At least 16 persons, including 14 women, were killed and 46 others injured in a stampede in Hardwar on Tuesday.

A 32-year-old woman was shot at and critically injured by two unidentified assailants at her Bharthal village residence in Dwarka on Tuesday morning.
The police suspects the involvement of her former husband in the case. The

Sachin Tendulkar plays a shot on the third day of the first Test against West Indies in New Delhi on Tuesday.

As various Commonwealth Games projects are already under the scrutiny of different probe agencies, a new front was sought to be opened on Tuesday in the Supreme Court with an NGO seeking demolition of the Games Village as it is allegedly built on Yamuna bed in violation of “wetland” norms.

Former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh, who is out on bail in the cash-for-vote scam, on Tuesday claimed to have “full information” on the episode but refused to reveal them as the matter is sub-judice.

Right to Food campaign activists stage a protest outside Krishi Bhavan in New Delhi on Tuesday. — G.N. JHA

Maharashtra is in the process of signing memorandums of understanding for 40 mega-projects, each worth more than `500 crores. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday said that this was proof enough that Maharashtra, and not Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, is the state attracting maximum industries.

Calling Ayodhya the country’s “cultural legacy”, the BJP on Tuesday tried to play down reports of its alliance partner JD(U)’s reluctance to attend the concluding function of the saffron party’s Janswabhiman yatra in Ayodhya on November 17.

With Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar all set to begin his most elaborate and politically far-sighted tour of Bihar called Seva Yatra on Wednesday, the state’s Opposition parties are fuming at the move, calling it drama and a drain on public money.

The BJP has galvanised its rank and file to mobilise people for Mr L.K. Advani’s Janchetna Yatra, entering Jodhpur on November 9. But the yatra has sparked off a war of words between the ruling Congress and the Opposition BJP over the issue of corruption.