Death warrant out for Sarabjit Singh
Sarabjit Singh an Indian prisoner in pakistan condemned to death for his alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in Pakistan in 1990, will be hanged soon. An official said that the death warrant for Sarabjit was received by authorities at Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore where he has been held for the last 17 years & will be executed on April 1.
Pervej Musharraf president of Pakistan had already rejected the mercury petetion of Sarabjit Singh ….
Noida flyover opened without fanfare, speeches
Noida flyover opened without any fanfare, speeches. There were no chief guests & not any official.
Motorists this week started using the Kalindi Kunj to Golf Course link of the clover leaf built at the Dadri Road-Golf Course Road (Sector 37) crossing. The link is aimed at facilitating smooth entry of traffic from Delhi and Faridabad into Noida.
This is the third instance when commuters opened a flyover or a link on their own in Noida. First, the 6.5-km long flyover from ….
Train crushed two boys to death
Train had crushed two young boys to death who were playing near railway tracks in Seelampur. The boys, 8 years old & 10 years, were yet to be identified. The police said the incident took place around 2 pm on Sunday.
An official said, “Both had severe head injuries & they suffered excessive blood loss”.
Identity of the boys was yet to be established. The official said that they were local slum residents but locals residents said that the two were outsiders.
Bomb Blast in Dhemaji district in Assam
At least 1 person was killed & 20 injured in a powerful bomb blast by the banned ULFA in upper Assam’s Dhemaji district around midnight on Saturday.
An official said that the bomb exploded in an open field where a local festival Ali-Aie-Lrigang (Lrigang) was being celebrated near the telephone exchange at Jonai.
The injured had been taken to hospital. Police rushed to the spot where the bomb was exploded.
The ULFA has intensified its violent activities in the state since the ….
Blast in local train in Mumbai
A minor blast occured in local train in Mumbai on Saturday in which three persons were injured.
The explosion occurred at 12.55 pm in central Mumbai’s Sion station.
Railway Police Commissioner A K Sharma said the cause of the explosion has not been known as yet. The injured have been shifted to nearby Lokmanya Tilak Memorial Hospital.
Rahul Gandhi will visit Dalit family in Etawah
Rahul Gandhi the general secretary of Congress will visit Etawah on Saturday to meet the Dalit family, whose five members were killed over a land dispute. Five members of a Dalit family were shot dead allegedly by members of the same community over a land dispute at Aminabad village in the district on Friday.
An official of Congress said that Rahul Gandhi will be reaching the village tomorrow morning.
The Amethi MP`s visit is seen as an attempt to strengthen base of ….
Woman suicide bomber arrested
Woman suicide bomber who was planning to attack on the Dera sacha sauda chief Baba Ram Rahim was arrested on Thursday by police. Parveen is only 21 years old & she is studying in B.A part1. She was arrested from patiala.
Ram Rahim was attacked by some unidentified youths on February 2, 2008. A blast on 2 February was hit cavalcade of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Baba Ram Rahim Gurmeet Singh in Haryana but Dera ….
10 years old Sanjeev burnt to death in Alipur
Five drunk members of a marriage party burnt a 10 years old boy to death in Alipur village on the outskirts of the capital on Thursday night. The burnt body of Sanjeev was found one km inside an agricultural village in Alipur on yesterday.
Though police said it was not yet clear as to what led to the murder, locals claim the boy, who was riding a bicycle, was hit by the vehicle of a marriage party travelling to Alipur village ….
Manmohan Singh on two-day Varanasi visit
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit to the varanasi on Friday. Manmohan Singh will cover a long distance between BHU guest house to Dashaswamedh by car on Friday evening.
Hectic preparations were going on in all the areas & routes from where the motorcade would pass. After landing in BHU, he would go the Kashi Vishwanath temple & Dashaswamedh to see “ganga-aarti”. An official said that the all encroachments along the route were removed.
The administration has also made arrangements to provide ….
Sonia Gandhi will inaugurate Shamshabad airport
Sonia Gandhi the chairperson of UPA will arrive in Hyderabad on Friday for one day visit to Andhra Pradesh. She will inaugurate Shamshabad’s airport the country’s most modern international airport near Hyderabad.
Sonia Gandhi will be recieve at Rajahmundry in East Godavari district & then she will visit Tadipudi Pushkara irrigation project. She will then address a public meeting at Jaggampet in the district. The Congress President will proceed to Warangal district for a visit to the prestigious Devadula project billed ….
