Timeline of Muzaffarnagar riots: eve-teasing incident led to murders, then riots

New Delhi:  It was an eve-teasing incident that led to the murders of three youths, which later escalated into a major conflagration between two communities engulfing the town of Muzaffarnagar. 
Following is the timeline of Muzaffarnagar violence: 

August 27: In Kawal village, an eve-teasing incident led to the murders of Shah Nawaz, and soon followed by killings of two youths, Sachin and Gaurav. 

Aug 28: A mob returning from the cremation ground indulges in arson. 

Aug 29: Stoning between both sides. Women devotees molested near a place of worship. 

Aug 30 - Huge mob assembles at a place of worship in Shaheed Chowk after Friday prayers. 

Aug 31 - Nearly 40,000 people assemble at Nangla Mandoud  Panchayat. Mob attacs a family goig in a car on Khatima road, sets fire to their car. 

Sept 1 - Police files FIRs against leaders who had spoken at meetings in Shahid Chowk and Nangla Mandoud. Affected family in Malikpura threatens self-immolation. 

Sept 2 - Walls of places of worship broken in Sanjhak and Titavi. BJP calls Muzaffarnagar bandh.

Sept 3 - Case against MLA Sangeet Som for circulating fake video of Kawal incident. Violence in Shamli town. 

Sept 4 - Sporadic violence in Muzaffarnagar. 

Sept 5 - Mahabandh call given across Muzaffarnagar district. 

Sept 6 - Bharatiya Kisan Union calls panchayat at Nangla Mandoud. Sit-in outside jail. 

Sept 7 - People going to panchayat attacked. Firing from both sides in Muzaffarnagar town as stoning, arson go unabated. Army called in and town put under indefinite curfew.  10 killed, more than a score injured in violence.

13 Maoists killed in fierce Odisha gunbattle

Malkangiri, September 14

At least 13 Maoists, including a woman, are believed to be behind the May 25 attack on a Congress convoy at Darba Ghat in Chhattisgarh,were killed in an encounter with security forces in a forest area of Malkangiri district early today. One rebel was captured after the encounter.

The group had been camping in the forest. A joint team of special operations group (SOG) and district voluntary force (DVF) raided a camp site in Silakuta forest in Padia area bordering Chhattisgarh after a tip-off, said DIG Devdutt Singh.

The Maoists opened fire leading to a gun battle, killing 13 members. “The bodies of 13 Maoists were recovered while another rebel was captured by the security personnel after the encounter,” said Malkangiri SP Akhilesh Singh as the police intensified combing operation in the area.

Akhilesh, who led the operation, said explosives, arms and ammunition, and Maoist literature were seized from the scene. The DIG described the operation a major success in the drive against Maoists in the region.

World's oldest man passes away

GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. - The world's oldest man, a 112-year-old self-taught musician, coal miner and gin rummy aficionado from western New York, has died. He was 112.

Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez died Friday at a nursing home in Grand Island, according to Robert Young, senior gerontology consultant with Guinness World Records.

Sanchez-Blazquez became the world's oldest man when Jiroemon Kimura died June 12 at age 116.

Born June 8, 1901, in the village of El Tejado de Bejar, Spain, he was known for his talent on the dulzaina, a double-reed wind instrument that he taught himself and played at weddings and village celebrations. At 17, he moved with his older brother Pedro and a group of friends to Cuba, where they worked in the cane fields.

In 1920, he came to the United States through Ellis Island and worked in the coal mines of Lynch, Kentucky. Ultimately, he moved to the Niagara Falls area of New York, where he worked in construction and in the industrial furnaces. He married his wife, Pearl, in 1934.

A spokeswoman for Sanchez-Blazquez's family did not immediately return a phone message Saturday.

In a statement provided by Guinness World Records earlier this summer, Sanchez-Blazquez — whose nickname was "Shorty" — said he was humbled by the attention, saying he didn't feel he accomplished anything special just because he has lived longer than most.

"He says, 'I'm an old man and let's leave it at that,'" his daughter, 69-year-old Irene Johnson, said at the time. Sanchez-Blazquez lived with Johnson in Grand Island after his wife died in 1988; he moved to a nursing home in 2007.

"We did our best," Johnson said. "We weren't going to put him somewhere just because he was old."

Sanchez-Blazquez had said his longevity was attributed to eating one banana per day and his daily dose of six Anacin tablets. His daughter had another theory.

"I think it's just because he's an independent, stubborn man," she said.

Besides his daughter, Sanchez-Blazquez had a 76-year-old son, John, seven grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.

Guinness says the world's oldest person is a woman, 115-year-old Misao Okawa of Japan.

Young said 90 per cent of all supercentenarians are female and Sanchez-Blazquez had been the only male born in 1901 with proof of birth.

Arturo Licata, 111, of Italy, is now the leading candidate to be officially recognized by Guinness as the current world's oldest man, according to Young. Guinness will make a pronouncement on Licata at a later date.

The oldest authenticated person was Jeanne Louise Calment of France, who died at the age of 122 years and 164 days.