13 killed as under-construction house collapses in UP
Chandauli: Thirteen people were killed and one other injured when an unfinished house collapsed in Dulhipur locality in Mughalsarai area here, police said on Sunday. Five men, six women and two children have died after the house on which construction work was going on collapsed Saturday night, they said. The house belongs to one Kamaruddin, they said. Among the deceased, four are labourers and rest are either relatives or family members of Kamaruddin, Superintendent of Police (SP) Muniraj said. Police and NDRF team rushed to the spot, he said, adding that rescue operation is underway and the injured have been rushed to a hospital where their condition was stated to be stable. A compensation of Rs 30,000 will be given to the family members of the deceased, District Magistrate N K Singh said. (PTI)
Dawood gang member Shyam Kishor held in Goa
Panaji: Goa Police have arrested a Dawood Ibrahim gang member who was convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case and involved in 18 other major crimes, including the JJ hospital shootout. Shyam Kishor Garikapatti, originally from Pune and associated with the D-gang for the last two decades, was caught last night in Saligao village, about 10 km from Panaji, where he was hiding for the last eight years, Superintendent of Police Karthik Kashyap told reporters on Sunday. A convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, Kishor had jumped parole in 2003 and since then had been on the run, Kashyap said. He was living in Saligao for the last eight years on a fake identity. A pistol and a fake ID card were seized from his possession, he said. The gangster, known by his street name ‘Black Scorpion’, was also allegedly involved in the JJ hospital shootout in the early 90s involving the rival gangs of Dawood Ibrahim and Arun Gawli. He was also allegedly involved in the attack on residents of Vadrai coastal village in Maharashtra on April 30, 1991, and several other murder cases, the SP said. (PTI)
TMC inner party tussle will benefit Cong: Adhir
Kolkata: West Bengal PCC president Adhir Chowdhury on Sunday claimed that inner party “tussle” within Trinamool Congress will benefit Congress politically and alleged that party’s general secretary Mukul Roy is being cut to size so the Mamata’s nephew could flourish politically. He also mocked TMC chief Mamata Banerjee for “not standing” beside Roy in his time of crisis. “When Mukul Roy is in trouble his party supremo Mamata Banerjee is not standing by her side. Roy has done misdeeds under the instructions of Banerjee and now she has left him in the cold,” Chowdhury told reporters. “Mukul Roy’s wings are being clipped in order to help Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek flourish politically. And BJP is trying to take advantage of the inner party tussle in TMC and is trying to fish in troubled waters by using Roy to spilt the party. “But the inner party tussle in TMC will help Congress to grow politically. This is because TMC was is born out of the womb of Congress,” Chowdhury said. Chowdhury’s comments came a day after Roy, who is under CBI scanner for his alleged involvement in the Saradha scam, was left out by the TMC supremo in a major organisational shake-up Saturday. (PTI)
Sr Chinese Communist Party official meets Shah
New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah today met a top official of the Chinese Communist Party and exchanged views with him for enhancing the dialogue between the two parties. “Shah met Wang Jiarui, Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee today at the BJP headquarters here,” the party said in a release. During the meeting, Shah hailed Jiarui for being the first official visitor as part of the ‘Visit India’ year being observed by Beijing. Jiarui extended an invitation to Shah to visit China while the duo also discussed ways of encouraging people-to-people interaction between the two countries. BJP general secretary (organisation) Ram Lal, general secretaries Ram Madhav and Bhupendra Yadav and the party’s foreign affairs in-charge Vijay Chauthaiwale were also present during the meeting. A BJP parliamentary delegation led by former Uttarakhand chief minister Bhagat Singh Koshiyari had some time back visited China on a study tour and met senior functionaries of the ruling Communist Party of China. (PTI)