Some people has burnt alive a hindu priest in a Bihar village on Thursday, police said today.
An official of Police said that the Sudama Das, a mahant of the Thangar Math, was attacked over a land dispute in Pawar village under the Pawna police station in Bhiojpur district, about 70 km from Patna.
The police have filed a case & investigating the matter.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 struck the parts of Delhi & Haryana experienced mild tremors of 3.4 magnitude at 23:09 pm on Thursday night. There was no immedite reports of any casualties.
The epicentre of this eathquake was in Sonepat in Haryana, about 40 km from Delhi at latitude 29.0 north & longitude 77.1 east.
The tremors were not unusual since Delhi lies in seismological zone IV. People in many high-rise buildings rushed out of their houses.

Police has arrested at least 44 persons at Hosur near Krishnagiri on Thursday when they tried to block a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus in retaliation to the protests by pro-Kannada groups in Karnataka opposing the Hogenakkal Integrated Water Project.
They were protesting against attacks on cinemas screening Tamil movies as well as Tamil Sangam office in Bangalore by the groups, police said.
Special Task Force & Special Police teams were posted at Jujuvadi, bordering Tamil Nadu & Karnataka as a ….

Chattrapal the kidnapper of Adobe executive’s son has been arrested on Wednesday, Police said today.
Chattrapal, the main accused in the kidnapping of former Adobe executive Naresh Gupta’s son Anant, who escaped from a court premises in February, has been arrested.
Chattrapal was arrested last night by a Special Operations Group team of Uttar Pradesh police from his home in Rabupura, his native town in the state.
Chattrapal, who was in judicial custody, escaped after giving a slip to two constables on February ….

Police has arrested three top militants of Hizbul Mujahideen including a self-styled district commander from Kupwara district of Jammu & Kashmir, an official of Police said on Thursday.
The militants identified as Mudasir Shabir Ganai alias Ali, district commander, Parvaiz Ahmad Wani alias Mubashir & Nisar Ahmad were arrested from Gund-Chogal in Handwara area of the district on Wednesday.
The official also said that two AK-47 rifles & six magazines, 125 rounds, a pistol with its one magazine & four rounds, three ….

A 13 years old Class VII student was found dead in the Bisrakh area of Greater Noida, Police said on Thursday. One of the victim’s schoolmates has been nabbed for questioning.
The body of Himanshu Joshi, a student of Ghaziabad’s Shevron School, was discovered just off the highway about 8.30pm on Tuesday with wounds on the neck, chest & forehead, all inflicted by sharp-edged weapons. Himanshu was the son of Harish Chand Joshi, a local BJP leader & businessman in Ghaziabad.
The ….

Sonia Gandhi the charperson of UPA will adress a tribal rally in Baneshwar-Dham on Thursday, Congress source said today.
She would also interact with tribal people, especially women who have been given jobs under National Employment Guarantee Scheme.

After the crossing over the India border with his wife Begam Shaheen Burney & son at the Attari check-post, Burney advocated joint repatriation of prisoners of both countries who had been languishing in jails even after the completion of their sentence. However, he said he had no sympathy for the terrorists in any part of the world who killed innocent persons.
Ansar Burney said, “I shall submit ….

Sotheby’s, one of the biggest auction house of London, has announced that the rare body armour did not belong to the tenth Guru Guru Gobind Singh Ji, SGPC in Amritsar has constitued a six-number committe to ascertain the genuineness of the relic.
The six members of the committee are Dr Jasdev Singh rai of UK, Baba Mohinder Singh of Nishkam Seva of UK, Dr. Kharak singh of Chandigarh, Dr. Gurnek Singh & Dr. Sukhdayal Singh of Punjabi University, Patiala ….

