At least 21 killed, 78 wounded in Iraq attacks

Baghdad:At least 21 people were killed and 78 injured in attacks across Iraq Monday, mostly in the Shiite provinces, an interior ministry source said.

Two people were killed and 12 wounded when a car bomb exploded in Karbala, some 110 km from Baghdad, the source told Xinhua.

Meanwhile, at least six people were killed and 14 wounded in another car bomb attack in the Shiite district of Mahmodiyah, 30 km from Baghdad, he added.

Mamata Banerjee ignored warnings, says Delhi Police

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ignored warnings that could have protected her from protesters gathered in Delhi on Tuesday evening, the Delhi Police has said.

In a report to the Home Ministry, the police have said that as Ms Banerjee was approaching the Planning Commission, she decided that her car would use a gate that had not been cleared for her. The police had reportedly alerted her to the fact that demonstrators had gathered at the main entrance, and had suggested that she use the VIP gate.

Five NATO containers set ablaze in Bolan

QUETTA: As many as five NATO containers were set ablaze on the National Highway near Kambari bridge area of Bolan District, some 70 kilometres from the provincial capital, on Monday.

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While talking to reporters, Bolan Deputy Commissioner Sayeed Waheed Shah said that a convoy of 40 NATO containers was en route to Karachi from Chaman when unidentified armed men on two motorcycles opened indiscriminate fire on it. Resultantly, five containers of the convoy caught fire. “The containers were carrying scrap and other constructive material for bridges,” Deputy Commissioner Sayeed Waheed Shah said, and added that the raiders attacked the convoy from the front.

Justice (retd) Zahid Qurban takes oath as interim CM of Sindh

KARACHI: Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad Khad administered oath to Justice (retd) Zahid Qurban Alvi as Sindh’s caretaker Chief Minister on Monday, DawnNews reported.

The Sindh Assembly was dissolved late on Tuesday after Governor Ibad signed a summary sent by former chief minister Qaim Ali Shah.

SC upholds death sentence of Yakub Memon in 1993 Mumbai blasts

The Supreme Court upheld death sentence of prime accused in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, Yakub Memon, brother Tiger Memon.

The apex court commuted the death sentences of ten others to life. SC commuted the death sentence on the ground that the convicts were behind bars for 20 years and their economic condition was weak.

Man jailed for recording woman in shower with a spy camera

A man, who placed a spy camera inside a shampoo rack of a toilet to video record a fellow tenant bathing, was jailed for three weeks on Thursday.

Accounts executive Chan Chee Yoong, 42, a Malaysian and a Singapore permanent resident, admitted to intruding into the privacy of the then 24-year-old woman at a flat in Balestier on May 28, 2011. A magistrate's court heard that Chan had rented a room at the flat while the victim was renting a room which she shared with her boyfriend.

Four killed in Peshawar Judicial Complex suicide attack

PESHAWAR: At least four people have been killed and 27 others injured in a suicide attack at the Judicial Complex located on Khyber Road.

According to police terrorists tried to the enter the courtroom of Additional Sessions Judge Kulsoom Azam who was injured along with others as a result of firing which was followed by a suicide bomber detonating himself.

Pakistani doctors being recruited for jobs in KSA

Medical practitioners in Pakistan have a golden chance to work in the land of the Two Holy mosques as Saudi Arabia is recruiting a large number of doctors from there.

A team of doctors from the Ministry of Health is in Pakistan to interview candidates, Khayyam Akram, deputy chief of mission of the Pakistan Embassy, told Arab News yesterday.

Five US troops killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash

KABUL : A helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan has killed five American service members, officials said Tuesday.

Monday night's crash brought the total number of U.S. troops killed that day to seven, making it the deadliest day for U.S. forces so far this year. Two U.S. special operations forces were gunned down hours earlier in an insider attack by an Afghan policeman in eastern Afghanistan.

Saudi Arabia Could End Beheadings 'Due To Shortage of Swordsmen'

Washington: Saudi Arabian authorities have planning to drop public beheadings as a method of execution, a report has said.

Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported in its Sunday edition that the ministerial committee is considering fatal shootings as an alternative.