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Just as Punjab enters poll mode with assembly elections due in March, Punjab Police have recovered a huge cache of explosives, arms and ammunition including 11 kg RDX after arresting three members of a Sikh terrorist organization. According to the Police, the arrested persons belong to International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) and were planning to disrupt the next year’s assembly elections. 11 detonators, four hand grenade, 11 timer devices, two pistols with ... [full story]

A minor earthquake on Wednesday in Alwar, Rajasthan claimed the life of a 10-year-old girl as panicky students ran out of their school resulting in a stampede. The girl was killed in the stampede in her school building as students rushed out of their classes after the temblor measuring 3.9 hit the city, police said. No loss of life and damage to property were reported. The temblor was recorded at ... [full story]

The famous Beating retreat ceremony performed by BSF and Pakistan Rangers at the Indo-Pak check post at Wagah which attracted thousands of people from both sides of the border is all set to change as both sides have mutually decided to abandoned aggressive postures adopted during the ceremony. Experts believe that restructuring of the aggressive marching drill by India is a move to enhance new confidence building measure aimed at improving ... [full story]

Newly created states like Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh have left behind a trail where more and more communities are now demanding separate states. After debates over creation of Telangana in Andhra Pradesh, now Bhojpuri-speaking people Meeting under the aegis of the 21st All India Bhojpuri  Sahitya Sammelan in Patna has demanded the creation of a separate state and protection of the interests of the people speaking the Bhojpuri language. According to ... [full story]

In the first arrest in connection with Sept. 8 blasts in Malegaon, a Bangladeshi national Noorul Hooda, has been arrested and charged of planting one of the three bombs that went off around a crowded mosque during Friday prayers. Police have so far released sketches of three suspects in the Malegaon attacks, two of whom they said had bought bicycles at local shops on which the bombs are believed to have ... [full story]

In a tragic incident, noted Sufi singer brothers Puran Chand Wadali and Pyare Lal Wadali and three members of their troupe were injured when their vehicle collided with a stationary truck on the Amritsar- Jalandhar road in the wee hours on Monday. They were going to Dehra Dun to attend 'Virasat Mela', a mega event slated for this evening. While Puran Chand Wadali got internal injuries, his younger brother Pyare Lal ... [full story]

Panic has gripped the beautiful town of Dehradun after an unidentified youth threw acid on two young girls yesterday. One of the victims Rangoli is the sister of Actor Kangana Ranaut and is supposed to get married in a month's time. The police have meanwhile prepared Sketches of the man after initial investigations and a police teams sent to Mandi and Una in Himachal Pradesh from where the girls hail. An ... [full story]

A MiG-29 of the Indian Air Force crashed into paddy fields near Ambala in Haryana on Thursday but the pilot ejected out to safety . About a dozen persons were working on the fields when the jet crashed in the afternoon. None of them was injured. A tractor, however, was damaged. ... [full story]

Clearly the relief package announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier this year has failed to bring any relief to the poor farmer community in Vidarbha as another six farmers committed suicide Recurrent droughts, crop failure, rising debts and falling prices have been the major reasons behind the alarming spurt in farmer suicides. It took over 600 farmer suicides to attract the Central Government's attention in the first place. There ... [full story]

Calling off the six-week-old ceasefire, The Indian army has resumed military operations against the rebel outfit ULFA after the group stepped up attacks in the state and extortion demands. The army was forced to launch an offensive after an extortion call by the ULFA against all non-Assamese in the state. Meanwhile, the ULFA has asked all people in the North East except “indigenous” inhabitants to pay “taxes” to be fixed by ... [full story]