Rahul Gandhi the general secretary of Congress will visit Etawah on Saturday to meet the Dalit family, whose five members were killed over a land dispute. Five members of a Dalit family were shot dead allegedly by members of the same community over a land dispute at Aminabad village in the district on Friday.
An official of Congress said that Rahul Gandhi will be reaching the village tomorrow morning.
The Amethi MP`s visit is seen as an attempt to strengthen base of ….

Plane carrying Rajnath Singh the President of BJP landed amidst emergency conditions at Bhopal airport after developing a technical snag. an official said that the plane carrying Rajnath Singh was on its way to Sagar when the pilot noticed that its wheels were not opening, following which he decided to return to Raja Bhoj Airport in Bhopal.
The wheels of the plane did open before landing at Bhopal airport. There was no problem in the wheels but only its indicator was ….

Woman suicide bomber who was planning to attack on the Dera sacha sauda chief Baba Ram Rahim was arrested on Thursday by police. Parveen is only 21 years old & she is studying in B.A part1. She was arrested from patiala.
Ram Rahim was attacked by some unidentified youths on February 2, 2008. A blast on 2 February was hit cavalcade of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Baba Ram Rahim Gurmeet Singh in Haryana but Dera ….

Five drunk members of a marriage party burnt a 10 years old boy to death in Alipur village on the outskirts of the capital on Thursday night. The burnt body of Sanjeev was found one km inside an agricultural village in Alipur on yesterday.
Though police said it was not yet clear as to what led to the murder, locals claim the boy, who was riding a bicycle, was hit by the vehicle of a marriage party travelling to Alipur village ….

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit to the varanasi on Friday. Manmohan Singh will cover a long distance between BHU guest house to Dashaswamedh by car on Friday evening.
Hectic preparations were going on in all the areas & routes from where the motorcade would pass. After landing in BHU, he would go the Kashi Vishwanath temple & Dashaswamedh to see “ganga-aarti”. An official said that the all encroachments along the route were removed.
The administration has also made arrangements to provide ….

Sonia Gandhi the chairperson of UPA will arrive in Hyderabad on Friday for one day visit to Andhra Pradesh. She will inaugurate Shamshabad’s airport the country’s most modern international airport near Hyderabad.
Sonia Gandhi will be recieve at Rajahmundry in East Godavari district & then she will visit Tadipudi Pushkara irrigation project. She will then address a public meeting at Jaggampet in the district. The Congress President will proceed to Warangal district for a visit to the prestigious Devadula project billed ….

Sixteen Maoists in Muzaffarpur surrendered & handed over a huge cache of arms to the police on Thursday. Five were wanted in several criminal cases from those sixteen Maoists who were surrendered in Muzaffarpur District.
An official of police said that the naxalites handed over 50 kg explosives, six detonators, two landmines, seven pistols, four rifles, two guns & several rounds of ammunition. The official said, “We will be giving the rehabilitation package to each of them in accordance with the ….

Four passengers on Thursday were allegedly thrown from a running train near Jalgaon. The incident took place near Pachora station in Jalgaon when as many as four passengers were thrown from the Goa Express train.
Two of them died & 1 critically injured in this incident. The whereabouts of one other are still unknown.

Three bomb blasts occured in Udalguri district of Assam on Wednesday night, in which 1 killed & 19 injured. First bomb was triggered by the ultras near the railway station in Udalguritown around 8.30 pm IST but none was injured. Second bomb exploded in the same town near the Municipal office around 9 pm in which nine injured.
The insurgent outfit triggered a third bomb in Mazbat of the district. At least ten persons including some traders were injured in the ….

Punjab government on Wednesday passed the Compulsory Registration of Marriages Bill act. The Bill which was presented by justice minister Upinderjit Kaur, is also intended for compliance with directions of Supreme Court which were delivered in the Seema versus Ashwani Kumar case, 2005, seeking adoption of Compulsory Registration of Marriages Act in all states.
Objects & reasons cited in the Bill state that the legislation is meant to mitigate hardships faced by women in Punjab because of matrimonial disputes, bigamy or ….

