Pokhran (Rajasthan), Feb 28 – An advanced light helicopter (ALH) of the Indian Air Force (IAF) Sarang aerobatic display team crashed Saturday, ahead of the firepower demonstration here, an IAF officer said Sunday. ‘The aircraft suddenly lost power and crashed after the pilot was unable to regain control,’ the officer told IANS. It crashed at the Jaisalmer airfield, about 50 km from the Pokhran ranges.
New Delhi, Feb 28 – Two unidentified boys on a bike threw some acidic substance on a 29-year-old woman in Delhi Cantonment area Saturday while she was returning home from work, police said Sunday. ‘The victim, Vimla Devi, works as a saleswoman in a health drink company in Rajouri Garden area of West Delhi. The incident took place around 7 p.m.
New Delhi, Feb 28 – A couple was arrested here for duping several people of a total of Rs.65 lakh on the pretext of providing them educational degrees, police said Sunday. Rochak Sharma, 28, and his wife Jasmine Sharma, 27, who were absconding for the last several days, were arrested from Lodhi institutional area in south Delhi Saturday, police added. ‘A city court had issued non-bailable arrest warrants against the couple in January this year and they were absconding since then.
New Delhi, Feb.28 : Bharatiya Janata Party has also demanded a clarification from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his colleague Mr. Tharoor’s remarks. Interacting with the mediapersons here, BJP spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad on Sunday condemned the Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor’s statement saying “Saudi Arabia could be an interlocutor between India and Pakistan” and described it as “utterly irresponsible”.
New Delhi, Feb.28 : Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor’s reported comments about Saudi Arabia’s possibility of being an interlocutor between India and Pakistan seems to have put the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) here in an awkward position and it is likely to study his remarks. “We are unhappy at Tharoor comments,” Times Now reported government sources as saying on Sunday evening. “Prime Minister Office will study remarks and is likely to issue a contradiction to Tharoor’s remarks,” the report added.
Riyadh, Feb 28 – The role of emerging economies like India and Saudi Arabia would be crucial to the restructuring of the global economic and financial architecture, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. ‘The integration of our economies with the rest of the world has created new opportunities but also brought new challenges,’ the prime minister said Sunday while addressing the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry during the course of his historic visit to this affluent Gulf nation, one of the world’s largest oil producers and home to Islam’s holiest sites. ‘The global financial crisis has thrown up a broad agenda for global action and reforms.
Riyadh, Feb 28 – Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Sunday took to Twitter to clarify his remarks on Saudi Arabia’s potential role as an interlocutor in India-Pakistan ties. ‘Good day of mtgs (meetings), marred in some Indian media by misunderstanding of word ‘interlocutor’,’ Tharoor, who is accompanying Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, said in a tweet from Riyadh. ‘An interlocutor is someone u speak to, nothing more,’ said Tharoor on the social networking site.
Melbourne, Feb 28 – Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith, who will study the Commonwealth Games preparations when he visits India this week, has downplayed security concerns related to the event. Smith, who will leave Perth Monday, will meet government officials to discuss the Games, scheduled in New Delhi Oct 3-14, and watch Australia compete in the ongoing World Hockey Cup during the three-day trip. ‘I want to have conversations with relevant Indian ministers about the planning for the Games,’ Smith was quoted as saying in the Age.
New Delhi, Feb 28 – A Delhi Police constable was on the run Sunday after being charged with raping the 25-year-old wife of a friend. The constable, posted with the Crime Branch in Dwarka, allegedly assaulted the woman in Sector 16 of Dwarka when her husband had gone to Haryana. The woman told her husband later that the constable was drunk when he raped her.
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