The state CID on Tuesday arrested five Maoists — Madhusudan Mandal, 44, Sachin Ghoshal, 42, Rajesh Mandal, 19, Siddhartha Mandal, 36, and Sanjay Mandal, 42 — from South 24 Parganas. While Madhusudan, alias Narayan, had spearheaded the Nandigram movement in 2007 from behind the scenes, Sachin is a senior member of the Maoist technical wing. They have been booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

Leading public sector banks such as the State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda took the base rate plunge on Tuesday.
The lenders have announced base rates of 7.5-8 per cent per annum. Under the new norms set by the Reserve Bank, this is the lowest rate at which banks will lend.
The new rates will replace the earlier prime lending rate (PLR), which allowed corporates to get loans at extremely low levels. Under the base rate regime, retail and small borrowers will not be subsidizing large borrowers any longer.
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The MCD is planning to take tough action on the property tax defaulters. It is also planning to simplify the property tax return form for the benefit of the payers.
Following a meeting with senior officials of the assessment and collection department, the chairman of the property tax committee, Ved Prakash Gupta, told reporters h

The state CID on Tuesday arrested five Maoists — Madhusudan Mandal, 44, Sachin Ghoshal, 42, Rajesh Mandal, 19, Siddhartha Mandal, 36, and Sanjay Mandal, 42 — from South 24 Parganas. While Madhusudan, alias Narayan, had spearheaded the Nandigram movement in 2007 from behind the scenes, Sachin is a senior member of the Maoist technical wing. They have been booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

The Union commerce and industry minister, Mr Anand Sharma, who is leading a top business delegation on an official visit to the UK, has raised the issue of proposed cap on immigration from non-European Union countries with the newly-elected Tory-LibDem coalition government.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday launched the Jan Ahaar Yojana to ensure full nutritious meal twice a day to hundreds of persons at Rs 15 per meal across the city from seven Jan Ahaar Centres. Ms Dikshit inaugurated a Jan Ahaar Centre at the Asaf Ali Road.

Members of a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Culture and Tourism on Tuesday expressed serious concern over shortcomings in aviation infrastructure, recent incidents where aircraft have not followed the prescribed flight path as well as manpower shortages that could have an impact on aviation safety in the country. The concern was expressed at a meeting of the committee in the capital on Tuesday afternoon.

On a day the capital should have experienced its first monsoon showers of the season, it witnessed high levels of heat and humidity, thanks to the heat wave conditions existing over Rajasthan and the slow progress of monsoon. Though the power demand relatively did not go much high, there were long powercuts in South Delhi areas, including Green Park.

The sessions court granted protection to Gautam Vora, a stockbroker, whose named cropped up after supermodel Viveka Babajee committed suicide on Friday. Suspecting that he would be arrested, Mr Vora, moved an anticipatory bail application (ABA) before the sessions court on Monday. However after recording the statements

A 32-year-old man has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing a man in a bid to get himself declared dead. Facing several criminal cases in Punjab and Haryana and wanting to get rid of them, he killed a man to fake his own death.