Gurmit Singh Rahim Singh the chief of Dera Sacha Sauda’s petition for quashing cases registered against him by the CBI was on Thursday dismissed as withdrawn before Justice Lakshmi Mittal.
The petitioner is facing allegations of involvement in the murder of Sirsa-based scribe Ram Chander Chhatrapati, former dera manager Ranjit Singh of Khanpur Kaulian village in Kurukshetra district & the rape of the dera inmate.

An eight years old girl has been found hanging from an iron bar placed across a window. The eight-year-old girl died while enacting before her younger brother, the scene of a suicide she saw on television.
An official of Police said that the fifth standard student, while playing with her five years old brother Appu on Tuesday in the absence of her parents, attempted to demonstrate the scene of the hanging, she saw in a TV serial.
While enacting the scene, she ….

Mahendra Singh Tikait farmer leader has been released on bail on wednesday. Mahendra Singh Tikait was arrested on Wedensday at his son’s house in Muzaffarnagar on Wednesday. He was arrested for his alleged castiest remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati but now he got bail for RS 20,000.
Earlier, Tikait said that his castiest remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati were “a mistake” & that he would surrender. Tikait said, “I consider this is a mistake. It was a ….

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) & Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) members on Wednesday clashed with each other in Pune in which three people have been injured. The incident, which took place near the CPM office, is a fallout of the fighting between the CPM & RSS activists in Kannur in Kerala last month when seven people were killed.
The violence in Kannur also spread to other cities including Delhi, where the CPM headquarters was attacked. The Rapid Action Force had to ….

Karnataka Assembly elections will be held in three phases on May 10, 16 & 22, the Election Commission announced on Wednesday. The Counting of votes will take place on May 25.
Polling in the first phase will be held on May 10 & would cover 89 constituencies, while the second phase will cover the 66 constituencies with polling on 16 May & the third phase will be held on May 22 & will cover 69 constituencies.
The date of nominations for fist ….

Karnataka bandh on April 14 has announced by Kannada groups on Tuesday to protest Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi’s statement that his government would go ahead with the controversial Hogenakkal water project.
Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, which is leading the protests, said Tamil films would not be allowed to be screened in the state and Tamil channels would be blacked out until Tamil Nadu withdraws from the project.
He said that its activists would block buses & trains heading to Tamil Nadu. ….

A landmine blast has been triggered by suspected extremists which injured five policemen near Vishnugarh in Hazaribag district.
An official of Police said that they triggered the landmine planted below a culvert on Wednesday morning when the police vehicle passed over it.
The injured policemen were admitted to Hazaribag Sadar Hospital.

Ansar Burney the Pakistani human rights activist & former Minister has arrived in India. Burney was received at the border by Punjab Information & Public Relations Minister Bikram Singh Majithia. He might meet family members of other Indian prisoners languishing in Pakistani jails, including Kirpal Singh.
He will also meet Sarabjit Singh’s kin. He visit Punjab in a bid to persuade Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal to release ….

Three activists, including a trainer of banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), have been arrested on Wednesday by the Madhya Pradesh police.
A senior official of Police said today, “The trio identified as Amaan, Zakir Lala & Irfan Chhipa have been arrested from different places this morning”.
The official said that the Amaan was engaged in training SIMI activists, while Zakir had been the local chief of the banned outfit. Chhipa was nabbed for helping SIMI & carrying out other ….

Mahendra Singh Tikait farmer leader on Wednesday said that his castiest remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati were “a mistake” and that he would surrender. Mahendra Singh Tikait was arrested on Wedensday at his son’s house in Muzaffarnagar. Tikait said, “I consider this is a mistake. It was a slip of the tongue. It is human to commit a mistake”.
Tikait also said, “It was a slip of tongue & I used wrong words. She is like my daughter. I ….

The Goa government on Wednesday formally decided to seek a CBI probe into the death of British teenager Scarlett Keeling. A senior official of Police said, “The state government has given its nod for the transfer of the case to the CBI. All the formalities in this regard will be completed in the next couple of days”.
The official said that the government will be completing the paperwork in the next day or two after which the central agency will ….