Webinfosys's Local News : Father kills daughter for family honour

BANGA(Punjab): Yet another young life has been snuffed out in the name of honour killing, this time in the Rajput community, in Nawanshahr district.

Hearing of his 17-year-old daughter's relationship with a relative, Raghbir Singh allegedly poisoned Manpreet Kaur to death. Police arrested Raghbir and sent the ashes and bones of the deceased for forensic tests.

"Raghbir used to scold Manpreet because of her relationship with the boy, the son of her mother's cousin and also related to her father. But Manpreet, who completed Plus Two this year, continued seeing the boy, who is unemployed," said a police officer involved with the investigations.

Banga SHO Lakhbir Singh told TOI that Raghbir had given a complaint to the police saying his daughter had threatened to commit suicide over the relationship.

"On June 3, he poisoned the girl at around 8 am with tablets and she died within minutes. He then informed his relatives and friends in the village that Manpreet had died all of a sudden."

Passing it off as a natural death, Raghbir cremated Manpreet’s body on June 3 afternoon but some cops present in the village at that time, grew suspicious.

"When we questioned the father, he confessed to killing his daughter," said Lakhbir Singh.

Police also recovered the container in which the tablets were stored. The SHO said, "The father said when his pleas with his daughter fell on deaf ears, he was left with no option but to save his family's honour."

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Webinfosys's Local News : Oil prices break record; surge to $139 a barrel

NEW YORK: Oil prices have shot up more than $11 to a new record above $139 after Morgan Stanley predicted prices would hit $150 by July 4.

Oil's meteoric surge, which pushed prices more than 8 per cent higher in a single day, added to a huge increase on Thursday to cap oil's biggest two-day gain in the history of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The burst higher - which also came on rising Middle East tensions - also raised the prospect of accelerating inflation by adding to already strained transportation costs.

That gloomy outlook sent stocks tumbling, taking the Dow Jones industrials nearly 400 points.

Light, sweet crude for July delivery jumped as high as $139.12 on the Nymex, before easing slightly to settle at $138.54, up $10.75. Prices hit a previous record of $135.09 a barrel on May 22, and settled Thursday at $127.79.

Brent crude on the ICE futures exchange settled $10.15 higher at a record $137.69 a barrel, after hitting an all-time high of $138.12 a barrel.

Prices pushed sharply higher on Thursday after Morgan Stanley analyst Ole Slorer predicted strong demand in Asia could drive prices to $150 by American Independence Day (July 4), when millions of citizens are expected to take to the roads. Slorer said shipments from the Middle East are mimicking patterns seen in the third quarter last year, when Morgan Stanley based an oil price spike prediction on falling supplies in the Atlantic.

Traders also zeroed in on remarks by an Israeli Cabinet minister, who was quoted as saying his country will attack Iran if it doesn't abandon its nuclear programme. Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz added that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "will disappear before Israel does," the Yediot Ahronot daily reported.

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Webinfosys's Local News : In China, Pranab pitches for pan-Asian grouping

NEW DELHI: India on Friday proposed a new security architecture for Asia, but ran out of steam by failing to define it with any confidence.

At an address to Peking University, foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee said, "We will need to evolve a security architecture which takes into account the conditions prevailing in Asia."

Arguing for "an open and inclusive architecture", Mukherjee said it should not merely transplant ideas from the West.

"Nor should we seek to create such sub-regional security arrangements that are narrow and ultimately ineffective," Mukherjee told his audience at the university.

In this, India is obliquely echoing the US distaste for a China-driven East Asian security order. Instead, India plumped for a pan-Asian security vision which stretches from Central Asia to East Asia. India cited the Asean Regional Forum (ARF), Comprehensive International Cooperative Association (CICA) and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) as organizations that could be the bedrock for such an arrangement.

Mukherjee said, "As two major countries in Asia, India and China should try to work together to evolve a new framework from these basic building blocks." India is merely an observer at SCO with slim hopes of ever becoming a member.

In the ARF, it is one among the 20-odd members of the organization, which is clearly not very effective. In East and South-East Asia, China's presence is overwhelming. But, India hesitated to provide an alternate vision.

China has resolutely opposed India's presence in any relevant Asian security architecture. It blocked India in the ASEAN+3, which prompted India to go for the East Asia Summit. It has been livid about the idea of a 'quadrilateral' among India, US, Japan and Australia, and protested loudly against the 2007 Malabar exercises which included all these countries.

India's proposal fails to even provide an overview of the new architecture that it envisages. There is no definition of what the new grouping is expected to accomplish. Protecting the sea lanes of communication (SLOCs) has been done by India and other states anyway and certainly cannot be the prime driver for a security architecture.

On Wednesday, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd proposed his version of a security architecture which includes India and China and proposes to solve problems as diverse as Taiwan and Kashmir. Over the weekend, US defence secretary Robert Gates outlined the US vision for Asian security at the IISS Shangri-La — which involves US' regional security alliances.

"The US notes the stirrings of a new regionalism, a pan-Asian search for new frameworks," he said but added that it "should not be a zero-sum game, should not exclude any country".

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