The shooting of Kathryn Bigelow’s film on Osama bin Laden, depicting the Al Qaeda leader’s killing in Abbottabad last year, was stalled here Friday by VHP activists who objected to the hoisting of Pakistani flags.

The Assam forest department has set up a team of wildlife experts to look into the frequent incidents of leopard straying into the residential locality of Guwahati and claimed that the tiger population is increasing in Assam.

The Sarv Khap Mahapanchayat, a conglomerate of various khaps, on Thursday decided to extend the deadline of their agitation by three days to the state government for inclusion of jats in the Central OBC list.

The Madhya Pradesh police on Thursday claimed to have cracked the murder case of journalist Chandrika Rai and his family members by arresting the 31-year-old driver employed with the scribe.

Top Maoist functionary from Andhra Pradesh, Sadanala Ramakrishna, was arrested along with four other rebels from Kolkata in a successful joint operation by the Andhra Pradesh police and the special task force of the Kolkata police.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Wednesday administered oath of office to 21 parliamentary secretaries. In what has been seen as an attempt to ensure representation to all the caste, creed and community, Mr Gogoi retained four parliamentary secretaries of his last tenure, Bidya Singh Engleng, Jibontara Ghatowar, Sarat Saikia and Bibekananda Doloi. Besides 19 three-time and two-time MLAs, two first-timers — Rekibuddin Ahmed and Rakeswor Brahma — also found place in the list of 21 who were sworn in at Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra on Wednesday.

The CBI on Wednesday charged former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna and suspended Congress MLA Malkhan Singh with murder, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy in the Bhanwari Devi murder case.

The fact that ground water in Malwa, a southern area of Punjab, has traces of uranium in its ground water was established even in the past. A recent report presented by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) to the Punjab and Haryana high court has re-established this fact.

Naxals hounded out a tribal, took away his daughter and later brutally killed him by burying him alive in front of his wife for defaulting on a loan taken by him from a “janata sarkar”, or local government run by Maoists in panchayats, in a Chhattisgarh village.

A designated CBI court in Indore on Wednesday remanded Bhopal-based interior designer Zahida Parvez and another accused Shakib to CBI custody till March 6.