Patna, Mar 16 (PTI) Irked over the delay in finalisation of seats in the 'mahagathbandhan', RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav Saturday warned alliance partners that if they were not willing to give up their pride and insisted "on a few more seats", then countrymen would not forgive them.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal heir-apparent's remarks come at a time when less than 48 hours were left for nominations for the first phase of Lok Sabha polls and the grand alliance is yet to announce the number of seats to be fought by different constituents.

Jaipur, Mar 16 (PTI) Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Saturday Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made false promises and had "zero achievements" to highlight.

Addressing public meetings in Jamwa Ramgarh and Bhandrej, Gehlot alleged that Modi had failed to fulfil the promises he had made in the 2014 Lok Sabha election and took wrong decisions.

The senior Congress leader claimed that demonetisation and the hastily-implemented goods and services tax were among the decisions that did not benefit the people.

17 Mar 2019; DW: Flash floods and mudslides in Indonesia's Papua province have killed at least 58 people and injured more than 70 others, local officials said Sunday. Thousands of people have been left homeless.

The flooding was due to torrential rain, which hit the provincial capital of Jayapura beginning Saturday.

Nine villages flooded

ISLAMABAD, March 17 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed and six others injured on Sunday as a bomb blast hit a passenger train in Nasirabad district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, local police said.

District Police Officer Irfan Bashir told media that some unknown miscreants planted an improvised explosive device at the railway track and attacked a passenger train named Jaffar Express in Rabbi Area of Dera Murad Jamali region in Nasirabad.

Raipur, Mar 16 (PTI) Two Naxals were Saturday arrested from Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police said.

The two were identified as Mangesh alias Hurra Majji (43) and Majji Chinna (38) and were held from Rengawaya village under Bedre police station limits, over 450 kilometres from here, an official said.

Security personnel were out on a search-cum-area domination operation in the forests of Waynar, Kodepalli and Rengawaya villages in Bedre when they received a tip-off on the presence of the two Naxals in the area, he said.

17 Mar 2019; DW: Thousands of people marched through the streets of Madrid on Saturday in support of Catalan politicians and activists who are currently on trial for attempting to secede from Spain in October 2017.

Organizers said 120,000 people attended the march, but police estimated about 18,000 people attended the first major separatist march in the Spanish capital.

Mumbai, Mar 17 (PTI) As many as 11,558 unauthorised political advertisements and posters have been removed from Mumbai suburban district ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, an election official said.

Besides, 16 police complaints of such unauthorised boards have also been filed in the last one week as part of implementation of the model code of conduct in the district, he said.

New Delhi, Mar 17 (PTI) A purported video showing the station house officer and two constables of Sarita Vihar Police Station assaulting a 44-year-old shopkeeper in Jasola Vihar here has gone viral on social media.

The incident allegedly took place on Thursday at about 11:45 pm, when the victim, identified as Mohammad Ibrahim, was closing his food joint, officials said.

SANAA, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday threatened to launch ballistic missile attacks on Riyadh and Abu Dhabi if coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) attacked the Yemeni lifeline port city of Hodeidah.

"Our forces stand ready to response to any major attack on Hodeidah," the rebels' military spokesman Yahya Sariee said in a statement.

New Delhi, Mar 16 (PTI) A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her tuition teacher's father in west Delhi's Punjab Bagh area, police said Saturday.

The incident took place on Friday when the minor had gone to attend her tuition in the same locality where she resides, they added.

28-year-old Australian man, Brenton Tarrant, has appeared in court in Christchurch charged with murder following the attack on two mosques yesterday in which 49 people have died. New Zealand police say more charges are likely to be laid. No application for bail was made and he is due to appear in court again on 5 April.

The city has united in grief, with floral tributes being laid at mosques across the country, including at the botanic gardens close to the sites of both attacks.

15 Mar 2019; AFP: The United States announced on Friday it would deny visas to members of the International Criminal Court involved in investigating the actions of US troops in Afghanistan or other countries.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington was prepared to take further steps, including economic sanctions, if the war crimes court goes ahead with any probes of US or allied personnel.