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Many injured as students slug it out at Panihati College Violence erupted at Panihati College in North 24-Parganas over distribution of nomination papers on Tuesday.

Stating that talks with the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) were leading nowhere because the banned outfit's leadership was outside the country, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said the pressure on ULFA will be maintained despite the government's willingness to hold talks.

With discordant voices within the Hurriyat Conference threatening to erode credibility of the separatists' behind-the -scenes engagement with New Delhi, chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Monday asked Hurriyat members not to issue "any statement to the media independently" and abolished several posts.

The district police is set to attach two more properties of former parliamentarian Atiq Ahmad who is currently lodged in Lalitpur jail in connection with the murder of BSP legislator Raju Pal.

Tapan Mahato (34), a local CPM committee member in Jhargram, was killed on Monday by suspected CPI (Maoist) cadres.

With few days remaining for the election to the post of Pune mayor, the Congress, which sat in the opposition benches in the Pune Municipal Corporation for two-and-half years, is seeking an equal share of power in the civic body for supporting the NCP candidate for the post.

Even as the Left Front, at a meeting held a week ago, decided to fight the Opposition together, its junior ally Forward Bloc continued with its tirade, blaming the CPM for the series of recent electoral reverses for the ruling Left in the state.

Close to a year after 26/11, Home Minister R R Patil on Monday said that the state government, learning from its past mistakes, has implemented several measures to increase the state police's capacity to counter any similar incidents.

THE UPA government looked set to give in to the Opposition's demand to immediately table the Liberhan Commission report in Parliament.

The state government has finally decided to withdraw the joint security forces stationed at 15-odd various schools in and around Lalgarh by November 30. "I have spoken to the West Midnapore DM who said the forces are likely to be removed from the schools by November 30,' said Bikram Sen, principal secretary of the school education department.

The Shiv Sena has threatened to "celebrate" the 350th death anniversary of Afzal Khan on Tuesday by displaying giant posters of Chhatrapati Shivaji killing the Adilshahi general.

Facing an existential crisis over a host of reasons, from transition to a younger generation to the primacy of ideology in the party, the BJP on Monday found a godsend in the findings of the Liberhan Commission Report.

Your editorial 'State of Jharkhand' (IE, November 21) has rightly argued that stability and accountability in politics should go hand in hand in Jharkhand.

In what could be an embarrassment for the Congress, former Union Textiles Minister Shankersinh Vaghela has been named by the Justice (retd) Liberhan Commission among the 60 people found to have a culpable role in fomenting communal trouble in the aftermath of Babri Masjid demolition in 1992.

The state Forest department has bagged the Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra Award for 2006, 2007 and 2008 for outstanding performance in social forestry and reclamation of wastelands in Gujarat.

As the NDA government in Bihar completes four years in office on Tuesday, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a bit low after the September bypoll defeat and Khagaria caste massacre, talks to Santosh Singh on his achievements, challenges, social engineering model, OBC and upper caste ire over Mahadalit politics, ties with the BJP and the strained Centre-state relationship.

The Election Commission (EC) may further relax norms for putting up banners and other forms of outdoor political advertisements during elections.

New Governors for Gujarat, Assam NEW DELHI: In a late evening reshuffle, Tripura Governor Kamala Beniwal was moved to Gujarat, Maharashtra Congressman D Y Patil was appointed Governor of Tripura and former Orissa chief minister J B Patnaik was made the Governor of Assam.

Indian Communists, especially the CPM, may hold the view that China or any other country has no role to play in resolving the decades-old differences between India and Pakistan, but comrades from Islamabad beg to differ.

Even as the Special Protection Group (SPG) reportedly blamed the UP police for Saturday's lapse in the security of Priyanka Vadra's convoy in which a police vehicle rammed against Toyota Qualis that she was driving, SPG's own security measures during Rahul Gandhi's and Priyanka's visit here on Friday left much to be desired.