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Indian police arrest head of collapsed savings scheme

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 11:45
Police said on Tuesday they had arrested the head of a privately run Indian savings company that collapsed, leaving tens of thousands of its investors penniless. Police in the West Bengal state capital Kolkata said Saradha group chairman Sudipta Sen and two of his business associates were taken into custody in the northern Indian state of Kashmir where they had fled. The collapse last month of the so-called chit fund which offered returns of 40 percent and more has triggered massive street protests in eastern India and three investors have committed suicide, police said.

Victory over Japanese at Kohima named Britain's greatest battle

April 21, 2013 05:15
By Angus MacSwan LONDON (Reuters) - The Battle of Imphal/Kohima, when British troops fighting in horrendous jungle conditions turned the tide against the Japanese army in World War II, has been chosen as Britain's greatest battle. Kohima was picked over the more celebrated battles of D-Day and Waterloo in a contest organised by the National Army Museum. Rorke's Drift in the 1879 Zulu War and the Battle of Aliwal in the Anglo-Sikh War in Punjab in 1846 brought up the rear.

Ghosts of Gujarat riots haunt Modi's PM ambitions

Agence France-PresseApril 20, 2013 23:45
He may be the opposition frontrunner for next year's Indian elections, but the ghosts of the carnage in his fiefdom a decade ago have returned to haunt Narendra Modi's prime ministerial ambitions. Modi, chief minister of the thriving state of Gujarat for over a decade and favourite to be the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) candidate for the national polls, has been campaigning furiously to paint himself as a pro-business reformist who can revive the fortunes of the world's largest democracy.

Rights groups hail tribal win in India Vedanta case

Agence France-PresseApril 19, 2013 11:31
Rights groups on Friday said India's Supreme Court had set a "landmark" precedent in forcing British resources giant Vedanta to obtain the approval of tribal people before mining their land. The court rejected a bid Thursday by Vendanta Resources, controlled by London-based self-made billionaire Anil Agarwal, to lift a ban on mining bauxite from hills deemed sacred by the Dongria Kondh tribe in eastern Orissa state.

Earthquake jolts islands off northern Japan, no tsunami warning

April 18, 2013 23:45
TOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck islands off northern Japan on Friday but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Buildings in Tokyo also shook from the quake. On Wednesday, a series of earthquakes, including one with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2, hit Japan's Miyake island, about 180 km (111 miles) south of Tokyo. (Reporting by Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Edmund Klamann)

Pakistan bears brunt of Iranian earthquake, 35 killed

April 16, 2013 07:30
By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake struck a border area of southeast Iran on Tuesday killing at least 35 people in neighbouring Pakistan, destroying hundreds of houses and shaking buildings as far away as India and Gulf Arab states. Communications with the sparsely-populated desert and mountain region were largely cut off, making it difficult to assess Iranian casualties. But an Iranian provincial governor later said there were no reports of deaths there so far.

India's top court rejects challenge to death sentence

April 12, 2013 06:45
India's Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the execution of a Sikh militant, rejecting his appeal in a ruling that could lead to more death sentences being carried out. Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar from northwestern Punjab, who was convicted over a New Delhi car bombing that killed nine people in 1993, had appealed for his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment on the grounds that he had spent two decades on death row.

SHC maintains status quo on case of LEW affectees, seeks report about fair valuation of properties

April 11, 2013 17:04
The Sindh High Court SHC on Wednesday directed provincial authorities to file report after fair valuation of property of all those people, whose land is required for the Lyari Expressway project.A division bench headed by Justice Maqbool Baqar continued status quo and ordered authorities not to displace the petitioners till the next order. The hearing was adjourned to May 5.The petitioners, 32 residents of Liaquatabad represented by Advocate Shaukat Ali Shaikh, stated that respondents were trying to demolish their houses though they had registered lease deeds.

SHC maintains status quo on case of LEW affectees, seeks report about fair valuation of properties

April 11, 2013 09:34
The Sindh High Court SHC on Wednesday directed provincial authorities to file report after fair valuation of property of all those people, whose land is required for the Lyari Expressway project.A division bench headed by Justice Maqbool Baqar continued status quo and ordered authorities not to displace the petitioners till the next order. The hearing was adjourned to May 5.The petitioners, 32 residents of Liaquatabad represented by Advocate Shaukat Ali Shaikh, stated that respondents were trying to demolish their houses though they had registered lease deeds.

CORRECTED: Late Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi linked to arms deal

April 8, 2013 05:30
Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, whose family still dominates India's ruling party, may have been a middleman for an arms deal in the 1970s, according to diplomatic cables published Monday. The Hindu newspaper, accessing new information compiled by WikiLeaks, cites confidential US embassy cables stating that Gandhi was employed by Swedish group Saab-Scania to help sell its Viggen fighter jet.
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