An allegedly drunk young woman who fled after the Honda Accord she was driving knocked down and killed a six-year-old boy and his older cousin Tuesday night has been arrested.

In a step that could open fresh communal acrimonies in Bihar’s politics, the RJD on Wednesday vowed not to allow the RSS to organise conferences in Bihar when then party comes to power in the state after the Assembly polls in November.

The controversial Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill roiled the political firmament once again with both Houses of Parliament facing repeated adjournments on Wednesday and the Left parties, along with the RJD and SP, accusing the Congress of striking a “deal” with the BJP. The parliamentary standing committee’s report on the bill was tabled among considerable din in both Houses on Wednesday.

It seems all is still not well between home minister P. Chidambaram and senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh, as the latter on Wednesday knocked the door of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to complain about the home ministry’s bid to amend the Arms Act alleging the move undermines the citizen’s right to keep legal weapons.

The agencies in the capital just do not seem to be able to reach a situation where removal of construction debris can be taken up in the right earnest. With rains disrupting street-scaping work on the roads and some of the important projects still being finished, construction debris continue to lie around. So far, out of 23 Games sites, where construction debris still remains, the Delhi government and the civic agencies have so far cleaned up only 12 sites.

A eight-year old girl was raped allegedly by a 37-year-old man, who has been arrested, in Niti Bagh area of Aman Vihar on Monday evening.
The police officials said that the accused, identified as Sudhir Kumar, who runs a tea shop in the area, lured the victim to his shop on the pretext of offering her coffee on Monday evening. “Kumar is her neighbour. Since he was known to the victim, she got into his shop at around 6 pm. The accused later downed the shutter and allegedly started misbehaving with her. When the victim resisted, Kumar raped her,” a police source said.

A four-year-old girl was found with her throat slit and her mother and younger brother were allegedly poisoned by unidentified assailants at their rented residence in Baljeet Nagar area of central Delhi on Monday evening.

Even as the Karnataka police finally arrests PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani in connection with the July 2008 Bengaluru bomb blasts, he made a last ditch effort to get pre-arrest bail from the Supreme Court, which expressed its inability to entertain his petition as it was rendered infructuous with his arrest.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that India will prefer to voluntarily surrender the grant it receives from United Kingdom if the British government decided on cutting it. He said that New Delhi has “made it clear” to the Cameron administration that “we will voluntarily surrender” aid should the UK decide to cut it.

The government on Tuesday announced that the DGCA has issued regulations to prevent fictitious booking by airlines and travel agents. “Under relevant regulations, violations due to fictitious bookings and abusive ticketing practice is a punishable offence ... maximum penalty of six months imprisonment of Rs 2 lakh fine or both can