Package on Air India flight: probe expanded
The discovery of a suspicious package of tools on board an Air India flight leaving Toronto earlier this week is now the focus of an international investigation, Canadian police have said.
Peel Regional Police detective Malcolm Bow said officers were pulled off other cases to help with the investigation, which now involves police outside Canada.
Mr. Bow, who heads Pearson International Airports Criminal Investigations Bureau, however, refused to discuss the scope of the investigation.
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jet to return to Toronto late Monday was not an explosive device but a ``uniquely packaged set of tools, police say.
Flight 188 was about one hour into its flight, which was to include a scheduled stop in Birmingham, England, when a suspicious package was found in one of the washrooms.
Somewhere over Montreal, a passenger was in one of the bathrooms and noticed what he believed to be a suspicious package, said Sgt. Peter Brandwood of Peel Regional Police.
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India to probe new Iraq oil charges
Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, has pledged to probe new allegations that the country's former foreign minister and ruling Congress party corruptly exploited the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq.
"We are determined that truth must prevail in this matter," the Congress party premier told parliament on Friday as opposition members jeered.
"Our government believes in maintaining high standards of probity and transparency in public life and I can assure the house that no one who is guilty will go unpunished."
The pledge followed allegations by Anil Maithrani, India's ambassador to Croatia, that Natwar Singh, the
Dutch to free passengers arrested on flight to India
Dutch authorities will release all 12 passengers arrested on a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for India on Wednesday after concluding they were not planning an attack, prosecutors said on Thursday.
From the statements of suspects and witnesses, no evidence could be brought forward that these men were about to commit an act of violence, a prosecution statement said, adding police had searched for explosives on the plane but found none.
Prosecutors told a news conference the crew had raised the alarm after the men handed each other mobile phones and laptops
Air-India denies breaking DGCA safety regulations
Reacting to the allegations made by Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on duty time of pilots, the national flag carrier, Air-India, said it has strictly followed all the norms and civil aviation requirements (CAR) on flight duties laid down by the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
Raut, a Parliamentary consultative committee member of the ministry of civil aviation, alleged the carrier had violated air safety standards regarding crew training and duty time of pilots, thereby endangering passenger safety.
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India to lobby for its farmers at Hong Kong meet
With an agreement on agriculture continuing to elude members of the World Trade Organisation, developed countries like the US and the European Union are pushing for a package for least-developed countries to be approved at the Hong Kong WTO ministerial meeting.
India and Brazil have said that any such package should extend to developing countries as well. Also, India would not agree to any provision which displaces its farmers.
The measures being considered in the package include duty-and quota-free access to the markets of developed countries and sops to