A militant was shot dead on Monday by security forces during a gunbattle with the security forces in Baramulla district.
An official said that the gunbattle ensued during a search operation carried out jointly by police and army at Rampur-Sopore village, 60 kms from here.

A private bus on Monday rammed into a tree & then overturned in which ten people killed & fourty injured. 10 people, including five women, were killed when the Gurdaspur-Batala bus turned turtle near Bidhipur village railway crossing.
A three years old child escaped unhurt while 15 of the injured, five of them serious, were admitted to a local hospital. Police is investigating the matter.

ULFA militants exploded two bombs in Tinsukia & Dibrugarh districts in which two killed & five injured. A rickshaw-puller was killed when the powerful bomb exploded near a hotel at Daily Bazaar area in Doomdooma town of Tinsukia district.
The injured have been shifted to the hospital. Police is investigating the matter.

Six Hizbul Mujahideen militants were arrested on Monday by security forces from Pattan area of Baramulla district. An official said that the militants were arrested from different parts of Pattan area on Monday night. They have been identified as Gulzar Ahmed Ganai, Gulzar Ahmed Lone, Mohd Altaf, Altaf Rashid, Gulam Muhi-deen Wani & Bilal Ahmed Bhat.
Huge quantity of arms & ammunitions were recovered from the arrested militants. The recoveries include one AK rifle, six magazines, 2010 AK rounds, one UBGL, ….

Amarjeet Singh Saini the district manager of Punsup died after committed suicide by hanging from a ceiling fan at his rented house in Prem Nagar in KApurthala. He was 48 years old. Saini has left a suicide note.
Amarjeet Singh Saini said in his suicide note that he was committing suicide due to pressure of official work but he didnot bold anybody responsible for his suicide. In his suicide note addressed to his wife, Saini also reportedly asked to her ….

Pushpraj Yadav a gangster who was 31 years old was shot dead in an encounter by Special Task Force in Madhya Pradesh. Pushpraj had shot down a head constable, Vinay Yadav, in Maninagar in November 8, 2007. He had been absconding since then.
Vinay along with a constable had approached Pushpraj & two others who were loitering suspiciously near a bank in Maninagar. When Vinay tried to give Pushpraj a body search, the latter suddenly fished out a pistol and ….

Mushtaq Ahmad Malla who is a top Hizbul Mujahideen militant, was arrested on Sunday from a village in frontier district. An official said that the district commander of the outfit Mushtaq Ahmad Malla alias Furqan was arrested in the early hours from Maratgam village.
An Ak 47 rifle, its three magazines, 81 live rounds, three hand grenades, a pouch, three detonators & some incriminatory material were recovered from his possession. The arrested militant was wanted in connection with a number of ….

The Congress Punjab unit has expelled four of its party members for alleged anti-party activities. Those stripped of the primary membership of the party for six years, included Mahesh Inder Singh Nihalsinghwala, Amarjit Singh Manuke, Sukhdev Singh Khema & Randhir Singh.
While ordering their expulsion, Punjab Congress chief Rajinder Kaur Battal warned that indiscipline in the party will not be tolerated at any cost.

Thousands of devotees from Patiala paid obeisanceto to the Jagriti Yatra by showering flower petals on the vehicle carrying the weapons of Guru Gobind Sungh & the hand written “Bir” (Guru Granth Sahib). The yatra enteres Patiala on Friday & was accorded a warm welcome by the district administration. The yatra was followed by a Nagar Kirtan.
Traffic came to a standstill on the busy Rajpura-Patiala road forcing the authorities to divert traffic to ….

Today is the half-day in Punjab schools & offices. The Punjab Government has declared half day in all the schools, primary as well as secondary schools and offices of Punjab on the occasion of Shivratri.
The Punjab Government has made this announcement on Tuesday evening.