BJS opposes Afzal clemency plea

Saturday, September 30, 2006, 22:03 [IST]

Bhopal, Sep 30 (UNI) Uma Bharti-led Bharatiya Jan Shakti today strongly opposed the clemency plea made for Mohd Afzal Guru -- mastermind of the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack -- by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.

In a statement issued here, BJS Secretary Inder Prajapat said the clemency plea amounted to insult to the country's law besides its public.

Mr Prajapat described Mr Azad's statement as treachery and demanded that a case be registered against the Congress leader.

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Maharashtra retains 3 titles, MP boys walk away with one

Saturday, September 30, 2006,22:04 [IST]

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Saturday, September 30, 2006,22:04 [IST]

BAGHDAD, Sep 30 (Reuters) Iraqi forces today placed Baghdad under a blanket curfew after US troops arrested a man suspected of plotting to attack the capital's government compound with suicide car bombs. US troops arrested a security guard at the home of the leader of the main Sunni political bloc yesterday. The US military today said the man was suspected of planning attacks on the fortified ''Green Zone'' and may have been linked to al.....

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Isaac becomes hurricane in Atlantic

Saturday, September 30, 2006,22:04 [IST]

MIAMI, Sep 30 (Reuters) Tropical Storm Isaac became the fifth hurricane of the Atlantic season today but remained far out in the Atlantic Ocean and was no immediate threat to any land. People in the Canadian maritime provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland were warned to keep an eye on the storm, which was 370 miles (595 km) east-southeast of Bermuda at 11 a.m. 2030 hrs IST. It was moving toward the northwest at 11.....

Crash site of Brazil passenger jet found in Amazon

Saturday, September 30, 2006,22:04 [IST]

BRASILIA, Brazil, Sep 30 (Reuters) Airborne searchers today found the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed a day earlier in Amazon jungle with 155 people on board and the chances of anyone surviving were slight, officials said. The brand-new Boeing 737-800 operated by Brazilian low-cost carrier Gol probably plunged into the ground nose first after colliding with a smaller plane, the head of Brazil's airport authority Infraero said. ''All rational logic shows.....

Four killed in inter-tribal clash in Pakistan

Saturday, September 30, 2006,22:04 [IST]

KHAR, Pakistan, Sep 30 (Reuters) At least four people were killed and two others critically wounded in a gunbattle between feuding tribesmen in northwest Pakistan, an administrator for the region today said. Pakistan's semi-autonomous Pashtun tribal lands have become best-known for the hunt for Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda in recent years, but there has been a long history of violence in a region where family feuds can last for generations. ''Four people.....