Iranian boat seized

JAMNAGAR: The Indian Coast Guard have seized an Iranian fishing boat off the Gujarat coast, it was announced on Sunday. The Iranian boat, with 19 onboard, was fishing illegally in the Indian waters and seized 127 nautical miles from the Dwaraka lighthouse in Gujarat on Saturday at 7 pm. The commander of the coast guard ship filed a complaint at Okha police station. — HNS

300 trapped in China

YICHANG: Disaster relief teams on Sunday stretched to rescue more than 300 people in a village in central China that had been nearly totally buried under a massive mudslide. Continuous rain triggered a landslide of 60,000 cubic meters of mud, which swept a village at the Three Gorges Dam area in Hubei province on Saturday afternoon. The rain had washed away 20,000 cubic meters of the mud in Xiaohe Village of Gaoyang township, by Sunday morning, said a government spokesman. — Xinhua

Fire in CGO complex

NEW DELHI: A minor fire broke out on the seventh floor of the CGO complex on Lodhi Road here on Sunday morning. However, there was no casualty in the fire. At least eight fire tenders and six fire units were deployed to put out the blaze in the multi-storey complex housing various central government offices, said fire service officials. — HNS

One held for carnage

AHMEDABAD: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed by the Supreme Court to inquire into cases of the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, has arrested a long time absconder in the infamous Gulbarg massacre. In its first arrest after it was formed March 25, the team on Saturday nabbed Parbat Thakore from Banaskantha district, official sources said on Sunday. Thakore is accused of involvement in the Gulbarg case. — HNS

Croc kills smuggler

YANGON: A crocodile attacked and killed a man who was under arrest for alleged illegal logging in Myanmar, the country’s state-run newspaper reported on Sunday. Myint Zaw was being transported by forest rangers in a boat in the Ayeywarwaddy river delta when the crocodile knocked him out of the boat and killed him, the Myanmar-language Kyemondaily reported. Myint Zaw and three other men were arrested last month for possession of smuggled mangrove trees. — AP

Minister’s kin held

JAMMU: The police have arrested Jammu and Kashmir Health and Medical Education Minister Mangat Ram Sharma’s grandson after a brawl at a bar in the Jammu city Saturday night. Nitin Sharma, grandson of the minister, has been arrested under section 125 of the Indian Arms Act after he pulled out a pistol and cocked it. He threatened to shoot the men with whom he had the brawl. — HNS

Orissa heat wave

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa is in the grip of intense heat wave with the mercury crossing 41 degrees Celsius in parts of the state. According to news reports, 10 people have died of heat-related reasons. Jharsuguda town in western Orissa recorded the highest 43 degrees Celsius temperature on Friday. The town witnessed 42.2 degrees Celsius on Saturday. The maximum temperatures recorded on Saturday were in Bhubaneswar 39.4 degrees Celsius, Cuttack 40.5, Chandbali 39.6 and Keonjhar 40.2 degrees Celsius, an official here of the Meteorological Department said. — HNS

Munde resigns

MUMBAI: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gopinath Munde on Sunday sent his resignation from the party to its president Rajnath Singh. Some BJP officials here said he was unhappy with the manner in which the party’s Mumbai and Maharashtra affairs were being run. — HNS