Police on Thursday said that at least nine people were killed & seven injured in a stampede late Wednesday at a religious fair in Ashok Nagar in Madhya Pradesh.
The incident occurred at Janaki temple on the occasion of rang-panchami in the Sita Temple grounds situated in Kareela in Ashok Nagar district in western Madhya Pradesh.
The injured have been admitted to the district hospital.

A security guard killed an army soldier on Wednesday. An official said that the Army jawan was shot dead by security guard, who mistook him to be an intruder at an Army camp in Drass area of Kargil district.
Naik Ramesh Kumar of 6th Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry, who had wrapped himself in a blanket to protect himself from the morning chill, failed to respond to the warning of the security guard deployed at the camp to stop on Tuesday.
The ….

The security forces on Tuesday killed a Hizbul Mujahideen militant in an encounter in Jammu & Kashmir’s Reasi district.
On a specific information, troops of 59 Rastriya Rifles launched a cordon & search operation in an area in Gulabgarh belt of Reasi district around 07:30 am on Tuesday.
During the encounter, which was still on, one Hizbul militant was killed & an AK rifle & large amount of ammunition were recovered.

Dima Halam Daogah militants exploded a bomb at a railway station in South Assam’s North Cachar Hills district on Monday night in which four, three railway employees & a persons, killed & several injured.
An official of Police on Tuesday said that the insurgents of the DHD, also known as the dreaded “Black Widow”, exploded a bomb in the Harangajao railway station killed three railway employees which were on duty & a person.
The station was cordoned off & no trains were ….

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered to constitute a five-member special investigation team to re-investigate the post-Godhra communal riots. The SC said it would submit its report within three months.
The five-member team would comprise three senior IPS officers from Gujarat, Gita Johri, Sivananad Jha & Ashish Bhatia, besides retired CBI director R K Raghavan & former DGP C B Satpathy.
A three-member bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat, P Sathasivam and Aftab Alam said it would pass necessary orders on Wednesday for ….

A grenade exploded in Akhnoor border belt in Jammu & Kashmir on Tuesday in which a Border Security Force jawan was injured.
The grenade was exploded accidently. The grenade exploded during a firing practice in Khleeth firing range in Akhnoor border belt causing injuries to Havaldar Inder Vishwasiya of the BSF.
An official of BSF said that the jawan is being treated at the GMC hospital & his condition was stated to be critical.

Government of Goa on Tuesday suspended a forensic expert Dr Silvano Sapeco who had conducted the first autopsy on Scarlett Keeling & later had given the final opinion suggesting she was murdered.
The government suspended him on the charge of making “irresponsible” media statements which hampered the investigation into Scarlett Keeling’s death case. The forensic expert attached to state owned Goa Medical College & Hospital had in his final opinion talked about the possibility that the girl’s head must have ….

The Panjab University Teachers Association’s members calls for strike on March 26. The PUTA members would be proceeding on mass casual leave on Wednesday for the fulfillment of their demand of grant of Central University status to the varsity. Joining the teachers, the Students’ Council too would be going on a strike.
The teachers & students have been demanding for Central University status for PU for the past few weeks. While PUTA has been pursuing the demand for more than a ….

Sama Mehta an eight years old girl has been died on saturday & four others of her family were taken ill after consuming chicken at Rampurhat block in Birbhum district,which was the worst affected in the first wave of bird-flu attack in January.
However, officilas of the district health department & animal resource development denied that the girl’s death had anything to do with bird-flu, claiming that she died of food poisoning.
An official said that they were suffering from dysentery & ….

The sister of Sarbjit Singh, an Indian prisoner in pakistan, Dalbir Kaur, said She will visit Pakistan.
She is carrying Sarabjit’s identity proofs & she would also show the CD of Pakistani national Salim Shaukat, who in a recent TV interview reportedly admitted that he was forced to testify against her brother.
Dalbir Kaur said she had appealed the family members of those lodged in Pakistani jails to hand over their details at Amritsar so she ….

