Investigations into the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case have established that the 19-year-old Mumbai teenager and her three alleged associates had sustained a total of 80 bullet wounds during the “shootout” on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in the early hours of June 15, 2004. Investigators are still clueless about the firearms from which nine bullets were fired at the deceased persons.

Even as Gujarat CM Narendra Modi continued to be slammed for his “Hindu nationalist” and “puppy” remarks, the BJP came up with a somewhat bizarre defence, saying his comments “reveal the compassion, the childlike heart of Narendra Modi”.

Top sources in AICC indicates that Congress president Sonia Gandhi has finally decided to end the Telangana deadlock. This will be conveyed to the party’s highest policy making body, the CWC, within the next few days to decide in the favour of creating a separate Telangana state.

Chikan work, an embroidery form that Lucknow is famous for, is now facing a Chinese invasion.
“China has brought in a machine-made cheap imitation of chikan embroidery. Hundreds of thousands of metres of embroidered cloth, often with very similar designs and forms to chikan embroidery, have flooded the market.

In the first round of firing during the alleged fake Ishrat encounter case, accused Gujarat cops, including Tarun Barot and Mohan Kalswa, exhausted their ammunition and stopped firing. For the second round of firing, Barot and Kalswa forcibly took away the weapons of I.K. Chauhan and started firing at the detainees.

It is back to the basics for the intelligence agencies as the Centre is formulating key strategies to bolster the “human intelligence” network (HUMINT) in the country to meet growing terror threats.

The former MHA official R.V.S. Mani, who had filed ministry’s two affidavits pertaining to the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case before the Gujarat high court in 2009, in his deposition before the CBI has said that the “Government of India was not aware of the inquiry being conducted by S.P. Tamang (the then Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate) into the case at the time of filing the first affidavit.”

Taking a hard lesson from the use of small LPG cylinders in the Bodh Gaya serial blasts, the Bihar government on Saturday banned the sale of small cylinders statewide and began removing encroachments near the Mahabodhi temple for proper security of the Buddhist shrine.

Emulating party chief and chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Trinamul Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee on Saturday launched a scathing attack against the state election commissioner Mira Pande, alleging that she had crossed her limit.

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant has attained criticality Saturday midnight and will start generating safe power for consumption in 40 days, according to Atomic Energy Commission chairman S.K. Sinha.