reached into his pocket and they assumed he was going to get out his pass and he just started shooting,” Keevil said.

The officers immediately fired back.

Keevil said that police officers’ injuries aren”t life-threatening, while the gunman”s injuries are more serious.

According to a Pentagon source, the gunman was shot in the head.

The three involved in the shooting had been taken to George Washington University Hospital for treatment.

“Fortunately there were no other injuries. A lot of people are coming and going at that time of the night,” said Keevil.

The Pentagon was on lockdown for a short while, and the Blue-Yellow line stop at the Pentagon station is still closed.

A second person was being questioned by the authorities, but sources say the person might just be a witness and is not being considered a suspect. (ANI)

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Army hosts yacht training camp for school children

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Nainital, Sep 18 (ANI): With an aim to revive yacht sailing in the country, a 15-day camp is being organised in Nainital district of Uttarakhand where in school children are being trained in yacht sailing.

Over 40 school students from the various parts of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh are taking part in the camp, which is being conducted under the aegis of Indian Army’s Central Command.

The Lucknow based Central Command is conducting such adventure camps for school children from over a decade.

The participants are receiving guidance in the yacht sailing by a team of 11 Army instructors.

“This yacht sailing is a great sport because these days it’s becoming extinct. Most of the people do not want to take part and people of Nainital are also not taking so much interest in yacht sailing. But I feel it’s a very adventurous sport and a great sport,” said Karel Caprini, a participant.

Many of the participants also feel that the training would open up new job opportunities for them.

“We have come here to revive this sport and as far as I can say it’s a very good sport and there is a lot of job opportunity in it. If we do well and learn the technique, we can make our career in the sports,” said Deep, another participant.

According to the Chief instructor of the camp, Mahip Singh the main motive behind the camp is to popularise the dying sport among youth.

“Basic purpose is that sailing is an international sport and the facilities available in Uttaranchal especially, which comes under the central command. We have got our sailors, who have participated in international levels and we got the expertise. So to give the young building up generation a chance to gain knowledge and finally if they have the interest, so excel in the sport. That’s why we have organised the camp,” said Singh.

Despite being considered as a sport at the international level, yacht sailing in India is still at its nascent stage. (ANI)

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UK commander says dialogue with Taliban insurgents necessary to end Afghan war

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kabul, Sep 18(ANI): In an ambitious aim to help bring an end to the eight-year war in Afghanistan by persuading the Taliban to lay down their arms, British Army Lt. Gen Sir Graeme Lamb said that many Taliban activists have “done nothing wrong”, rather they have taken to arms as “they have anger and grievances, which have not been addressed”.

While addressing a gathering at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) headquarters in Kabul, Lamb insisted that a dialogue with the Taliban insurgents is necessary to end the cold war.

“We need to take a good look at the people we consider to be our enemies. A lot of young men fighting us have not done anything wrong. They have anger and grievances, which have not been addressed. The better life they expected has not materialized, these are the people we must talk to, but we must make sure we have something to offer them,” The Independent quoted Lamb, as saying.

Lamb further highlighted that the NATO and British forces where not in Afghanistan to give up people’s freedom, and said: “What we do have to do is combine new culture and old culture and work out something that works. We will be listening to what our Afghan colleagues say. I will work very closely with them and let them set conditions.”

Lamb also said that their primary motive is to bring those Afghanistan citizens back into the society, who have been forced out of their society for no fault of their own.

“Judge us by not just what we say, the promises we make, but what we do, what we deliver at the end,” Lamb said. (ANI)

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Mystery surrounds motive behind Malay-Indian actress’ suicide

September 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, Sep. 11 (ANI): The mystery behind Malay-Indian actress K. Sujatha’s suicide continues, with her family’s counsel testifying that she took her life for reasons best known to her.

K. Kumaraendran, however, dismissed any third party involvement in her death.

The Star Online quoted Kumaraendran as saying that Sujatha’s close friend S. Vell Paari, who spent lavishly on the actress, including buying her a 420,000 ringgits condominium and financing her brothers’ education, should not be associated with her death.

Making his submissions, he said coroner Mohd Faizi Che Abu should not fail to reach a positive conclusion because there were doubts on some minor points.

Kumaraendran said the coroner had to consider the forensic expert’s evidence affirming that Sujatha herself drank the paraquat, as there were no splash marks on her.

He said the court should also consider the evidence given by Sujatha’s younger brother Surenthiran that he bought the paraquat upon her request.

“Sujatha had claimed that she wanted the para-quat for her friend. There is no interested party here,” Kumaraendran stressed.

He also said that the doctor who treated her was informed by her that she had consumed paraquat unknowingly.

DPP Geethan Ram Vincent said the coroner had to evaluate the evidence, as the evidence given by Vell Paari and Dr Sakti over the reasons for drinking the paraquat was difficult to believe.

He said Surenthiran’s evidence was suspicious, too.

Sujatha, 28, who had worked as Vell Paari’s personal assistant and head of corporate department, died on June 25, 2007, four days after being admitted to hospital. (ANI)

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Gunmen kill radio reporter in northern Philippines

Gunmen kill radio reporter in northern Philippines

Chinese court sentences attacker who knifed 29 kids to death

Asian woman stabs anti-knife campaigner UK MP in London

Aus govt putting extra efforts to curb racist attacks: Envoy

Australian govt. putting extra efforts to curb racist attacks on Indian: Oz envoy

People of Siliguri celebrate Nobel laureate Tagore”s birthday

Ghost exhibition organised in Bhopal

Fire engulfs Ajmer battery factory

Prison warden shot dead in Guatemala

Life terms for murdering parents

Heyward murder jury goes out

Matthew Heyward lacked motive for murder: lawyer

Doctor hacks 8 children to death in China

Accused murderer Hillier ‘had no alibi’

Gunman shoots two Pentagon police officers in Washington

Army hosts yacht training camp for school children

UK commander says dialogue with Taliban insurgents necessary to end Afghan war

Mystery surrounds motive behind Malay-Indian actress’ suicide

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