Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday ruled out general amnesty for members of outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) but offered safe passage to the elusive Ulfa rebels who desires to come home during Bihu festival.

A factory employee was shot at and robbed of `6 lakhs by four bikers at Jyoti Nagar in northeast Delhi on Monday morning.
The victim, identified as Kuldeep Singh, 32, who worked at a picture tube manufacturing unit in Wazirabad, had left his Amar Colony residence of Jyoti Nagar at around 9.30 am on Monday on a motorcycle, the police said.

The ruling DMK will hand out 10 lakh more free TV sets, and appear on them through the many channels it controls, ahead of Assembly polls in the state.
The state government on Sunday decided to procure the additional TV sets for the sixth phase of distribution of free televisions in the state. The decision to procure the additional TV sets was taken at a review meeting of a committee of legislators chaired by chief minister M. Karunanidhi.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has exposed chinks in the Congress armour in Madhya Pradesh by not only retaining the Mandsaur and Shajapur nagar palikas (municipalities), but also wresting the Sehore nagar palika from the Congress.

BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday asked Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi to clarify the charges of RTI activist Akhil Gogoi or step down.
Addressing a large public rally of the NDA against corruption, Mr Gadkari started his speech by referring to his meeting with RTI activist Akhil Gogoi.
He said, “Mr Gogoi had come to meet me and showed me the photographs of houses owned by the chief minister’s family members in the US.”

The BJP national executive meeting, which concluded here on Sunday, resolved to intensify fight against corruption and price rise emerging as the twin challenges for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Three persons were injured in separate fire incidents in the capital in the last 24 hours. Three labourers suffered minor injuries when a fire broke out in a shoe factory at Ashok Vihar in northwest Delhi on Sunday morning.

A 22-year-old student allegedly committed suicide at his Mandawali residence on Saturday evening. The deceased, identified as Mani Shankar, a resident of Sonebhadra district in Uttar Pradesh, was pursuing a diploma course in computer networking from a private institute.

Rohini Court additional sessions judge (ASJ) Dr Kamini Lau has directed the Haryana government to move 100 inmates of Hisar jail to a prison here following the transfer of their trial in a case related to attack on dalits allegedly by upper caste Hindus at Mirchpur village in April last year.

The chilling weather has at least been good for the excise department of the Delhi government, as the city recorded highest sales of liquor in the last month. A record sales of liquor worth `188 crores has been reported in the city in the month of December.