At least 39 killed as bus falls into Narmada canal

Ahmedabad: A Gujarat state transport bus carrying about 50 schoolchildren fell into the Narmada main irrigation canal in Vadodara district early Wednesday. The bodies of 39 victims, including the conductor, have been recovered, officials said.

The accident occurred at about 6 a.m., 70 km from Vadodara, when the bus from Vag-Bhod village was on its way to Bodeli, according to Vadodara fire brigade officials.
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Street dogs graduate in explosives detection course!

Raipur: They are alert, know danger when they see it and are certainly not hard to come by. Street dogs are now being roped in for an explosives detection course in Maoist violence-hit Chhattisgarh.

Four street dogs have just graduated in a nine-month Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) detection course from the Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College (CTJWC) in Kanker district, 140 km from here.
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Maoists blast rail track as Jharkhand shuts down

Ranchi: Maoist guerrillas blew up a four-metre-long rail track in Giridih district of Jharkhand early Wednesday, while enforcing a 24-hour shutdown, the police said.

About 20 rebels of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) blasted the rail track between Hazaribagh Road and Parasnath railway stations at around 2 a.m.
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Mayawati lambasts Congress, Rahul Gandhi

Agra:Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati Tuesday said the Congress party had done nothing for Dalits and her party was the true well-wisher of Dalits and custodian of their rights.

Addressing a big public meeting at the Bhim Nagri in Kotla Bagichi of Agra, Mayawati also announced a new division of Aligarh, and Kasganj as a new district to be renamed Kanshi Ram Nagar, Agra to become a new police zone for efficient policing, two-room tenements for those under the Below Poverty Line instead of one room, appointment of safai karamcharis or cleaners in villages.
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Patil holds high-level meeting on Naga issue

New Delhi:Home Minister Shivraj Patil Tuesday discussed how to take the dialogue forward with the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) after the dominant tribal separatist group expressed dissatisfaction over the delay in solving the Naga issue.

The NSCN-IM accused a section of the government of deliberately prolonging the peace process by going back on their promises and strongly suggested a more positive approach.
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Two Indian engineers’ bodies to be flown home Wednesday

New Delhi: The bodies of two Indian engineers, killed in a suicide bomb attack by rebels on their convoy in Afghanistan, will be flown in to the capital New Delhi Wednesday morning.

Officials in the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said the bodies would be brought on a flight of a private Afghanistan airlines, Kam Air, and would reach Delhi airport at 8.30 a.m.
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Government mulling ways to get over creamy layer hitch

New Delhi: The government may double the income slab cut-off from the present Rs.250,000 to determine the creamy layer or the affluent among the other backward classes (OBC) so that more people can benefit from the 27 percent quota in institutes of higher learning, a senior official said Tuesday.

This could be a way out instead of filing a review petition in the Supreme Court against its verdict upholding the OBC quota, while excluding from it the creamy layer, the official said.
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House proceedings may be quieter from Wednesday

New Delhi: Parliament proceedings could become smoother from Wednesday with the opposition parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), inclined to shun disrupting the house any more on issues like rising prices.

The two houses had to be adjourned for the whole day Tuesday when parliament met for the first day of the post-recess budget session. The opposition, Left parties and others like the Samajwadi Party (SP) repeatedly disrupted the proceedings.
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Chinese tense as men in khaki swamp Olympic torch relay route

New Delhi:A dramatic mock Olympic torch relay run by Tibetans here Tuesday afternoon stunned the authorities even as they promised a Chinese delegation that the real torch relay Thursday will be held under a tight security blanket and pass off peacefully.

Fearing a repeat of the disturbances that marred the torch relay in London and Paris, commandos from paramilitary forces and thousands of policemen swarmed the two-kilometre route from the presidential palace to the World War I India Gate monument in the heart of the capital.
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Rane faces privilege move over remark on session

Mumbai: Maharashtra Revenue Minister Narayan Rane was embarrassed in the state assembly Tuesday when a breach of privilege motion was moved against him for saying that the budget session of the legislature was extended with the sole motive of targeting him.

Leader of Opposition Ramdas Kadam, who moved the motion, contended that Rane’s allegation, made outside the legislature Friday, amounted to casting aspersions on the house business advisory committee took the decision, and thus constituted a breach of privilege of the assembly.
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