The Vishav Hindu Prashid nationwide “chakka jam” has affected normal life. Major Highways have been blocked by the activists of the VHP. The VHP began its nationwide protest against the cancellation of land transfer to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board by blocking roads & trains across the country.
In Chhattisgarh, protestors laid siege to dozens of busy squares in capital Raipur besides bringing traffic to a halt at ….

Shoot-at-sight orders have been issued on Wednesday in Kishtwar town, rocked by communal clashes over the Amarnath issue, even as fresh violence erupted in Srinagar with protesters pelting stones at security personnel in several areas in the city.
There are various Incidents of stone pelting by protesters reported from Safakadal, Nawakadal, Fatehkadal, Karan Nagar, Natipora, Chanapora & Bemina areas in Srinagar city.
In Kishtwar town, hit by communal clashes yesterday, shoot-at-sight order were announced over public address system installed in police vehicles ….

Delhi residents are facing Traffic jams as heavy rains drenched national capital on Wednesday. The minimum temperature recorded was 26.6 degree Celsius, one point above normal while the maximum was 30.5 degrees, a deviation of three points.
The city received 23.0 mm rains in an hour. The Met office has predicted a cloudy sky with a few spells of rain and thunder showers in the next 24 hours.

Taslima Nasreen, a Bangladeshi writer, has on Friday returned after spending after spending more than four months in Sweden. The 45 years old Bangladeshi writer, who has been a target of Islamic fundamentalists, arrived at the Indira Gandhi International airport in morning &was immediately whisked away by security agencies to an undisclosed destination.
Taslima Nasreen was dramatically bundled out from West Bengal in November last year. She had left India on March 18 for Sweden after she was kept in a ….

A minor explosion has been occurred in Nagarabhavi area of Bangalore on Friday. The explosives were kept in a dustbin in Nagarbhavi area, near Mysore Road in Bangalore, a private news agency reported.
A police team has been rushed to the spot to investigate the cause of the explosion.

At least three children have been injured after a bomb blast at Shantipara, one km from New Jalpaiguri Railway station & the bomb squad recovered four bottle bombs from the spot. The blast took place when four students of Gatebazar Railway school were roaming around in the area & picked up a bottle appearing to have some jelly like substance inside it.
When one of them tried to open it to have the jelly, the bottle exploded & three of them ….

The first show of movie “Singh is Kinng” was disrupted on Friday at NM cinema hall in Amritsar after protest by Sikhs. The Sikhs were protesting against the Sikh community being projected “in a negative way” in the film starring Akshay Kumar, who is portraying a turbaned Sikh youth & Katrina Kaif.
Police personnel were rushed to the cinema hall to control the situation.

The Supreme Court has on Wednesday stayed the order of a HC tribunal lifting ban on Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). A petition challenging the tribunal’s verdict was mentioned before the bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, which agreed with the Centre seeking a grant of interim stay.
The Court issued a notice to the SIMI & posted the matter for hearing after three weeks. The special tribunal had on Tuesday lifted the ban on SIMI. ….

Manoj Kumar has on Tuesday filed a case against actor Shahrukh Khan, Farah Khan & Sony Entertainment Television seeking to delete a scene from the movie “Om Shanti Om”, a private news agency reported.
Shahrukh Khan & Farah Khan had earlier assured Kumar that the scene, which makes fun of him, would be deleted from the movie. However, this did not happen & the movie was screened in all theatres without the deletion of the scene.
Kumar has now approached the Sessions ….

A special tribunal has on Tuesday lifted the ban on Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). The tribunal, headed by Justice Geeta Mittal, a sitting Delhi High Court judge, observed that there is no evidence against SIMI showing them terrorists.
The judge was hearing the petition by SIMI, challenging the two-year ban imposed on it by the central government Feb 7, 2008.

At least 130 pilgrims have been killed & around 200 others injured on Sunday in a stampede at Naina Devi temple in Bilaspur district in Himachal Pradesh.
Rumours of a landslide & rolling down of stones from a nearby hilltop led to a commotion which apparently caused the stampede as a large number of pilgrims tried to push their way causing collapse of a railing along the four-km trek to the ….

A bomb blast rocked north Kolkata on Sunday in which four killed & five injured. Bomb blast occurred in Chitpur area of Kolkata. The cause of the blast is yet to known.
On June 30th, Kolkata had been placed on high alert after an e-mail from the terrorist group India Mujahideen to a TV channel and other media houses warned of blasts at the Calcutta High Court & at a top private hospital.

Uma Bharti, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, was detained on Saturday in Jammu. Uma Bharti arrived at Jammu airport on Saturday morning from New Delhi & was to address a press conference in Jammu but police took her into custody. She was later taken to Udhampur district.
Another fire-brand Hindu leader Sadhivi Ritambhara was not allowed to enter Jammu. She was sent back to the national Capital from Jammu airport. However, senior BJP leader who is also in-charge of party’s ….

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck Pune & some other parts of Maharashtra in the wee hours on Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of any damage or casualty.
The epicentre of this earthquake was at Koyna area of Satara district.

Surat Police has on Tuesday discovered 18 exploded bombs in Surat. The bombs were found in Varachha Road area. The bombs have been defused.
Security has been tighten after the incident. Schools were closed early. Police are on high alert after an Islamist group known as the Indian Muhahedeen said it carried out the weekend bombings & warned of more attacks.
R M S Brar, Police Commissioner of Surat, said, “We have found explosives from 18 places in Surat which have ….

Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, winner of 2007 Reality Show “Voice of India”, passed away after drowning in the swimming pool of Maldives hotel. Ishmeet Sodhi arrived Maldives this morning to perform in the Star Voice of Maldives on August 1.
Ishmeet Singh Sodhi belonged to Ludhiana of Punjab. Ishmeet was 19 years old.

After serial blasts in Banglore, Ahmedbad rocked by Seventeen serial blasts on Saturday in which 29 people have been killed & 88 others injured. All the injureds have been taken to Maninagar hospital. The areas targeted are Raipur, Maninagar, Isanpur, Naroda, Bapu Nagar & Diamond Market.
The first blast took place in Chakla area of Raipur. The second blast was reported in Maninagar, which happens to be Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s ….

At least two people, including one woman, have been killed & more than 20 people injured in a series of nine blasts in Bangalore. The first one blast took place in the Madiwala locality bus stand & the second in Adugodi area in Kormangla & the third on Hosur Road. The series of blasts took place between 1:45 & 2:30 pm.
All the injured were taken to nearby hospitals immediately. ….

At least five people have been killed & more than 15 injured after a grenade blast at the busy Batamaloo bus stand in Srinagar on Thursday. Unidentified persons hurled a grenade on a Jammu-bound bus at the bus stand located in the periphery of Lal Chowk in afternoon.
The injured were immediately admitted to the nearby hospital. The grenade was hurled when the group of labourers from other states were boarding a bus to Jammu on way to their native places.

UPA has on Tuesday won the Trust vote polling 253 in favour vis-a-vis 232 against in a House of 487 with two abstention in the Lok Sabha. But this final tally may change later after counting of voting slips.
The voting was both automated as well as manual. The Prime Minister & Sonia Gandhi were immediately surrounded by a galaxy of members after UPA won Trust Vote in Lok Sabha.
Earlier, the Opposition members rushed to the well of the ….