Tripping of transmission line from Wazirpur in north Delhi to Geeta Colony in east Delhi led to continuos powercuts in many south and east Delhi areas on Saturday afternoon.

A gang of undergarment clad robbers looted jewellery and cash worth over Rs 2 lakhs from half-a-dozen houses in Modinagar and Pilkhuwa towns of Ghaziabad on Saturday. So far the police officers have said that the gang committed robberies in the two towns simultaneously after Friday midnight.

The new regulation by the University Grants Commission for the appointment of principals will create more vacancies in city colleges. It has irked the All-Bengal Principals’ Council (ABPC) which pointed out that a principal could not remain in the post for more than two five-year terms.
At present, once appointed a principal serves till retirement.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is introducing unit area assessment of property from 2010-11 fiscal year. The proposal was passed by the mayor-in-council meeting on Saturday. So far, property tax was being calculated on the basis of a building’s notional rent. During the Left Front civic board tenure, Asian Deve-lopment Bank, the

Heavy rains in Haryana and Punjab have suddenly made some basic necessities a lot costlier in New Delhi: the prices of green vegetables, for instance, shot up in the past three days.

India is planning to adopt the Chinese model of hybrid rice production, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said on Saturday. A Central team led by minister of state for agriculture K.V. Thomas visited China recently, collected information and submitted a report to him with his suggestions on the development of the Chinese hybrid rice.
The minister was speaking to mediapersons at the end of a two-day workshop on “Bringing Green Revolution To Eastern India.”

Union minister Farooq Abdullah met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P. Chidambaram here Satur-day to seek assistance for the Jammu and Kashmir government headed by his son Omar.

In order to demonstrate the consolidation of the Congress-Trinamul Congress alliance to the people of West Bengal, Ms Mamata Banerjee has invited Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee for the Martyrs’ Day rally. The Trinamul Congress organises this annual event on July 21 at Esplanade to commemorate the killing of 13 Youth

Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia on Saturday exhorted people to have faith in the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism as the lack of “culture of dispute settlement” among them was proving to be a major cause of rising pendency with the courts.

With chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattachar-jee sitting by his side, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar made it clear on Saturday that the Centre disapproved of acquisition of fertile land for industry. Had Mr Bhattacharjee paid heed to the Centre’s advice, his party would not have faced such a backlash from the people who are angry over his land acquisition overdrive.