Bombay High Court on Monday declared construction on 120 acres of land in Mumbai illegal. It could affect 1.5 lakh families. The High court said the construction, which had been carried out in Mulund, Borivli & Bhandup areas, was illegal as it had been done on forest land.
The land in question was earlier notified as private forest land, but the state government later renotified it as government forest land.
The Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the government’s move. The decision ….

A journalist has been shot dead by his sister-in-law’s brother at Panki area in the district in Kanpur. Vinay, who was a reporter with a Delhi-based news organisation, had come to Allahabad to meet his brother & sister-in-law on Holi.
The trio, then went to Priya’s brother’s place, Ajay, at Panki where Vinay & Ajay got into an argument during which, in a fit of rage, Ajay allegedly shot Vinay. Ajay then admitted Vinay to K P M Hospital & ran ….

Some unidentified persons on Sunday killed a pregnant woman & her husband. They were shot dead at Nirankari Bhavan near Govindnagar in Kanpur.
An official of Police said that Hemant Tripathi 29 years old a lawyer & his wife Nishtha 22 years old were returning to their home on a scooter on Sunday night, when four persons on two motorbikes stopped Hemant & allegedly shot him dead near Nirankari Bhavan T-point. Hemant Tripathi died on the spot.
The official said that ….

Alamgir Alam the speaker of Jharkhand assembly & some other politicians have received threatening SMSes that they would be killed by April 2. Former minister & Janata Dal-United (JD-U) legislator Ramesh Singh Munda received an threatening SMS on Saturday that he would be killed by April 2.
Alam, former chief minister Arjun Munda & another legislator also received similar SMSes on Sunday. Tamesh Singh Munda had lodged a compliant at Bundu police station in Ranchi.
A senior official of Police said, “We ….

Manmohan Singh the Prime Minister of India will inaugurate a 1600 mega watt power plant in Bawana on Monday.
Once, operational the plant is expected to generate more power, fulfilling Delhi’s needs during the summer.
This is indeed good news for Delhites, who seem to be bracing for long power cuts.

Border Security force of Pargwal Border of India on Sunday arrested a Pakistani intruder along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu district.
The Pakistani national entered Indian territory via Pargwal border out post in Akhnoor border belt in Jammu district & was arrested by BSF troops.
He was identified as Mohmmad Bashir.

In a fierce gunbattle between army & militants four security personnel & a Lashker-e-Toiba’s commander killed & three injured near Srinagar on Sunday.
The officials said that the gunbattle broke out when militants ambushed a joint search party of Special Operations group (SOG) of local police & CRPF at Telbal on Harwan-Hazratbal road on the outskirts of the city on Sunday morning.
A militant, who was later identified as Faisal, a self-styled divisional commander of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit, was killed & ….

A curfew has been imposed in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan after clashes of two groups. Members of one group were enraged when they saw some slogans against them on a wall & started throwing stones at members of another group. In the ensuing clashes, some shops were also burnt but there were no reports of injuries.
Curfew was imposed in most of the town about 350 km from the Jaipur the state ….

Police said that they had found cocaine, morphine & alcohol in the body of Scarlett keeling.
Scarlett Keeling ’s partially clothed body was found on a beach in Goa. An official of Goa police said that a post-mortem examination showed that she tested positive for drugs.
The official said, “Now the narcotic drugs & alcohol form a part of the chain of events that included rape & drowning of a girl who could not defend herself”.
The ….

Dr. Amit Kumar the kingpin of the kidney racket on Thursday denied the charges framed by the CBI against him. Dr. Amit Kumar said, “I have not removed the kidney of any person on gun point. The kidneys were transplanted with the mutual consent of the donors & the beneficiaries”.
He alleged that the CBI had falsely implicated him in the case & now it was freezing his bank account in Canada without any justification.
He was ….