National News: General

The Bombay Chamber Orchestra (BCO) will pay a tribute to the victims of 26/11 at the National Centre for Performing Art (NCPA), Nariman Point, on Sunday.

Former Mumbai police commissioner Hasan Gafoor could face disciplinary action for accusing senior police officers of not willing to take on terrorists on 26/11.

The Amboli police on Friday night detained the driver of a cash-transport van who fled with the van and stole Rs 40 lakh of the Rs 83 lakh in cash it contained.

The two men who shot at an Irla businessman on Wednesday could possibly belong to some gang, police have said.

New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- The Tihar jail complex is going green. The authorities plan to use the garbage churned out by the jail's 11,500 inmates each day to produce biogas and electricity, and also tap solar energy across the 400-acre premises. The jail complex wants to produce all the energy it requires through green means in about three years.

BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has indicated that a decision on re-inducting former chief minister Kalyan Singh into the party might have to wait till the new BJP president takes charge in December.

The National Investigation Agency?s (NIA) maiden chargesheet has exposed the nexus militants in the Northeast enjoy with politicians, bureaucrats and contractors.

Former Orissa Chief Minister and veteran Congress leader Janaki Ballabh Patnaik was on Saturday appointed the governor of Assam while Dr Kamla has been transferred to Gujarat from Tripura.

Two bicycles laden with explosives near a police station in Nalbari, some 60 km from Guwahati, turned a peaceful Sunday morning into ?thick black smoke with nails and metal pieces flying in all directions?, in the words of Mohhamed Zamed Ali (60), who owns a paan shop near the police station.

Ever since the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) exploded on Assam?s subversive scene in 1989, the outfit has almost ritually struck in the days leading to Republic Day and Independence Day to convey a strong message to ?occupational India?.

A former television journalist and his accomplice have been arrested on charges of allegedly extorting money from policemen on the pretext of implicating them in fake sting operations, the police said.

There was a time when his colleagues must have thought 26-year-old Nitin Agarwal a plain old basket case.

Visitors had a hard time at the India International Trade Fair (IITF) on the first weekend since it opened doors to the general public on November 19.

The Centre on Saturday sought to distance itself from a campaign to get the Board of Control for Cricket in India ban on Mohammed Azharuddin over match-fixing revoked.

An international jurists? conference on terror in the capital on Saturday witnessed high drama when Saudi Arabia?s ambassador Faisal-al-Trad walked out protesting comments by noted jurist Ram Jethmalani blaming Muslim nations for the spread of terrorism.

National Front leader Nayeem Khan, an associate of moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has asked for an end to the quiet diplomacy with the Centre.

The government on Saturday slammed the Election Commission and the judiciary for ?going slow? on cases of electoral misconduct registered against candidates and political parties during elections.

Mumbai, Nov. 22 -- The police can now read your e-mails without prior permission from the home department. The Parliament recently cleared an amendment to the Information Technology (IT) Act, allowing the police to intercept or decrypt online information without seeking the home department's nod. Rising instances of cyber crime have prompted the move aimed at cutting red tape.

The first public private partnership housing project of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Capital?s largest land owning and developing agency, is in trouble.