Nine injured in Manipur blast
Imphal: Nine people — eight Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) workers and a girl child — were injured on Monday in a powerful bomb blast triggered by suspected rebels in Manipur, officials said. The blast took place in Ukhrul district, when a BRTF truck was carrying an unknown number of people, including the nine injured.
PC takes dig at Modi over snooping row
Mumbai: Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday took a dig at the Narendra Modi Government over the illegal snooping row, saying that in the “wonderful state of Gujarat, security is provided by stalking and snooping”. “The first time I have heard that there is a request for providing security and in that wonderful state, security is provided by stalking and snooping,” he told reporters.
Driver rapes girl in Amethi
lucknow: A jeep driver ferrying a girl student raped her while she was on her way home after receiving a laptop from a programme organised by the State Government in the Shukla Bazaar area of Amethi district on November 17. SP Hari lal Sonekar said the BA student of Satithan village had gone to collect laptop in the laptop distribution programme at a girl’s college in Faizabad district.