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U.S. Senate panel OKs changes sought by tech firms in immigration bill

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:35:16 +0530

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel voted on Tuesday to make it easier for U.S. companies to hire foreign workers as part of a broad immigration bill being debated in Congress. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted for the amendment, which would loosen requirements that employers recruit Americans ahead of foreigners for high-tech jobs. The compromise was brokered by Democratic Senator Charles Schumer to win over Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican whose support is seen as important to bring other conservatives on board with broader immigration reform. ...

U.S. Senate panel approves sweeping immigration bill

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:31:03 +0530

By Rachelle Younglai and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved legislation that would bring about the biggest changes in U.S. immigration policy in a generation, setting up a spirited debate in the full Senate next month. By a vote of 13-5, the panel approved the nearly 900-page bill that would put 11 million illegal residents on a 13-year path to citizenship while further strengthening security along the southwestern border with Mexico, long a sieve for illegal crossings. ...

U.S. Senate panel approves immigration bill

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:29:15 +0530

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday passed a sweeping immigration bill that would give millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 in favor of the legislation that, if enacted, would represent the most significant overhaul of the U.S. immigration system since 1986. The full Senate is expected to start working on the legislation in June. The House of Representatives has not yet begun advancing its version of the bill. (Reporting by Caren Bohan, Richard Cowan, Rachelle Younglai; editing by Christopher Wilson)

Discovery of alleged Russian plot points to growing jitters

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:02:01 +0530

By Timothy Heritage OREKHOVO-ZUYEVO, Russia (Reuters) - As Russia congratulated its forces for foiling an alleged Islamist plot on Moscow, the discovery of the plan also pointed to the growing security threat before the 2014 Winter Olympics. Monday's killing of two suspected militants and arrest of a third in a sleepy town near Moscow was quickly followed by the killing of one of the leaders of an Islamist insurgency being waged in Russia's North Caucasus. ...

U.S. tax official at center of scandal won't testify - lawyer

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:02:31 +0530

By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a scandal about the targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny, plans to assert her constitutional right not to answer questions from a congressional committee on Wednesday. "She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course," Lerner's attorney, William Taylor, wrote on Monday to the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that is holding hearings into the IRS scandal. ...

Gay marriage opponent kills himself in Paris' Notre Dame

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:43:34 +0530

By Lucien Libert PARIS (Reuters) - An 78-year-old French far-right activist committed suicide at the altar of the Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday by shooting himself in the mouth, three days after a law legalising same-sex marriage came into effect. Police evacuated the cathedral, one of Paris' biggest tourist draws, after Dominique Venner - a historian known for his hard-right political essays and a fierce opponent of gay marriage - shot himself, sending tourists fleeing in panic. Venner made no declaration as he shot himself around mid-afternoon, a police source said. ...

Judge warns bin Laden's son-in-law on lawyer choices

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:38:35 +0530

By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - The son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and former spokesman for al Qaeda, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to kill Americans, was warned on Tuesday that his three chosen lawyers may not get clearance to review classified evidence in the case. A federal judge in New York told Suleiman Abu Ghaith, one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda figures to face trial in the United States for crimes related to the September 11, 2001, attacks, that legal issues and, for one lawyer, a disability, could prevent them from getting the needed clearance. U.S. ...

Jessica murder: Court decision on hostile witnesses Wednesday

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:13:06 +0530

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday is likely to pronounce its verdict whether to prosecute Bollywood actor Shyan Munshi and 18 others on charges of perjury for turning hostile during their deposition in model Jessica Lall's murder trial.

Delhi cop run over by truck

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:03:06 +0530

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) A 40-year-old Delhi Traffic Police constable was killed by a speeding truck here Tuesday morning, police said. The errant truck driver was arrested.

Kashmir 'preacher' arrested for sexual exploiting four minors

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:55:12 +0530

Srinagar, May 21 (IANS) A self-styled "religious preacher" was arrested from Jammu and Kashmir's Badgam district for repeated sexual exploitation of four minor girls at an institute he ran, police said Tuesday.

Delhi cops to quiz Sreesanth for five more days

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:31:08 +0530

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) A Delhi court Tuesday extended by five days the police custody of cricketer S. Sreesanth, his Rajasthan Royals teammates Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila and eight bookies for alleged spot fixing in the ongoing Indian Premier League.

