The Gurmat Siddhant Parcharak Sant Samaj & the Damdami Taksal has called for a bandh in Punjab & Haryana on July 23 demanding the arrest of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. Damdami Taksal members are on dharna from July 9 against the failure of the Central government to arrest the Dera chief.
Protesters are also demanding the sealing of Naam Charcha centres of Ram Rahim , besides initiating an inquiry against him. They stated that the Dera chief ….

A sikh has been killed in a clash between a group of Dera Sacha Sauda supporters & Sikhs in Dabwali town in Haryana’s Sirsa district. The clash broke out after an altercation between two sides during morning prayers naamcharcha of Dera supporters in Dabwali.
Deputy Commissioner V Umashankar said that the district administration had not been told about the Dera programme in advance. He said, “Generally, we are informed ….

The supporters of spiritual Guru Asaram Bapu have on Friday attacked mediapersons in Ahmedabad on Friday, damaging cameras of television crews. The attack happened at a press conference called by Asaram Bapu’s ashram.
Asaram Bapu ashram has been facing protests after the bodies of two boys were found near the ashram on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on July 6. Several organizations have called for shutdown in Ahmedabad on Friday to protest what they see ….

Situation worsened in many parts of Ahmedabad on Friday as bandh called to protest against the death of two boys, of Asaram Bapu’s ashram, under mysterious circumstances turned violent with protesters attacking busses in many parts of the city.
Maninagar, the constituency of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, has also been affected as people tried to block the roads in the area. Nirnaynagar has been most affected as clashes broke down between the police & people. Police used lathicharge to disperse ….

At least 14 people have been killed & 12 others injured after a passenger bus was hit by landslides at Sukhidhang area of Chamawat district in Uttarakhand on Friday. The bus carrying 34 passengers was bound for New Delhi from Thal in the hilly Pithoragarh district when it was trapped in heavy landslide following rain.
As the bus was nearing Champawat town, a landslide hit the bus & damaged its front. Ten bodies have been recovered so far while the injured ….

High drama was witnessed in Supreme Court during the hearing of Provident Fund scam in Uttar Pradesh when Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan appeared to drop hints that he may rescue from the case after a senior counsel challenged a decision of his.
Balakrishnan told Shanti Bhushan that he had taken some decision on the administrative side & if he has to withdraw then an amended prayer has to be filed. Names of 26 members of judiciary, including an apex court judge, ….

The Shiromani Akali Dal will vote against the UPA government when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeks a vote of confidence in Parliament on July 22. Parkash Singh Badal said that the party cann’t go along with any ruling dispensation in which the Congress is a constituent or has provided support. While ruling out the possibility of Akali MPs abstaining from voting, he said there was no need to issue a whip as the party stood united on the issue.
He denied ….

Captain Amarinder Singh, former Chief Minister of Punjab, has urged Punjab current CM Parkash Singh Badal to rise above political considerations & depart from the stand taken by the NDA over the Indo-US nuclear deal in the country’s interest.
A private news agency reported that in a letter faxed to Badal from Dubai the former Punjab Chief Minister said though he was aware it was difficult for Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to make a choice as it was a part of ….

At least 20 people have been killed when a jeep carrying a marriage party fell into a water-filled ditch in Patna in the wee hours on Tuesday. Anwar Hussain, SP of Patna said, “The dead include 10 women & nine children”.
He said that the tragedy occurred when the victims, all belonging to the bride’s side, were returning to their home in Janipur locality in the state capital after solemnising the marriage at a temple in Alamganj in the old city ….

The Christian Groups have on Sunday attacked the offices of Telugu Daily, owned by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s family, to protest the publication of a blasphemous picture of Jesus Christ. The daily’s Sunday edition carried a picture showing Jesus with a beer mug in one hand & a cigarette in the other. The chief minister’s family, which practices Christianity, has tendered an apology. The chief minister’s son & newspaper owner YS Jaganmohan Reddy & the chief ….

