The special cell of the Delhi police has arrested an alleged militant affiliated with the banned People’s United Liberation Front (PULF) along with his associate from Hazrat Nizamuddin area of southeast Delhi on Tuesday.

The security forces gunned down eight armed Maoists and succeeded in recovering their bodies from Ranjha jungle in Salboni, West Bengal. The rebels usually ensure that the police is unable to lay its hands on slain Maoists’ bodies.

The Delhi Metro will throw open the Qutub Minar-Gurgaon line on June 21. The long-awaited inaugural of the stretch will clear way for the Qutub Minar-Central Secretariat stretch of the Gurgaon metro line.

In an effort to protect the rights of minors, the government has decided to prohibit authorities from sending them to mental asylums and provide for separate treatment for those suffering from communicable diseases.

The Ghaziabad administration on Wednesday deployed personnel of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) to prevent anybody from taking over at the Sonia Vihar head regulator, through which Ganga water reaches Delhi’s Sonia Vihar water treatment plant, in Muradnagar.

In one of the most successful encounters of recent times, the security forces at Ranjha jungle in Salboni, West Midnapore gunned down eight armed Maoists and even succeeded in recovering their bodies. Usually, Maoists ensure that police does not lay its hands on bodies of their comrades felled by police bullets. The dead include three women.

With the release of the Annual Plan 2010-11, the Delhi government on Wednesday confirmed approval of Rs 11,400 crores in the plan outlay. The plan size will be funded with the Central Plan Assistance of Rs 1,284 crores and the Delhi government’s own resources of Rs 10,116 crores, stated Delhi government officials.
The Annual Plan was released after a meeting between the Delhi government and Planning Commission officials.

The central investigating agencies, including CBI and the National Investigating Agency (NIA), are probing the alleged terror links of a high ranking official of the Assam government, detained by the security agencies.

The Indraprastha Gas Limited, provider of CNG in the capital and its surrounding areas, has increased the price by over 25 per cent. The new rates will become effective from midnight on Wednesday.

The government is preparing to hold talks with the banned outfit Ulfa, and the modalities to initiate the dialogue are expected to be finalised soon. Following consecutive meetings with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P. Chidambaram in the city, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday said, “Majority of Ulfa