The additional sessions court in Margao on Monday extended former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco’s judicial custody by another day to Tuesday.
Mr Pacheco had surrendered before the court on Saturday after remaining underground for almost a month. After his bail plea was rejected, he had complained of chest pains and was admitted to the Hospicio Hospital in Margao on Saturday itself.

Have you ever found that you’ve been left out of your favourite sport even though you’ve spent weeks practicing because the coach or school sports captain doesn’t think you’ve got what it takes?

While Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikhsit on Monday said that the “Bharat Bandh” organised by the Opposition parties was a “flop show”, she also stated that the price rise is a “matter of concern” for the Delhi and the Central governments.

The Delhi high court on Monday said that there was no need for ailing former defence minister and Rajya Sabha member George Fernandes to change his place of residence and allowed his wife to take care of him till July 19.

The “Bharat Bandh” was supposed to be an effort on the part of the Opposition parties, particularly the BJP, to show that they care for the common man reeling under high price rise. However, as it turned out, the people on the road found it difficult to concur with the political parties’ views, caught as they were in some of the worst traffic

Anil Ambani group’s RNRL saw its stock price crash 27 per cent Monday, on expected lines. Meanwhile, Reliance Power, the company into which it is being merged, saw stock price go up 3.6 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

The city witnessed traffic snarls and chaos on Monday as the BJP, the Janata Dal (U) and the Left parties hit the streets with Bharat Bandh call in protest against price rise of petroleum products. Several leaders courted arrest and thousands of others were detained at various places. A large number of people found themselves stranded for well over a couple of hours, even as the police maintained a vigil in large numbers.

The finance secretary Ashok Chawla said on Monday that it will take sometime before food inflation falls to an acceptable range of around 5 per cent.
“Food inflation is going down. It will take some time before it really comes into a range which is acceptable to the government and which is good for the people,” said Mr Chawla.

A Delhi court on Monday sentenced six Uttar Pradesh policemen, including a superintendent of police, to two years in jail for illegally confining the relatives of a man and fabricating evidence against them for his act of marrying a girl against the wishes of her family.

The markets caught the Bharat bandh fever that was reflected in the low turnover of barely Rs 46,398 crore with the futures and options sector accounting for Rs 35,804 crore.