S.S. Attaollahi-trained Carla, a run away winner on debut, holds an edge over others to win the Deccan Chronicle Juvenile Sprinters’ Million, the highlight of the races to be held here on Sunday.

The government’s decision to hike fuel prices is consolidating Opposition parties, which hit the streets in many states enforcing strikes in Kerala, Orissa and West Bengal. While the ruling Congress is on the defensive, its allies at the Centre are refusing to defend the decision.

Irfan Ghatala-trained Advantage Logan was ably ridden by S. Selvaraj to bag the Karnataka Sub-Area Cup, the main event of the races held here on Saturday.
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A group of angry lawyers allegedly vandalised the court room of Chief Justice Mohit Shantilal Shah of the Calcutta high court on Friday. They were protesting against their forcible eviction by the police from a room in the court premises following a dispute over its allotment on Thursday night.

Central security agencies have got input about Maoists setting up “action teams’’ to target security forces and politicians. The move by the Maoists is believed to have come after a recent meeting of the CPI(Maoist) central committee where the “action groups’’ set-up were asked to follow their mandate despite civilian lives being lost in such attacks.

In a bid to spread its influence among working class, the NCP will be setting up its trade union Rashtravadi Mazdoor focu-sing on the unorganised sector.
Party chief Sharad Pawar made the announcement saying such an organisation was needed to organise workers in the unorganised sector in the changed economic scenario.

The Union government is working towards creation of a recruitment board for Prasar Bharati. The need for the recruitment board arose after the broadcasting body came under criticism for ad hoc appointments.

After announcing the price hike on fuel prices, the government on Friday was at the receiving end from the Opposition. Demanding a roll back of the price hike, the main Opposition party, the BJP, lambasted the government for further burdening the aam aadmi. It charged the Centre of pursuing an “unjustified fuel price hike”. Prakash

In yet another attempt to control high food inflation, hovering at 16.9 per cent, the empowered group of ministers (EGOM) on food on Friday decided to release 5 million tonnes of wheat over the next 10 months under the open market sale scheme.

Asking people not to lose heart at the onset of a weak monsoon, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday said the country may receive excess rainfall this year and September could be the wettest month of the season.