Two persons have been arrested by the special cell of Delhi police for allegedly manufacturing and supplying illegal guns. The police seized material to make more than 100 countrymade revolvers.

The elder son in the sibling abuse case involving a school van driver reported from Prasad Nagar in September has gone missing since Friday afternoon. The mother of victim suspects the involvement of one of the accused, who was yet to be arrested, in her son’s disappearance.

A 16-year-old girl, who had gone missing on Thursday, was found murdered in a flat at Dwarka on Saturday morning. The police has arrested a 28-year-old man, who has reportedly confessed to having murdered her for resisting his attempt to rape her. The police said that the man lured her to a flat he had rented when she was returning from a coaching institute on Thursday.

All-rounder Irfan Pathan is the notable absentee in India’s 30-man preliminary squad for next year’s World Cup.
The squad, announced by the BCCI’s chief selection committee led by Kris Srikkanth on Saturday, is on expected lines with recent performances being given additional weightage.

Undaunted by the controversy over his Karkare remarks, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Saturday launched a frontal attack on the RSS and the BJP by claiming that there was need for a “deeper” probe into the killing of RSS activist Sunil Joshi, who was linked to the Ajmer dargah blast of 2007. He also alleged that Sunil Joshi was murdered by his colleagues as he knew “too much” about the outfit’s activities.

The CPI(M) on Saturday said the US official cables released by WikiLeaks have exposed the extent of US interference in India’s domestic political affairs and the “complicity” of the Manmohan Singh go-vernment in furthering Am-erican “imperialist” interests. “As the WikiLeaks ca-bles from around the world have shown, the US

A Pakistan high commission official in New Delhi had praised India for acting responsibly and maturely in the aftermath of the 26 November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, according to the US government cables released by WikiLeaks.

BJP leader and former Union telecommunication minister Arun Shourie on Saturday declared that he was prepared to answer CBI’s queries on the 2G spectrum allocation during his tenure and alleged that the policy was “twisted” to benefit those close to former union telecommunication minister A. Raja.

A day after the two NCP MLAs in the coalition Goa Cabinet refused to resign after the high command asked them to do so, the NCP sent down party general secretary Mr Prakash Binsale to Goa to settle the issue.

Former BJP leader Uma Bharti said on Saturday that she was ready to play political guru to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi. “Instead of taking notes from Digvijay Singh, Rahul Gandhi should take lessons from me. He should stop making irresponsible statements against the RSS merely with the intentions of getting Muslim support,” Ms