The Centre on Friday declared the Indian Mujahideen outfit a terrorist organisation. The IM is suspected of having a role in various terror attacks in the country, including the Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Delhi serial blasts. The IM has now been banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.

A former corporator of Pune was killed on Thursday evening outside Commonwealth Games building situated in the heart of the city when preparations were being made for the official launch of Games’ ticketing event.

Bollywood actor Raghubir Yadav who was reportedly missing after an arrest warrant was issued against him, was arrested at the Mumbai Central railway station on Friday night, after his estranged wife alerted the police.

The Delhi high court on Friday stayed an earlier order of a single judge bench for constituting a panel of experts to ascertain health hazards from over 5,000 mobile phone towers in the city. A division bench comprising of Chief Justice of the Delhi high court Dipak Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur stayed the May 31 order of Justice Kailash

An Alliance Air aircraft made a precautionary landing at the New Delhi IGI airport on Friday after airport staff at Pathankot had spotted some pieces of rubber on the airport runway soon after the plane had taken off for Delhi. Officials of Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India (domestic), said it was found at Delhi airport that the tyres of the aircraft were in perfect order. The aircraft was inspected after it landed.

Amidst the impasse on the issue of the power tariff order, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday said that her government would not do anything which could harm the interests of anybody. Further, in response to the claims of the DERC that the private power distribution companies (discoms) are earning healthy profits, two discoms on Friday, while replying to the power regulator’s letters, stated that the claims are wrong.

Three persons have been arrested in connection with Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League president Madan Tamang’s murder. All three have been arrested from North Bengal. “Two of the accused were arrested from Kalimpong,” state director general of police Bhupinder Singh said. The two had received injuries in the firing that took place at the spot after the murder, he added.

Two unidentified armed assailants barged into a mobile shop in a south Delhi locality on Thursday evening and shot dead its 36-year-old owner.
Police officials said Harvinder Singh, the owner of the shop located near well number two in Katwaria Sarai was about to close his shop on Thursday when two unidentified assailants entered at around 11.55 pm and fired seven shots at him and escaped.

Another catastrophe was averted at Mumbai airport on Friday. More than 500 persons aboard two planes had a narrow escape after a Kingfisher aircraft was cleared to land on a runway where a SpiceJet plane was stalled due to a technical snag. Luckily, the error was discovered in time by air traffic control (ATC), which instructed the landing Kingfisher aircraft to perform a go-around. The pilots of both aircraft followed ATC instructions.

The heat and humidity in the city abated on Friday with the maximum temperature being recorded at 39 degrees Celsius.
The minimum temperature which had broken records of the last 41 years at 34.7 degrees Celsius on Thursday, also came down to 28.4 degrees. While the maximum t