Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Monday said that influx from Bangladesh is no longer restricted to Assam alone but it was a global phenomenon.

The Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday set aside an order of the state government issued to pay compensation to certain persons of the Muslim community who were arrested in connection with the Mecca Masjid bomb blasts and later acquitted from the case.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has termed the Muzaffarnagar riots as “very tragic incident” and said that the guilty must be punished. The Prime Minister said that the top priority of the Central government would be to ensure that people displaced from their homes due to the riots are sent back safely.

The economy is in bad shape and a pragmatic approach is needed to be taken on providing subsidies, the Supreme Court said on Monday while setting aside the stay orders by the Madras and Kerala high courts on the implementation of the Centre’s policy on deregulation of diesel prices.

Inflation based on the wholesale price index accelerated to a six-month high at 6.1 per cent in August due to soaring food prices and high fuel costs.

Ahead of the crucial meeting of the National Integration Council scheduled for September 23 to discuss the contentious issue of communal riots, the Intelligence Bureau, in a classified report submitted to the Union home ministry and the Cabinet Secretariat on Monday, pointed out that at least 50 districts across 13 states are “highly prone and sensitive to communal riots in the runup to the Lok Sabha elections”.

BJP patriarch L.K. Advani on Monday appeared to have finally shed his reservation to the party leadership’s decision to anoint Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate by being effusive in his praise for the Gujarat chief minister for ushering in development in his state.

Two days after the murder of 21-year-old NRI student Anmol Sarna, the Delhi police arrested six persons, two guards and four friends of Anmol. DCP southeast P. Karunakaran confirmed the arrests.

Tossing a foot on his amplifier and playing some mind-blowing tunes, Sanjeev Thomas ensures that he easily glides into the souls of those who listen to his music.

The IB has pointed out in its analysis the potential vulnerable areas and states that could witness a communal backlash.