A man was gunned down by Pakistani Rangers personnel while allegedly trying to cross over the border to India in Punjab province, local residents said on Sunday. According to the local residents, the paramilitary border guards arrested Shah Nawaz, a resident of Attari village, near the border in Kasur, 40 km from Lahore, and shot him dead on Saturday. Immediately after the incident, the local residents captured some Pakistani Rangers personnel and alleged that they were involved in killing Shah Nawaz.
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11 dead in walls, house collapse
Jaunpur/Mirzapur: Eleven persons, including five minors, were killed in separate incidents of house and wall collapse due to heavy rains, the police said here on Sunday. In Mirzapur district, four members of a family — two women and two children — were on Sunday killed when the mud wall of a house collapsed in Manikpur village in Adalhat area, they said. In Jaupur district, five members of a family were killed and two others injured when the house of a dalit collapsed in Aswara village in Gaurabadshahpur area.
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Cops clueless about Orissa MLA killers
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
Bhubaneswar, Sept. 25
The Orissa police is yet get any lead as to who killed Umerkote legislator Jagabandhu Majhi and why.
“Nothing can be said for sure at this moment. The police is yet to get any lead regarding the motive behind the crime and the people involved in it. The crime branch of the state police is investigating into all the possible angles. I hope things will be clear within a day or two,” Nowrangpur district superintendent of police Niti Sekhar told this newspaper on Sunday.
Sources said the police is probing into two possible angles: Majhi’s old rivalry with non-tribal Bangladeshi settlers and the Maoist involvement.
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Railways under pressure to improve revenue
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI Sept. 25
The ministry of railways, headed by Dinesh Trivedi, is coming under increasing pressure to reduce working expenses and improve earnings by taking steps such as closing uneconomic branch lines or discouraging the introduction of new trains, among others.
A branch line can be described as a secondary route to places not served by a main railway line. A combination of factors, including, but not limited to, the deteriorating financial health of the railways, which has been made worse by a loss of over `3,200 crores for operating on uneconomical routes between 2005 and 2010, is compelling the railway ministry to opt for prudence over profligacy or populism.