Honour killings claimed the lives of two sets of lovers in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. A young Muslim couple was shot dead by the girl’s brother in Aligarh while another couple committed suicide by consuming poison in Muzaffarnagar district.
According to police reports, a young couple had eloped from Delhighat locality in Aligarh last week after their families refused to accept the alliance. However, they returned home on Saturday evening when both the families convinced them that they would get them married as per tradition. But the girl’s brother, Mohammad, who had been opposed to the alliance, shot the couple dead.
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Train hits car, German couple killed
Age Correspondent
Thiruvananthapuram
Four persons, including two tourists from Germany, were killed after the Chennai Alapuzha express rammed into a car which was trying to cross an unmanned level-crossing at Mararikkulam on Sunday morning.
The tourists have been identified as Malfred and his wife Katherine, who were going to a nearby hospital after leaving their children at a beach resort. The driver of the Innova car and a tourist guide also died in the incident.
According to the police, the level-crossing is located close to a turning and the driver was unable to see the speeding train.
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Arunachal for Burma border fence
Age Correspondent
Agartala
Arunachal Pradesh has demanded construction of barbed wire fencing along the Indo-Burma border with the state to prevent trans-border movement of NSCN(IM) insurgents. “Fencing along the Indo-Bangla border has become an effective tool to contain insurgency in Tripura and Assam and a similar measure is necessary along the Indo-Burma border too,” Arunachal Pradesh home minister Tako Dabi said here on Sunday.
He said Arunachal Pradesh has no insurgency problem of its own but the NSCN(IM), Ulfa and NDFB militants hiding in the state’s vast forest has become a headache.
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Qureshi says remarks on Pillai justified
New Delhi : Unfazed by India’s attack, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has justified his statement comparing home secretary G.K. Pillai with Jamaat-ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, saying it was “balanced and objective”. Breaking his silence on the issue since his controversial July 15 remarks, Mr Qureshi said there was “no justification” for Mr Pillai to make the “unhelpful” comments and contended that it spoiled the atmospherics for his talks with external affairs minister S.M. Krishna. “Mr Pillai’s statement was, doubtless, uncalled for and off the mark,” the Pakistani minister said. —PTI