Senior leaders of the RSS and the BJP went into a huddle in Patna on Saturday to give final shape to the electoral strategy of the saffron party for the Bihar Assembly elections. The RSS leaders have also reportedly delivered their message to the state BJP leaders on the possible fallout of the upcoming September 24 Ayodhya verdict of the Allahabad high court and have asked the party leaders to go to the polls without being apologetic about the issue of the “Hindutva”.

The ruling JD(U) and BJP are likely to initiate their talks on swapping of seats for the Bihar Assembly elections in the coming week. Senior JD(U) leaders have stated that the talks would be concluded without any hiccup much before nominations are filed for the first phase of the elections in the state.

The police has arrested an electrical engineer for allegedly stealing ATM-cum-debit cards which he later used to shop with his girlfriend at a south Delhi market.
A senior police official said, the accused, Ramji Prabhakar, who was working with a leading mobile phone operator, had allegedly devised a method of hoodwinking innocent shoppers.

If a company allegedly indulges in wrongful deeds then not only its officials but the company itself can also be prosecuted on charges of criminal conspiracy, the Delhi high court has said.

One more person died of dengue taking the toll to five this season. The total number of dengue cases in the city reached 1,716 as 64 fresh cases were reported on Saturday.

Within four hours after receiving a missing complaint case, the police traced a teenager and his friend who allegedly fled from their house with a sum of `2 lakhs.
The incident was reported from Rohini area on Thursday evening when 15-year-old Deepak, (name changed) a Class 10 student, was reported missing from the Lancer Convent Public School.

With water in the Yamuna flowing more than a metre above the danger mark and reaching quite close to the Commonwealth Games Village, the civic authorities and members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are now waiting for the water to recede to begin effective mosquito breeding control measures at the site.

Various low-lying areas in east and north Delhi were flooded after the Yamuna swelled over the danger mark by about two metres on Saturday evening, though the officials maintained that the river would start receding from Saturday night. More than 2,000 people were evacuated as the Yamuna rose to 206.78 metres on Saturday

Dismissing the appeal of extradited mafia don Abu Salem, the Supreme Court on Friday made it clear that the accused can be tried for serious offences, including those entailing murder charges, even though the Portugal government had laid a pre-condition for his extradition: that he would not be awarded the death penalty.

The Indian Institutes of Technology may soon offer courses in medicine. The prestigious institutes have also been allowed to employ foreign nationals in permanent faculty positions and open post-graduate courses to foreign students.