The recent attacks on Dalits and other backward classes (OBC) is being seen as an attempt by the dominant Maratha caste to suppress the voice of Dalit/other backward classes for having opposed reservations for the Marathas.
In Beed, two women were paraded naked in their village while an activist was brutally beaten up for raising his voice when talking to so-called upper caste leaders. In Parbhani, an old dalit woman was killed over a land dispute and on Tuesday, a young Dalit boy was killed in Aurangabad for allegedly teasing an upper caste girl.
26/11 proof will be in electronic, videographic & audio modes, as well as in writing
The Mumbai police are expected to file the chargesheet in the 26/11 terror attacks on Wednesday. Even though the police have filed several chargesheets till date, this one is unique. "It has been a multi-dimensional investigation," said a senior Crime Branch officer.
Right from the sophisticated weapons used by the terrorists, the use of global positioning system (GPS), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), satellite phones, the water route used to reach Mumbai and the terror training in Pakistan, the police investigated several aspects of the case.
Agency chief reveals how US, UK helped probe 26/11
As the Mumbai Police prepare to file a 5,000-page charge-sheet against Mohammed Ajmal Amir aka Kasab and three others on Wednesday, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has given details of how American and British agencies helped Indian investigators during and after the carnage in November to collect evidence and trace the masterminds.
FBI director Robert Mueller, while speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, on Monday, said Indian authorities gave the FBI and other international agencies unprecedented access to evidence and intelligence. FBI agents extracted "fingerprints even from the improvised explosive devices", he said.
Sydney - A feud between rival Aboriginal families in the remote Australian town of Tennant Creek sparked a street battle among more than 100 people armed with clubs, boomerangs, axes and knives, Northern Territory police said Tuesday.
A 63-year-old woman was airlifted to Alice Springs Hospital after being clubbed.
"We will not tolerate people, under any circumstances, taking the law into their own hands," Superintendent Bruce Porter said.
Vienna - Journalists expecting a scandalous play about the incest case of Josef Fritzl were disappointed Monday when Vienna theatre artist Hubsi Kramar turned the tables and offered a scathing critique of the intense media coverage of the crime.
Addressing the large group of reporters in the audience, Kramar started off the premiere of his play Pension F by suggesting that all camera teams present should be locked into the theatre's cellar.
"And then we'll see how they are doing," Kramar said.
Cotabato City, Philippines - Kidnappers in the southern Philippines freed a Filipino-Chinese businessman and his 10-year-old daughter after ransom was allegedly paid, officials said Monday.
Wilson Tan, 50, and his daughter Jennifer were released by their captors in Talayan town in Maguindanao province, 930 kilometres south of Manila, on Sunday evening.
They were kidnapped just outside their house in nearby Cotabato City on February 19.
Army Colonel Domingo Gubway said that based on unconfirmed reports, the family paid ransom for the release of the hostages.
"There maybe ransom money involved, but we have no idea as to the amount," he said.
Sydney - A feud between rival Aboriginal families in the remote Australian town of Tennant Creek sparked a street battle among more than 100 people armed with clubs, boomerangs, axes and knives, Northern Territory police said Tuesday.
Vienna - Journalists expecting a scandalous play about the incest case of Josef Fritzl were disappointed Monday when Vienna theatre artist Hubsi Kramar turned the tables and offered a scathing critique of the intense media coverage of the crime.
