Abduct

A Chinese tourist and a Filipino worker have been rescued nearly two months after they were abducted from a resort off Borneo island, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Friday.

Gunmen have kidnapped three workers including a Chinese and an Algerian from an oilfield in Sudan`s West Kordofan province, the army said today.

An Army man was Monday taken into custody by Neredmet Police here for allegedly trying to abduct and misbehave with a 19-year-old girl student.

The 22 crew including a Keralite engineer on board Italian oil tanker Savina Caylyn, released by Somalian pirates is expected to reach Dubai on January 7 next, relatives of a crew member said here on Wednesday.

Father of a three-year-old girl was arrested for kidnapping her, Chandigarh Police said Friday.

The Shebab have waged bloody battles to topple the
Western-backed Somali government.

A young woman has accused two Army
personnel of "abduction and rape" in Kulgam district of south
Kashmir, official sources said on Thursday.

Suspected Maoists abducted a
police constable and his father-in-law from Mohuli village on
the West Bengal-Jharkhand border.

Parvati Majhi, mother of
junior engineer Pabitra Majhi on Thursday expressed relief at
the release of her son and urged the Maoists to free
Malkangiri district Collector R V Krishna without further
delay.

West Bengal Government`s
apparent inaction to trace a kidnapped police officer and a
school teacher even four months after their abduction comes in
for sharp criticism from several quarters.

In a mass outpouring of concern
for abducted Malkangiri district Collector R V Krishna and an
engineer, people from various sections of society took out
peace rallies at several places in Orissa for the second day
on Friday.

Maoists abducted a railway station master and four members of a family in two separate incidents in Jharkhand`s Garhwa District.

Arunachal Pradesh Home Minister
Tako Dabi on Friday ordered a joint operation by Army,
Para-military forces and state police at Kharsang in Changlang
district to trace an abducted employee of APMDTCL.

Search operations have been
intensified to trace the five personnel of Chhattisgarh Armed
Force, abducted by suspected Maoists from Narayanpur district
of the state, police said on Thursday.

A leader of the ruling
CPI-M`s youth wing, who was abducted by suspected Maoists from
Naxal-affected Lalgarh, was found murdered today on a bridge
there, police sources said.

The four Turkish engineers worked for a firm which built border posts.

Nineteen days after their
abduction from West Bengal`s Purulia district, IB Inspector
Partha Biswas and his teacher friend Soumyajit Basu remained
untraced.

Suspected Maoists abducted two local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders from Jharkhand`s Latehar district Sunday afternoon.

In a positive response to the talks with the government, Maoists have released four abducted cops on Wednesday in Chhattisgarh.

A mayor in northern Mexico has
been abducted by an unidentified gang, according to
authorities in Nuevo Leon state, across from Texas, amid a
wave of drug-related violence.