Security in Delhi was beefed up on Monday after police received intelligence inputs about militant outfits planning terror strike in the national capital Delhi, economical capital Mumabi & in Lucknow also. Karnal Singh the Joint Commissioner of Police said, “We received an input that some militant outfits are planning to create terror in the national capital by targeting some prominent locations & based on that we have taken necessary security precautions”.
Following the intelligence warning, Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal ….

The ULFA has called a twelve hour “Assam Bandh” on Tuesday, 19 February to protest against the arrest of Lachit Bordoloi the People’s Consultive Group member. Arabindo Rajkhova the chairman of Ulfa said that the bandh was called to protest against the arrest of Borodoloi & several other “human rights” activists.
The outfit said the bandh call had also been given to protest against the “fake encounters by the security forces in which several innocent civilians have been killed”.
Bordoloi was arrested ….

Navin Chandra Ramgoolam

Navin Chandra Ramgoolam the Prime Minister of Mauritius arrived on a three-day visit to Bihar this afternoon. The district administration has beefed up security in the wake of his visit to Siwan & Harigaon the ancestral home of his father & the first PM of Mauritius Sir Seewoosagar Ramgoolam.
The PM would be received by Nitish Kumar Chief Minister of Bihar & several of his cabinet members.
During his visit Navin Chandra Ramgoolam will ….

Romesh Sharma

The Patiala House court awarded life term to Romesh Sharma, alleged frontman of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, & five others for murdering his fashion designer girlfriend Kunjum Budhiraja nine years ago.
Judge S P Garg also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on Sharma & Rs 5,000 each on his nephew Surinder Mishra & Tejinder Virdi alias Dolly. Other accused Hemchand, Santram & Ramesh were fined Rs 1,000 each.
The court had on February 15 ….

Ram Naik the former Petroleum Minister & senior BJP leader is protesting against the hike in petrol & diesel prices. Poonam Mahajan, the daughter Pramod Mahajan, also joined the protest along with Ram Naik.
Ram Naik said, “During the last four years, petrol prices have increased by 52 per cent & diesel by 60 per cent. If the hike is not withdrawn immediately, the BJP will launch an agitation all over India”.
The former MP said during the NDA Government at ….

Sixteen suspected ISI agents, were arrested from Gorakhapur Express at Secunderabad railway station in Hyderabad on Sunday evening. They were travelling in Gorakhapur-Bangalore express (train no.2591), South Central Railway (SCR).
On a tip-off by a railway ticket examiner on suspicion of the railway passengers, the railway police arrested 16 persons & handed over to task force police who whisked them away for questioning.
City police commissioner B. Prasad Rao said “we are verifying their antecedents” & it will take two or three ….

Harish Chander Singh the father of general secretary Samajwadi Party Amar Singh, passed away in Delhi on Monday after a prolonged illness. He was 82 years old. Amar Singh said that his father was suffering from cardiac ailment & had been under treatment at a Fortis Hospital in Noida for ….

Taj Mahotsav

The Taj Mahotsav will begin on Monday at Shilpgram near the Taj Mahal. This ten-day long Mahotsav is organised to take people back to the Mughal era with a culmination of art, crts, cuisine, music, dance, which highlights the rich culture & tradition of the historic city.
Folk music, dance, classical dance, camel race, local games & food festival will be part of the mahotsav which will be performed by folk artists accumulating there from ….

Orissa police associations has Blamed the state government for the recent Naxal attacks & also demanded adequate strengthening of police stations & armouries in the state. They have also asked the state government to declare the entire state as Naxal-prone.
Tarun Mishra Home secretary of Orissa said that 20 Maoists & three policemen have died in the exchange of fire between the two sides.
The firing between Maoist guerillas, police & paramilitary forces in Orissa has been on since Saturday night near ….

A view of Appu Ghar.

Appu Ghar a long been a source of delight for every child to be closed down on Sunday evening. Gyan Vijeshwar chairman of Apuu Ghar said, “We are closing down. But we will be visible again in Jaipur. I am hoping that some wonderful decision crops up so that the government is compelled to help us get an alternative land here”.
Appu Ghar the country’s first Disneyland to be closed down ….

Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Ganguly has disclosed that he would take retirement from the limited overs version in next 7-8 months. Ganguly told Samay, “Selectors asked me whether I wanted to continue one-day cricket. I said, yes definitely, at least for the next 7-8 months”.
Gangult told in an interview with private news channel, “There is not much of ODI cricket this year. This is Australia series then India goes to Sri Lanka for Test & ODI, ….

Naxal attack

According to Samay news the Armed Naxalites attacked a police training school on Friday night & killed at least 14 police personnel, including two women, & a civilian. The ultras also took away a cache of arms & ammunition in a bus they had hijacked in the district, about 100 km from Bhubaneswar.
According to the police, a group around 50 naxalites, with bombs and firearms raided Police Training School, district police station & ….

Mamata Banerjee

The Mamata Banerjee chief Trinamool Congress has said that she would not change her Calcutta South Lok Sabha seat even after delimitation of constituencies. Mamata Banerjee said, “I will not change my constituency. I will continue to contest from Kolkata South seat. The people are with us”.
Delimitation of constituencies has been done to satisfy the CPI-M. It was done on per direction by Alimuddin Street but they cannot stop TC. Banerjee pointed out ….

The CBI on Thursday submitted the report on the March 14, 2007 police firing at Nandigram which left 14 people dead to the registrar council of the Calcutta High Court.
The report will then go to a division bench, comprising Chief Justice S.S. Nijjar & Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh, who will fix the next date of hearing after going through the report.
The CBI submitted the report, as scheduled to the registrar council Shyamal Kanti Chakrabarty, as per the direction of the ….

Pratibha patil

According to Samay news Pratibha Patil the President of India will today visit to Bihar. It will be two-day visit. Pratibha Patil will attend the First Inter University Cultural Festival by the Magadh University at Bodh Gaya.
She will also launch the “Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah Yojna”. The President will also visit places of historical importance at Nalanda, Bodh Gaya, Vaishali & the Gurudwara Patna Sahib in Patna.

Bal Thackeray

According to Samay news the Bal Thackeray Chief of Shiv Sena said that the Raj Thackeray was responsible for the killing of Ambadas Dharrao, an employee of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. in Nasik, who was hit by a stone when he was returning from work.
Bal Thackeray also said that Dharrao was a Marathi. MNS workers are now charged with the murder of a Maharashtrian. The Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has also questioned that ….

The prices of Petrol & diesel would be costlier by Rs 2 & Re 1 per litre respectively from today midnight but there is no change in the price of LPG. The decision of the Cabinet Committee, whose meeting was chaired by the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, will benefit oil companies to the tune of Rs 840 crore.
The government also decided to increase issuance of oil bonds, a tool to partly compensate the companies. Presently, 42.7 per cent of ….

Prakash the brohter of Pramod Mahajan late BJP leader, who is also a senior functionary in the Raj Thackeray’s MNS, was arrested in Aurangabad following a complaint of inciting people for violence.
A FIR was registered against Prakash Mahajan at the Kranti Chowk police station of the town & he was arrested today along with six other MNS workers. Prakash Mahajan was produced before a local magistrate in Aurangabad, about 300 km from Mumbai & has applied for bail.

Taslima Nasreen

Taslima Nasreen a Bangladeshi writer’s visa to stay in India, which expires in four days, would be extended. The 45 years old author Taslima Nasreen is likely to get the extension of stay beyond February 17 when her six-month visa expires. A decision is expected to be announced soon.
The visa of Taslima Nasreen, who has been living in India for the last four years because of threat to her life back home, was ….

Rajendra Nath

A bollywood comedian superstar Rajendra Nath has dead on Wednesday after prolonged illness. Rajendra Nath was 75 years old. Rajendra was suffering from breathing problems from some days. He will be cremated on Thursday. Rajendra Nath began his career in Bolywood in 1938 with Hindi film ‘Vachan’. Vilasrao Deshmukh Chief Minister of Maharashtra condoled the actor’s death & said “Rajendra Nath regaled film lovers across generations with his typical sense of comic timing”.