Sixteen Maoists surrender in Bihar on Thursday
Sixteen Maoists in Muzaffarpur surrendered & handed over a huge cache of arms to the police on Thursday. Five were wanted in several criminal cases from those sixteen Maoists who were surrendered in Muzaffarpur District.
An official of police said that the naxalites handed over 50 kg explosives, six detonators, two landmines, seven pistols, four rifles, two guns & several rounds of ammunition. The official said, “We will be giving the rehabilitation package to each of them in accordance with the ….
1700 BSNL phones not working in Pune
At least 1,700 subscribers of BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) at Yerawada have been facing a tough time for the past few days as their landlines have either been cut off. An official of BSNL that the excavation work is being carrying out by the Pune Municipal Corporation for the disruption in the service.
The official said, “On Tuesday, we restored around 600 telephone lines near Deccan College. The line was damaged again at night as the road was dug ….
17 years old girl found dead in Delhi
Poonam who was 17 years old found dead after committed suicide in the national capital apparently due to failure in relationship. Poonam, a class 12 student girl of Government School in Sahadra, was found hanging in her residence at Loni road on Sunday night.
A suicide note was recovered from her body which indicated a failure in her relationship with a man. However, her family denied this by saying that she was under depression for sometime due to poor performance in ….
Gangster Pushpraj Yadav shot dead
Pushpraj Yadav a gangster who was 31 years old was shot dead in an encounter by Special Task Force in Madhya Pradesh. Pushpraj had shot down a head constable, Vinay Yadav, in Maninagar in November 8, 2007. He had been absconding since then.
Vinay along with a constable had approached Pushpraj & two others who were loitering suspiciously near a bank in Maninagar. When Vinay tried to give Pushpraj a body search, the latter suddenly fished out a pistol and ….
A man died after drinking cola
Man who was 26 years old died & two of his friends & a shopkeeper fell ill, after drinking a soft drink in Seelampur area of north-east Delhi. The police suspect that the drink, which was being sold under the name of a multinational company was adulterated. Police have sent the samples for a lab. test.
The incident happened around 7.45 pm on Friday & all four victims were residents of Chauhan Bangar. They were rushed to LNJP hospital where Kamaruddin ….
2 girls injured by Blueline in an accident
Two women named as Deepika 19 years old & Nisha 20 years old who were on scooty, were hit by a tempo from behind on an intersection near Vaishno Mata Mandir at Haridas Marg. When the duo fell from their two-wheeler, a speeding Blueline bus, coming from other side, allegedly ran over Deepika’s leg.
She was immediately rushed to Jeevanbala Hospital where the doctors termed her condition stable. Nisha, fortunately, sustained only minor injuries requiring only first aid. The victims are ….
High alert in Mumbai & Delhi
The Government has warned the Delhi & Mumbai Police of possible terrorists attacks at important locations in the cities. In a letter to the Delhi Police, the Home Ministry said that terrorists could target important places such as the CBI headquarters or the IIT campus in the near future.
In Mumbai, the Bombay Stock Exchange has been cited as the possible target.
North India faces Power cut due to transmission snag
A power cut due to frequent tripping of transmission lines hit the large parts of the northern region including Delhi & Haryana. This kind of problem arises when fog gets deposited in transmission lines. An official said, “There was very heavy fog on Thursday night in western Uttar Pradesh, Delhi & Haryana leading to frequent tripping of transmission lines in these regions”.
Managing Director of PowerGrid Corporation & other senior officials, has been working at the regional load dispatch ….
S M Krishna resigned on Wednesday
S M Krishna a senior Congress leader on Wednesday resigned as Maharashtra Governor after the party asked him to take the plunge in the fight against a resurgent BJP & a well-rooted JD.
Krishna who was a former Chief Minister of Karnataka also, met President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhawan & conveyed his decision to resign after just over three years in the gubernatorial post in Mumbai. A little later, he sent his resignation.
S M Krishna “I will go back ….
Advani: “Allegations against NDA are false”
Lal Krishna Advani on Wednesday rejected the charges levelled by the Prime Minister on the previous BJP-led NDA government on issues like internal security & agriculture.
Lal Krishna Advani said, “All allegations on the NDA government are false & baseless”. Adwani said that the Prime Minister’s reply had no mention about questions raised by the Opposition on crucial issues like internal security & the execution of the death sentence of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.