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Foreigner shot dead in train; passengers looted

Chitrakoot, Dec 28 (UNI) Unidentified assailants shot dead a foreigner and grievously wounded a woman and looted the passengers of Varanasi-Mumbai bound Kamyani Express here this morning.

The incident occurred near Manikpur railway station, where few men barged into the AC-2 coach.

Few passenger, including a Russian and an Indian women, resisted.

The robbers shot at the two women, in which the Russian succumbed on the spot, whereas the other was grievously wounded.

Later, the criminals decamped with jewellery and cash worth Rs 50 lakh, official sources said.

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AKRSU withdraws 1,000-hr blockade in Assam

Guwahati, Dec 28 (UNI) The All Koch Rajbonshi Students' Union (AKRSU) today announced of temporarily withdrawing its 1,000-hour blockade from January one. Disclosing this at a press meet here, AKRSU president Biswajit Ray said the decision to withdraw the blockade was taken to facilitate the participation of the general people in the Panchayat polls, which begins in a three-phase from December 31. He said, ''The Panchayat election enables the people at the grassroots to participate in a democratic process. We.....

One died, more than a dozen injured and house gutted in Kashmir

Srinagar, Dec 28 (UNI) One person was killed and over a dozen others were injured, while a house was gutted in the Kashmir valley today, official sources said. They said one person was injured when a vehicle, in which he was travelling, skidded off the road and fell into an open field at Ganderbal. He was immediately shifted to the hospital where he died. About a dozen passengers were injured when a bus, carrying them from Jammu to Srinagar, rammed into.....

I am a politician only by accident: PM

Panaji, Dec 28 (UNI) For Prime minister Manmohan Singh, teaching was his chosen career, but he became a politician by accident. ''As I have often said, teaching was my chosen career. I am a politician only by accident,'' he told the 20th Annual Convocation of Goa University here today amid a thunderous applause. ''Nothing gives me more joy than to be among teachers and students,'' he said, while recalling his earlier visit to Goa to inaugurate the BITS Campus for the.....
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