Man accused of rape and murder that shocked S.Africa is released

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:33:30 +0530

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against one of the two men charged with raping, mutilating and killing a teenage girl in a crime that outraged a country hardened by some of the world's highest rates of sexual violence. Prosecution spokesman Eric Ntabazalila said the man had been released from custody because there was not enough evidence to take him to trial. ...

NHRC issues notice to Haryana over assault of Dalit boy

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:19:05 +0530

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Tuesday sought a response from Haryana's director general of police and Kaithal police chief following media reports that a Dalit boy was assaulted by a man who was part of a group which had attacked Dalits earlier as well.

Harassed by in-laws, man commits suicide

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:13:06 +0530

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) A 27-year-old man committed suicide here Tuesday, depressed over being beaten by his in-laws and his wife's refusal to return home from her parents' house.

IPL scam reaches Bollywood, cricketers' questioning on

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:59:05 +0530

Mumbai/New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to ban remaining IPL matches while Bollywood actor Vindu Dara Singh Randhawa, a bookie and a hawala operator were arrested by Mumbai police in the spot fixing scam and investigators in Delhi got five more days to question cricketer S. Sreesanth.

'Goa hospital faces water shortage because taps are stolen'

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:47:07 +0530

Panaji, May 21 (IANS) The Goa Medical College (GMC), the state's top health facility, regularly faces water shortage because people steal taps installed in the hospital premises, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said Tuesday.

Bank employee arrested for defrauding Canadian customer

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:31:06 +0530

Hyderabad, May 21 (IANS) A phone banking officer of ICICI Bank here has been arrested for hacking the bank account of a Canadian customer and fraudulently withdrawing over Rs.32 lakh from his account.

U.S. court rules bin Laden death photos can stay secret

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:07:23 +0530

By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them. The unanimous ruling by three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a request for the images by a conservative nonprofit watchdog group. Judicial Watch sued for photographs and video from the May 2011 raid in which U.S. ...

Chinese escape Karachi bomb ahead of Premier Li's arrival in Pakistan

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:24:25 +0530

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb exploded near the seafront in Karachi on Tuesday likely targeting a van full of Chinese port workers, police said, a day before Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives in the capital, Islamabad. No one was hurt. Karachi, the nuclear-armed country's key port, is home to 18 million people. It typically sees about a dozen murders a day, a combination of political killings, attacks by the Pakistan Taliban and sectarian militant groups, and street crime. ...

Saudi Arabia executes five Yemenis and displays corpses

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:23:33 +0530

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia executed five Yemenis on Tuesday for robbery and murder, then put their bodies on public display as a further punishment, state news agency SPA said. A sixth man, a Saudi national, was separately executed for murder, the agency said. It was the second time in less than three months that Saudi Arabia executed several convicted criminals at the same time. In February, the United Nations criticised Saudi Arabia after it executed seven Saudis in one go. Both cases were in Jizan Province in southern Saudi Arabia. ...

Sreesanth bought Rs.1.95 lakh-worth apparel from spot-fixing money

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:13:07 +0530

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) Tainted cricketer S. Sreesanth went on a shopping spree with the money he earned from spot-fixing, buying apparel worth Rs.1.95 lakh for himself and a mobile phone costing over Rs.40,000 for his girlfriend, Delhi Police said Tuesday.

Two women arrested for molesting six-year-old

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:11:09 +0530

Gurgaon, May 21 (IANS) Two women employees of a private school here were arrested for sexually molesting a six-year-old Class 3 student for the last few months, police said Tuesday.

Two Ghaziabad cops arrested for extortion

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:31:15 +0530

Ghaziabad, May 21 (IANS) Two police constables were arrested in Ghaziabad for harassing a newly-married couple and extorting Rs.8,000 from them, police said Tuesday.

Sreesanth, 10 others sent to five days' police custody

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:10 +0530

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) A Delhi court Tuesday sent cricketer S. Sreesanth, his Rajasthan Royals teammates Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila, and eight bookies, all arrested for alleged spot fixing in the IPL, to additional five days in police custody.

Sreesanth used spot-fixing money on branded apparel

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:41:08 +0530

Sharp rise in number Afghan women in prison for "moral crimes"

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:08:16 +0530

By Amie Ferris-Rotman KABUL (Reuters) - About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost twelve years ago. Running away from home, usually from abuse and forced marriage, and alleged adultery, which often involves rape, have landed most of the 600 women in prison. That figure is an increase of 50 percent over the last 18 months. ...

