38 years old Rahul Gandhi, who is on a three-day visit to the Punjab, has on Tuesday said, “I will get married soon”. He was replying to a question at a roadshow in Bathinda on Tuesday on whether he has any plans to tie the knot. Gandhi, without giving any details, just said “I will get married soon”.
Rahul Gandhi has also visited a jail in a Bathinda town where his great-grandfather ….

India’s public sector bank employees will be on a two day strike from tomorrow after talks between their union & the chief labour commissioner failed.
C.H. Venkatachalam, convener of the United Forum of Bank Union said, “We have demanded revision of wages & deferment of privatization of banks & disinvestments in public sector banks”.
Employees of 26 public sector banks will participate in the two day strike from Wednesday.

A Mumbai special court has on Tuesday discharged gangster Brijesh Singh from the 1992 J J Hospital shootout case. Brijesh Singh, who was brought to Mumbai from Uttar Pradesh, had shot at one of the members of Arun Gawli gang.
The attack was in retaliation to the murder of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s brother-in-law Ismail Parker. Brijesh Singh had also shot at two police constables who were guarding the room in which Parker was ….

Unidentified armed men assaulted two security guards in the paint shop of the Tata Motors “Nano” plant at Singur. Five armed men sneaked into the project area at 9:45 pm on Monday night &beat up security guards with iron rods.
Alarmed by screams of the injured other security men rushed to the site but could not nab the attackers. The injured were first taken to Singur Gramin Hospital & then shifted to Walsh Hospital at Srirampore. Police is investigating the matter.

The Chief Executive Officer of a Noida Company was beaten to death on Monday by some dismissed employees inside office premises following the failure of a meeting, that was called to resolve a dispute between them & the management. LK Chaudhary, the CEO of Gradiano in Udyog Vihar of Greater Noida, was killed when the agitating workers turned violent & beat him up.
During the clash, a security guard ….

At least 36 Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested in New Delhi for residing here without valid documents. The illegal immigrants were taken into custody from Kalyanpuri in east Delhi during checking in the area yesterday.
Among the arrested, ten are women & 11 are children. Police has intensified its drive to flush out illegal immigrants in the wake of serial blasts in the national capital on September 13 which claimed 24 lives.

State government asked Centre to share half the burden of pay revision of their employees, in case they go for the next salary hike. VAT panel said in its presentation to the 13th Finance Commission, “The states would never forget the effect of the Centre’s decision on recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission regarding pay revision on states’ finances through consequences of pay revision at the states levels. This had resulted in a financial crisis for the states”.
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Police has on Sunday arrested three suspected militants allegedly involved in the Delhi serial blasts. The three identified as Zia, Shakeel & Shakir-ur-Rahman were arrested from a south Delhi locality. Zia & Shakeel were involved in the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts that claimed more than 55 lives.
Earlier, two HuJI militants wanted in connection with the serial blasts in Delhi & Ahmedabad were killed in a fierce encounter on September 19.

Around 30 people have been killed following landslides triggered by incessant rains in various parts of Himachal Pradesh in the last three days. Five people, including two persons, were buried alive in Shimla town in a massive landslide last evening near the Mall Road in Shimla.
Hundred of trees have fallen causing land slides in several places. Nine people lost their lives in Theog where three persons died when the vehicle in which they were travelling was buried in the debris, ….

A blast has been reported in area of heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital on Saturday in which 40 killed & 150 others injured. Ambulances rushed to the scene, where a fire also burned.
The blast was resounded through Islamabad. A police officer said, “The explosion happened as a car reached the barricade outside the hotel”. It appeared to have been a suicide attack, he added. He further said that around 20 cars parked on the street outside had ….

Flash floods have killed nine people in Orissa as officials on Friday warned that the situation may worsen when water released from the state’s largest reservoir reaches the coastal districts. Although there was no fresh rainfall on Friday, officials said things were going to be worse when the water released from Hirakud reservoir on Thursday reaches the interior parts of the coastal districts by Friday evening.
With other rivers such as the Subarnarekha, Baitarani & Brahmani in spate, one person was ….

Bringing down temperature, heavy rains lashed the North India for the third day on Friday affecting vehicular movement & inundating several low-lying areas. Heavy Rains in Patiala, Ludhiana, Punjab, Haryana have inundated low-lying areas & destroyed crops, especially of bajra & paddy which was ready for harvesting. Traffic jams were also reported in some places of Patiala.
Major rivers like Sutlej, Beas & Ghaggar, their tributaries & canals are ….

Two militants have been killed & one arrested in an encounter in the Jamia Nagar locality in South Delhi by the Special Cell of Delhi Police. However, two terrorists managed to escape. Two policemen of the Special cell were also injured in the encounter.
According to police tip-off, there were five terrorists holed up in an apartment near Kaliullah mosque. While two terrorists have been killed, two have managed to flee & one terrorist has been arrested.
Police said that the terrorists ….

Raj Thackeray, MNS Chief has on Thursday accepted the apology of Amitabh Bachchan & called off their campaign against the Bahchcan family. Thackeray said, “We are withdrawing our agitation”.
He further said, “We accept Bachchan’s apology because he went public. Actually, Jaya Bachchan should have apologised publicly, but we are accepting Amitabh’s apology as he is head of the Bachchan family”.
Amitabh had apologized at a press conference & on his blog on Wednesday in the hope that it would pacify ….

An earthquake of 5.7 magnitude struck Northern India, New Delhi, Pakistan & Afghanistan on Saturday morning. The epicentre of this equake was in the Hindukush mountain range in Afghanistan. There were no immediate reports of any Casualty or damage.
The quake struck at a depth of 174 kms. In India, the tremors were felt at around 11.20 am. Residents of Srinagar, Jammu, Bhadrwah, Poonch, New Delhi & Chandigarh feel the earthquake.
In Pakistan the quake was felt in Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Abbotabad, ….

Tata Motors has on Tuesday suspended the work at Singur plant. Tata motors said that the company is evaluating alternate locations for manufacturing Nano car. The shutdown at the Tata Motors “Nano” car project site continued for the fifth day on Tuesday as the management did not consider the atmosphere conducive for normal work with the Trinamool Congress dharna entering its tenth consecutive day.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee had on Monday scaled down her defiance & given a go-ahead to ….

A major fire broke out at Saravana Stores Ranganathan Street, T Nagar in the wee hours of the day in the fourth floor of the building.
However, no loss of life was reported. More than 20 fire tenders were pressed into service to put out the flames. The cause of the fire is alleged to have been the short circuit & damages are yet to be assessed.

The Maharashtra government has on Sunday dismissed Mumbai’s top police encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma from service. Sharma was served the dismissal order at his residence at 1 am on Sunday.
He has been accused of having links with the underworld, corruption & amassing huge properties in his name among other things. In his 25-year career with the Mumbai Police, Sharma has shot dead 107 criminals.

K. K. Birla, an Industrialist, passed away on Saturday at his Birla Park residence in Kolkata following a brief illness. He was 90 years old. K. K. Birla was ailing for the last two weeks & the end came at 7.30 am.
Birla is survived by three daughters - Nandini Nupani, Saroj Potddar & Shobhana Bhartia. His wife Manorama Devi Birla had died about a month ago.

The Indian government has released the notification of the Sixth Pay Commission’s recommendation on Friday, August 29, 2008. The notification will be available from tomorrow at pib.nic.in
The government has improved the final draft that was prepared by the union cabinet on 14th August. The complaints of varied groups of employees were taken into consideration, especially those of army officials & the irregularities were eliminated. The Union Cabinet has given its approval for implementation of the recommendations of the Sixth ….