‘Dead man’ returns home after missing for two months
PANAJI, Jan 3: A 59-year-old man from Goa, who was declared “dead” and whose “funeral” was conducted by his relatives, returned home after reported missing for more than two months, police said on Wednesday, leaving his family shocked and joyous.The man, Marcos Milagres, a resident of Agassaim village near the Goa capital Panaji, had gone missing late last year.Inspector Vikram Naik of the Agassaim police station said the family of Milagres had filed a missing person’s complaint with them sometime in October.Subsequently, the body of a man was found in Panaji on October 7, 2023, which was identified as that of Milagres by his family members, he said.Naik said the family members conducted the last rites of the body.However, more than two months later, the Goa police received a call from their Mumbai counterparts informing them about a man claiming to be Milagres and a resident of Agassaim.Naik said the man was brought to the Agassaim police station where his family identified him as Milagres.He had gone to Mumbai without informing his family, said the police officer.It was not yet known whose body was handed over to Milagres’s family. (PTI)
Two get death penalty for 2005 Shramjivi Express blast
JAUNPUR (UP), Jan 3: A sessions court on Wednesday sentenced to death two men, including one from Bangladesh, for carrying out the Shramjivi Express train blast in 2005 that left at least 14 people dead and 62 injured.A fine of Rs 5 lakh each was also imposed on the convicts, who were pronounced guilty on December 23.“The court of additional sessions court judge Rajesh Kumar Rai awarded death sentences to Hilal alias Hilaluddin and Nafikul Vishwas convicted in the Shramjivi train blast case” District government counsel Satish Pandey said. While Hilaluddin is a native of Bangladesh, Vishwas is from West Bengal.The explosion had ripped apart a coach of the Patna-New Delhi train near the Jaunpur station in Uttar Pradesh at around 5.00 pm on July 28, 2005.According to the prosecution, RDX was kept in the toilet of the coach. Witnesses had reported that two young men had boarded the train at Jaunpur with a white suitcase. Shortly afterwards, both leapt out of the moving train without their suitcase and the explosion occurred a few minutes later. (PTI)
India reports 602 new Covid cases, 511 of JN.1 variant
NEW DELHI, Jan 3: ndia has recorded 602 new Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours, pushing the the total number of active cases to 4,440 on Wednesday.The country had recorded 865 new cases on May 19.Five new fatalities – one each from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Punjab, two from Kerala — have been reported in the span of 24 hours, according to the ministry’s data.As of now, the total number of coronavirus cases in India, since the outbreak in January 2020, has reached 4,50,15, 083.The death toll related to Covid cases in the country has risen to 5,33,371. The new variant, JN.1 subvariant is descendent of the Omicron subvariant known as BA.2.86 or Pirola, with Kerala being the first state to report a case. (IANS)