Patna youth hijacks bus in Mumbai, shot

It was just another crowded, peak-hour bus journey for Mumbaikars on board the No 332 BEST bus on Monday morning.

Until one of the passengers — 25-year-old Rahul Raj — pulled out an iron chain and a gun, attacked the bus conductor, and began indiscriminate firing, yelling he wanted to take revenge on Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray .

Thackeray’s MNS loyalists recently set Mumbai and other parts of the country— on fire, attacking candidates from other states appearing for a railway examination in Mumbai.

Forty minutes later, the police cordoned off the area and Rahul, who came to the city three days ago from Bihar, was shot dead.

The police stormed the bus after he refused to surrender. Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil justified the police action: “If anyone uses bullet, obviously he would get a bullet.” Political leaders from Bihar, including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Union ministers Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan met the prime minister and demanded a judicial probe.

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Dubai-based company fires Indian staff

The global financial crisis has claimed more victims in India. Dozens of employees of a Dubai-based company have lost their jobs as the company has put its expansion plans on hold.

The Indicaa Group, which trades in scrap metal and is run by an Indian, had recently hired management graduates, mostly from small towns across India, to work at its overseas offices.

According to estimates available with the candidates, about 120 persons were offered jobs. At least 40 of those hired were from north India.

“The hiring was done from three centres: Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. People from all over the country had applied,” said Anurodh Gupta, a candidate from Ghaziabad, who had undergone training in Ludhiana on October 6 and 7.

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