With BJP president Rajnath Singh deciding to put the entire rank and file of the party under Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi while deftly elevating himself to the league of stalwarts Atal Behari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani, the wily saffron leader has proved right those who say he is a “fox”.

India on Saturday accused Pakistani troops of violating the November 2003 ceasefire by firing rocket projectile grenades (RPGs), heavy machine guns and small arms towards its forward posts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch area.

The Congress on Saturday demanded that the food security bill should be named after the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

India will soon have laboratories that can measure the amount of nicotine and tar that a cigarette contains. The first-of-its-kind apex laboratory will soon come up in Chandigarh along with four regional laboratories across India. The move, health ministry officials say, gains significance as the amount of nicotine in cigarettes sold in India has been found to be way above than the global cut-off.

A metropolitan magistrate at the Saket court complex has registered a complaint against a convict, who turned violent after his conviction and threw a wooden desk at her. Luckily for the magistrate, the desk flung at her just brushed past her shoulder.

Heavy rains lashed the national capital on Saturday bringing pleasant respite to Delhiites from hot and humid conditions and also bringing along the harrowing perennial problem of waterlogging that accompany a downpour in several areas. However, the weather turned pleasant by the evening.

Accusing the city government and Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) of siding with the power distribution companies, Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel slammed the “anti-people” decision on power tariff hike and said the party will hold a massive rally at Ramlila Grounds on August 11 to demand rollback of the hike.

The police has arrested four persons, including a woman, for their alleged involvement in pick pocketing from different stations of the Delhi Metro during a special checking drive. The accused have been identified as Babita, 26, Moti, 19, Ravi, 32, and Waseem, 24.

The police arrested three jewellers Deepak Verma, Naushad Ali and Anil Vats for allegedly buying robbed and stolen ornaments. “Snatchers Nitin, Akshay and Rahul, who were arrested on Saturday, confessed that they sold the gold ornaments to Deepak, Naushad and Anil,” said a senior police officer.

A defence witness in the December 16 gangrape case, on Saturday, produced before the fast-track court a video clipping which showed that two youth facing trial were present at a music function on the night of the incident.