Indian students cars torched in Oz MELBOURNE: Adelaide-based foreign students,mainly Indians,have complained of being terrorised by a gang of teens who allegedly torched three of their cars in firebomb attacks,the latest in a slew of such strikes described by the community as racial. The students living in Greenacres suburb said the early morning firebomb attacks have scared them. CBI seeks transfer of Jnaneswari case KOLKATA: The CBI on Wedneday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking transfer of the Jnaneswari Express derailment case from West Midnapore to Kolkata for security reasons. Praying for the cases transfer,CBIs counsel Himangshu Dey submitted before Justice Asim Roy that taking the route to Jhargram ACJM court from the jail through open roads surrounded by dense forests posed a security risk. Justice Roy fixed the next date of hearing on July 21. Now,berries in cold deserts,border areas NEW DELHI: The high-altitude,flame-coloured seabuckthorn berries are set to get a new lease of life. The Ministry of Environment and Forests,on Wednesday,with the Defence Research and Development Organisation,announced a national initiative to grow seabuckthorn in cold-deserts and border areas,in a bid to raise the crop as well as protect high-altitude ecosystems. HIV positive woman commits suicide PANAJI: A HIV positive woman committed suicide by jumping from the first floor of the Goa Medical College building here on Tuesday on being informed about the infection. We are inquiring into the incident. We cant make a detailed statement at this juncture, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said. The 38-year-old woman jumped when she was allegedly told about her HIV positive status. SC: Case against Naidu politically motivated NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday provided relief to former Andhra CM N Chandrababu Naidu by upholding a high court judgment that a corruption case against him was politically motivated. A Bench of Justices Markandeya Katju and T S Thakur dismissed a petition filed by former state Congress legal cell chief Naguluri Krishna Kumar Goud in which he accused Naidu and 69 others of committing irregularities in allotment of liquor licenses and causing a loss of about Rs 500 crore to the state exchequer.
