Thick smog and the resultant low visibility in the NCR region led to two accidents in which five persons were killed and seven others injured.
Tension prevailed in parts of the city following clashes between youth and police after the body of man bearing injury marks was recovered.
Two top ULFA leaders,who surrendered before the BSF,have been brought to the city even as the banned outfit called a 12-hour Assam Bandh demanding their unconditional release.
Chandrayaan-II moon mission,which will help in analysis of mineral composition and undertake terrain mapping of the moon,will be completed by 2012-13,said Dr M Annadurai.
Four persons,including a woman,were injured in a blast in Sopore town of north Kashmir's Baramulla district,officials said.
Around 20 per cent polling was recorded till mid-day in the by-elections to one Lok Sabha and 31 Assembly seats spread over seven states.
Five railwaymen,including an officer,were run over by Delhi-bound Dehradun Janshatabdi Express near Ghaziabad at around 11.30 am.
Ex-Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda,under investigation from the ED and I-T dept,will not be discharged from hospital on Saturday as he had a stomach upset.
Faheem Ansari,accused of facilitating 26/11 attacks,has moved the HC seeking re-trial on the ground that he had no confidence in the judge.
'Government is aware of the problems faced by the entrepreneurs and is committed to providing every sort of facility to them so that they can effectively contribute their bit in making the State industrially prosperous.'
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed officials to speed up the work on the upcoming AIIMS in Bhopal.
Hours before Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's visit to Midnapore,three youths were shot dead by Maoists in Kusbani jungle in the district.
Seven students were injured,two of them seriously,when their school van was hit by a mini truck near Kashmere Gate in Delhi.
A student of IIT-Mumbai allegedly shot himself dead at his home here and police said a suicide note reflected his "disenchantment" with life.
A Delhi court reserved its order on the bail plea of Sukhdev Pehalwan,one of the accused in Nitish Katara murder case.
The Delhi High Court allowed the DDA to go ahead with the allotment process of over 5,280 flats to the people who were successful in lucky draw.
The Supreme Court agreed to consider a petition filed by a convicted Kashmiri terrorist challenging the validity of a TADA provision.
India's per capita availability of agricultural land has shrunk to 0.3 hectare per farmer compared to over 11 hectares in the developed world.
Prime Minister said Pakistan has not provided any input on Headley,who was arrested by the FBI for plotting a major attack in India at the behest of LeT.
Defence Minister A K Antony said that the terrorist infrastructure is still intact in Pakistan and most of the outfits are based in the vicinity of their army bases.
A sackful of explosives,two directional landmines,firearms and a 9 mm pistol were recovered from Sarenga forest area in Maoist-hit Bankura district,police said on Friday.
The raging debate thrown up by land reforms suggested by the D Bandopadhyay Committee that Bihar should enact legislation to protect sharecroppers has refused to die down with the state govt saying that it was not bound to accept them.
Unprecedented security cover has been put in place in the town ahead of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's two-day visit to Maoist-hit West Midnapore district.
Activists of RSS,VHP and Bajrang Dal were allegedly involved in setting afire a police jeep and government offices during a bandh.
Building a world-class university is far more than a construction project,said Richard C Levin,president of Yale University.


