BJD MLA from Keonjhar Sadar Subarna Naik was on Monday arrested for assaulting a female home guard on duty.
Mr Nayak was forwarded to jail after his bail petition was rejected by the local court.

There couldn’t be a bigger irony for Uma Bharti than this.
The two men she detested and despised and even threatened to pull out of campaigning because of them, are proving to be the biggest assets in her campaign for the Charkhari seat in Mahoba district.

Political parties are known to go overboard with their poll promises, an instance of which could be seen on Monday in Congress’ Goa manifesto, which promised to build a bridge in a village that has no river.

Free water and electricity to poorer sections of the society are two of the key promises made by the Congress in its poll manifesto, released on Monday, ahead of the March 3 Assembly elections in Goa. The manifesto was released here by senior Congress leader Oscar Fernandes and several other dignitaries, including CWC member Luizinho Faleiro, chief minister Digambar Kamat and other party officials.

Union petroleum minister S. Jaipal Reddy said on Monday that a massive underground strategic oil storage facility was being built in the port city of Visakhapatnam to help India tide over international crises that may affect fuel supplies to this country. It will be ready in four months, the minister said.

The first class chief judicial magistrate of Karuna-gapally, K.P. Joy, on Monday remanded Italian Marines Latorre Massimi-liano and Salvatore Giro-ne, who fired and killed two fishermen last Wedn-esday, to judicial custody till March 5. They will be in police custody for the first three days of the 14-day remand period for investigation purposes.

The arrest of two Italian Navy Marines on Sunday for allegedly shooting dead two Indian fishermen who they mistook for pirates appeared to be escalating into a diplomatic row with Italy reiterating on Mond-ay that it should be allo-wed to deal with the case.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram has asked the state government to intensify counter-insurgency operations against anti-talk faction of Ulfa and said that home ministry would consider the options of holding talks with anti-talk faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland only if they send a formal letter to the home ministry expressing their willingness for resolving the issue through talks.

The Umaria district police, along with a team of special task force (STF) and the CID, is probing the gruesome murder of Chandraika Rai, a newspaper distributor-cum-reporter, his wife Durga Rai and their two grown-up children — a son and a daughter — during the intervening night of February 17-18.

Rail and road traffic was affected in parts of Haryana for the second day, mainly around Hisar, as the All- India Jat Arakshan Samiti, demanding inclusion of the jat community in the central OBC list, failed to reach any solution in their talks with the administration. The Jat Arakshan Samiti has extended their deadline given to the government by 24 hours on Monday evening, after which they are threatening to intensify their agitation.