As a major relief for residents of Punjab, Punjab State Electricity Board has reduced the duration of power cuts to 2 to 4 hours per day following the reduction in demand for power due to heavy rains lashing the region.
Y.S. Ratra, PSEB chairman said, “Due to rains in Punjab & adjoining states today the demand for power reduced substantially & board was able to reduce the power cuts to around 2 -4 hours”. He said that there has been abrupt ….

The life of people in Punjab becomes miserable as Long power cuts are continue in the state. The shortage of 231 lakh units per day has forced the PSEB to resort to power cuts in the state from 6 to 8 hours every day. Patiala, Chandigarh & many other cities are facing unannounced cuts daily. The daily demand for power has touched 1711 lakh units per day against availability of 1479 lakh units from all sources.
PSEB is getting 452 ….

The Shiromani Akali Dal has said that Manmohan Singh Prime Minister should have consulted Sikhs on the India-US nuclear deal before seeking the party’s support on the sensitive issue.
Simarnjit Singh Mann, chief of SAD said, “The Sikh prime minister of India never consulted us on this issue. Then, how can we support him?”.
Asked what was his party’s stand on the nuclear deal, he said, “We do not mind the deal if India denuclearizes, signs Non-Proliferation Treaty & Comprehensive Test Ban ….

The BJP alleged that the UPA government has failed to control inflation & was so helpless that now even the finance minister has stopped giving alibis.
BJP said, “Inflation is almost touching 12 per cent now. The government is entangled in the situation. Price rise is a demon beyond their control. The govt is clueless (about what to do) & the proof of this is that even the finance minister has now stopped giving any alibis on the situation”.
BJP further said, ….

The CBI has on Friday made it clear that they had no evidence against Dr Rajesh Talwar. CBI joint director Arun Kumar said, “As per our investigations Krishna, Rajkumar & Vijay Mandal looked like the prime culprits. We have no evidence against Rajesh Talwar”.
However, CBI made it clear that all revelations were based on the narco-analysis & lie detector test & the agency still has to find corroborative evidence to nail the guilty. Meanwhile, CBI has arrested the third accused ….

An eerie silence prevailed in the communally sensitive area of J C Nagar, near Palace Grounds, in the Karnataka capital after baton charge by the local police on Friday. Trouble was started in the afternoon when lumps of pork were thrown inside a religious place in the area by a small group of troublemakers. They entered the religious place & damaged a few tiles, reportedly, in retaliation to a stone-pelting incident on an adjacent religious place of another community two ….

Punjab Police has recovered six used bombs which were laying abandoned in the garbage. A senior official of Police has said that when employees of Municipal Corporation were on their routine job found six bomb shells from garbage.
The empty bomb shells approximately 5 inches long were packed in the gunny bag. The official said that such type of explosive material being used in the army.

The Punjab police has arrested two notorious drug smugglers, believed to have political connections, & recovered 6 kg of opium from them in Amritsar. Both the arrested drug smugglers, Gian Singh & Jagjot Singh, of Tarn Taran district were intercepted by a police patrol party near the old Sabji Mandi Hall Gate.
Six kilogram of opium was recovered from them. The consignment, smuggled from Rajasthan, was to be delivered to a person in Amritsar. Meanwhile sources in the police department informed ….

Twenty five MLAs of Chhattisgarh have neen suspended on Wednesday from the state assembly for violating the House rule. The members including leader of Opposition Mahendra Karma, PCC president Dhanendra Sahu, acting PCC President Satya Narayan Sharma, NCP President Novel Verma were suspended from the House for violating the House rule.
Congress through a call attention motion raised several questions on the issue of disputed land of Bodosara, where a group of dalits wanted to construct a religious place on a ….

A bus has been plunged down a cliff near the southern Bolivian city of Potosi in which 47 killed & 10 injured.
The bus was covering a local route from Potosi, 570 kilometres south of La Paz, when it lost control & fell down a steep 200-metre cliff.