Sleuths from the crime branch of Delhi police have arrested five burglars allegedly involved in several burglaries in the city and recovered cosmetic products worth `25 lakhs and other goods.

In an exemplary show of brotherhood and communal harmony, 45 Hindu prisoners in Tihar Jail have been fasting along with 1,800 Muslim inmates during Ramzan.

Addressing his first public rally after becoming the BJP’s campaign chief, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the Congress of hiding behind a veil of secularism to cover its failures.

The Bahujan Samaj Party will continue to hold caste-based rallies in Uttar Pradesh but these will now be re-christened “Samajik Bhaichara Sammelans”.

State-owned oil marketing companies on Sunday raised petrol price by Rs 1.55 per litre excluding local state taxes due to fall in the value of the rupee. This is the fourth hike in six weeks.

A Catholic priest from Andhra Pradesh, Father Leo Koppala, has been arrested in the United States for molesting a 12-year-old girl. Fr Koppala has been serving at the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church at Blue Earth, Minnesota, for nearly four years.

In damage-control mode after upsetting Bhutan by withdrawing its cooking gas and kerosene subsidy, India has quickly reached out to the leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), which won the country’s just concluded elections, assuring him of India’s “steadfast and unflinching support”.

Addressing a public meeting at Pune’s Fergusson College on Sunday, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi once again targeted the Congress over the issue of corruption. He said that the Commonwealth Games scam has ruined the country’s honour. Mr Modi also stressed on the need to use more technology in agriculture to increase production.

Maharashtra Congress chief Manikrao Thakre reacted sharply to Gujarat CM Narendra Modi’s criticism of the Congress and called him communal and a riot-monger. Mr Thakre said Mr Modi, instead of badmouthing Maharash-tra, should worry about Gujarat.

Scripting the poll blueprint to ensure that the BJP does not lose the Lok Sabha election the third time in a row, the RSS has exhorted all its affiliates to show the same kind of zeal as was displayed during the Ram Janmabhoomi movement to bring the saffron party to power. Hindutva poster-boy and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is considered the top contender for the saffron party’s prime ministerial candidate.