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A 25-year-old girl was arrested by the police in Ghaziabad on Tuesday for allegedly pretending to be an IAS officer.

A year after the terror attacks, television viewers will be able to relive the moments as a movie, Un Hazaaron Ke Naam, produced by Sphere Origins Multivision, will be aired on Star Plus at 10 pm on November 26. The movie, directed by Sidharth Sengupta, stars veterans Vinod Khanna and Seema Biswas.

To dream of food, may end up making you feel hungry when you wake up! But on a more serious note, the interpretation of each dream on food largely depends on the type of food, its preparation and also its presentation.

With the deadline approaching, the much-hyped Rs 142-crore educational scheme of the Punjab government for upgrade and modernising rural schools is nowhere near completion.

Making no reference to the indictment of top BJP and Sangh leaders in the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition, the government, in its Action Taken Report (ATR) which was tabled today in Parliament along with the inquiry report following the din over its publication in The Indian Express, said steps will be taken to expedite hearing of cases related to the 1992 demolition.

When Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani stood up on Monday to react to the contents of the Liberhan Commission report first revealed by The Indian Express, he recalled the statement that has come to define the ambiguity in the relationship of the man with the movement.

Besides the case against L K Advani and seven other BJP/VHP leaders in a Rae Bareli court, another case related to Babri Masjid demolition is pending in the Special Court (Ayodhya Matters) in Lucknow.

The Congress on Tuesday took a dig at former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for his "guilt by association" in the demolition of Babri Masjid saying he could have otherwise quit the BJP after the incident, even as the ruling party said the police would investigate the findings of Liberhan Commission and file primary and supplementary chargesheets against the accused.

In what is clearly among the most candid assessments on China from the Indian leadership, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday conceded that there was some amount of "assertiveness" from the neighbouring country for which he did not have any ready answers, but did believe that engagement was still the best way forward.

The BJP-JD(U) combine on Tuesday created an uproar in the Lok Sabha over the alleged multi-crore scam involving former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and forced an adjournment of the House.

Forest officers in Petlad range of Anand district were surprised when they actually succeeded in trapping a crocodile in Limbali village about a month ago.

The trusted old bicycle will be part of a civic drive to secure the city. The BMC will buy 100 bicycles to ensure swift movement for guards at 20 large civic premises that may be potential terror targets.

Last week's attack on the IBN-Lokmat office by alleged Shiv Sena activists wasn't the first such one.

The Lucknow police found bodies of two children in Mohanlalganj area on Tuesday evening. They were identified as Preeti (12) and Rahul (6), children of Raju Kumar, a farmer of Gora village. Preeti was the student of Class VI. "Both children have injury marks of an axe on their heads," said Circle Officer, Mohanlalganj, S K Tiwari.

Dr D V Jindal, a city-based retired English lecturer, has finally got the three increments he was supposed to get for doing a PhD during service.

Pickpockets at the New Delhi railway station seem to have found a soft target — Chandigarh-bound passengers of the Shatabdi Express.

The Municipal Corporation has decided to bring more parking lots under the ambit of paid parking system.

Two more students of the Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Sector 12, have tested positive for swine flu.

The Income Tax Department had seized assets worth Rs 45.45 crore and executed 422 warrants in Gujarat in the financial year 2008-09, a release from the office of Rajya Sabha member Parimal Nathwani said.

Interesting times are round the corner for undergraduate students of Delhi University. The varsity plans to introduce a "credit transfer" system at undergraduate level when the semester system is introduced in the university from 2010-11 academic session, Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental said on Tuesday.