One of the arrested is an engineering student; 250-year-old statue recovered

The police on Friday arrested three people including an engineering student for their alleged involvement in a theft of a 250-year-old antique idol of lord Krishna from Charbhuja Temple in Muhana Police station area on January 12, said SP East Beeju George Joseph.

The stolen idol was also recovered from Muhana village, on revelation of the arrested people, he said.

Joseph said, the accused wanted to sell the antique in Rs20 crore and they had found the customers for that but they did not know that they were dealing with the police team in disguise.

Hong Kong - An Hong Kong actress pictured in racy photographs circulated on the internet has broken her silence to lambast Edison Chen, the star at the centre of the scandal, news reports said Saturday.

Cecilia Cheung appeared in a television interview broadcast Friday by Hong Kong-based private television channel iCable, criticising Chen whom she accused of lying and saying one thing to gain public sympathy while doing another.

Kuala Lumpur  - A Malaysian woman suffered a fractured skull and ribs, and had to have nearly 100 stitches, claiming she was attacked by her Indonesian maid, news reports said Saturday.

Phang Kian Huang, 42, claimed that her maid had entered her room early Thursday while she was asleep and began attacking her with a wooden stool.

"She left and came back with a knife and started slashing. I pretended to lose consciousness," Phang was quoted as saying by the Star daily.

Phang, whose left ear was almost severed in the attack, alleged that the maid then returned a third time and threw a stone mortar at her, fracturing her skull and several ribs.

The Mumbai police completed a formidable task on Wednesday, three months to the date of the November terror attacks, when it filed a mammoth charge-sheet on the incident. Over 11,000 pages, 2000 witnesses, 38 accused, one terrorist caught alive and new information about calls made by the terrorists to their handlers are part of this enormous effort. Those in custody are Ajmal Amir 'Kasab', the lone terrorist who was captured alive as well as the two Indians accused of providing local assistance, Faheem and Sabauddin Ansari. The rest are mainly LeT operatives in Pakistan.

Tallinn  - Three young Estonian men were handed suspended prison sentences in the south-eastern Estonian town of Voru on Thursday after they admitted desecrating what they took to be a Communist monument in the local cemetery in December 2008.

The three self-appointed patriots took offence at the presence of the monument and daubed it in the blue, white and black colours of the Estonian flag.

There was just one problem - the monument, called the Common Grave of Terror Victims, was actually dedicated to the victims of fascism.

No bandobast could stop the Rajesh Pillay Academy (RPA) and Vikram Pillay Academy (VPA) as they sent the police force out of the reckoning in the, Late Professor Shardul B Gaikwad Invitational Hockey Tournament at the Ammunition Factory ground here on Friday

RPA and VPA scripted an impressive wins in their high energy encounters against Railway Police and Pune City Police respectively.