Supreme Court rejects bid to halt IPL

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:59:36 +0530

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Supreme Court dismissed a petition on Tuesday seeking to scrap the remaining matches of the lucrative Twenty20 cricket competition amid growing concerns about corruption in the sport. Former test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two other players were arrested along with 11 bookmakers on Thursday on suspicion of spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The case has prompted the government to look at the possibility of introducing a law to combat matchfixing and spot-fixing. ...

Bangladesh panel to recommend life in prison over building collapse

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:57:16 +0530

By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - A committee investigating a deadly collapse of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh will recommend that nine people detained in connection with the disaster be sentenced to life in prison, the panel's chief said on Tuesday. The six-member committee, due to submit its conclusions to the government on Thursday, has singled out shoddy construction and the improper issue of building permits as the main reasons for the accident which killed more than 1,100 people. ...

Vindu Dara Singh nabbed for IPL scam links

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:47:22 +0530

Mumbai, May 21 (IANS) A Mumbai magistrate Tuesday sent Bollywood actor Vindu Dara Singh, who was arrested earlier Tuesday for suspected links in the spot-fixing scam in the ongoing IPL tournament, to police custody till May 24.

Court to hear plea seeking IPL ban Wednesday

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:53:13 +0530

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The Delhi High Court is likely to hear Wednesday a plea seeking a ban on Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches till fool-proof measures are taken to stop alleged corrupt practices in sports.

Cops question cricket bookie in Chennai

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:35:14 +0530

Chennai, May 21 (IANS) A day after he surrendered, suspected cricket bookie Prashanth was Tuesday questioned here and documents were seized from his house in connection with a case registered May 17, said police.

Obama to meet with China's Xi in California June 7-8

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:54:03 +0530

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their first meeting since Xi became president in March when they sit down for a June 7-8 summit in Rancho Mirage, California, the White House announced on Monday. The two leaders are likely to discuss ways to apply pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program after a period of bellicose rhetoric and threats from Pyongyang. The United States also has concerns about cyber attacks it says are emanating from China. ...

Strike against media murders cripples Agartala

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:41:39 +0530

Agartala, May 21 (IANS) A dawn-to-dusk strike called by the opposition Congress Tuesday to protest the killing of three newspaper employees paralysed this capital of Left-ruled Tripura.

24 killed in road accidents in Uttar Pradesh

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:33:11 +0530

Lucknow, May 21 (IANS) At least 24 people were killed and over 50 injured in three separate accidents in Uttar Pradesh Tuesday, police said.

Pappu Yadav released from jail

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:15:14 +0530

Patna, May 21 (IANS) Four days after the court acquitted former RJD MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav on charges of killing CPI-M leader Ajit Sarkar, he was formally released from jail here Tuesday, police officials said.

Another arrest in IPL spot fixing case

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:31:12 +0530

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) Former Ranji player Baburao Yadav is the latest to be arrested for spot fixing in the Indian Premier League, Delhi Police said Tuesday.

Brazil's stadiums ready for World Cup soccer warm-up in June

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:52:58 +0530

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took a swipe at the naysayers on Monday as she officially inaugurated the last of six stadiums that Brazil will use next month to host a warm-up for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament. "The pessimists said the stadiums would not be ready in time, but we are showing them today that we can deliver high-quality stadiums," Rousseff said in a speech in Recife before opening the 46,000-seat Arena Pernambuco outside the northeastern Brazilian city. ...

Gay marriage law strains UK Cameron's leadership, government

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:01:54 +0530

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron's flagship gay marriage policy deepened a rift in his own party on Monday after many of his own lawmakers defied him in a sign of growing strains on his leadership and his coalition government. Almost 40 percent of Cameron's 303 lawmakers in the lower house of parliament voted for an ultimately unsuccessful amendment that would have allowed registrars to refuse to perform gay marriage ceremonies if they objected. ...

NC, Congress bicker over quake relief package

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:21:20 +0530

Jammu, May 20 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir's ruling coalition partners National Conference (NC) and Congress sparred over relief to earthquake victims in Doda and Kishtwar districts of the Chenab valley, with leaders of both parties making charges and counter charges against each other.

Minor gang-raped by neighbours in Delhi

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:11:21 +0530

New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) A 17-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang-raped here by three people, including two neighbours, after giving her sedatives, police said Monday.