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Neighbours of an Indian family killed in a murder-suicide grappled with allegations on Sunday that the man accused in the shooting in a small California agricultural town was a former Indian army officer wanted for years for murder in his homeland. HT Image News of Saturday s shooting boomeranged through the area s close-knit Indian community, which numbers 15,500 in Fresno County, including about 750 in Selma, a small town surrounded by vineyards and peach orchards and known as the Raisin Capital of the World. The majority of Indians in the area are Punjabi Sikhs, like the family. Authorities have said the former officer, Avtar Singh, shot his wife and two children and gravely wounded a third child early stanley cup Saturday before turning the gun on himself. Investigators were still trying to determine a motive. O stanley cup ur community is completely shocked, said Rajbir Singh Pannu, president of the town s Sikh temple. It s a really bad misfortune, especially for the children who died. Anybody who takes somebody s life, in our religion that s cowardice. It was just more than a year ago that Singh was arrested after his wife said he had choked her. That set off a process that prompted the Indian government to seek his extradition days later in the 1996 death of a prominent lawyer and human rights activist in Kashmir, a disputed region in the Himalayas. Singh, who in recent years operated a small trucking business in Selma, was released on bail after last year s arrest. stanley cup It Tvmu British PM to chair emergency meet on Nairobi siege
Engines for Russia s new Superjet-100 airliner have failed to receive certification as they have several significant flaws, a business daily said on Tuesday. HT Image The Superjet-100 project is a family of medium-haul passenger aircraft developed by the Sukhoi aircraft maker in cooperation with the US and European aviation corporations, including Boeing, Snecma, Thales, Messier Dowty, Liebherr Aerospace and Honeywell. Russian deputy industry and trade minister Denis Manturov, who heads the commission to monitor Superjet s production, prepared a report unveiling the current problems and obstacles in the way of certification, the paper said. Certification had not yet been granted as the aircraft successfully completed only 25 percent of the flight tests on electronics and 60 percent of safety tests, the paper quoted the report as saying. The document also said Superjet s SaM146 engines, designed by PowerJet, a joint stanley cup venture by F stanley cup rance s Snecma and Russia s NPO Saturn, had several significant drawbacks. Among them was an increased weight and excessive fuel consumption. Sukhoi started the engine certification programme in February 2009 and plans to run certification tests in line with European, the US and Russ adidas campus ian standards, which would allow the plane to operate without restrictions anywhere in the world. The aircraft maker plans to manufacture at least 700 Superjet-100s, and intends to sell 35 percent of them to North America, 25 percent to Europe, 10 percent to