As the death of a ruling National Conference (NC) worker allegedly in police custody is snowballing into a major political crisis for Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, pandemonium broke out in the state Assembly on Monday over an adjournment motion moved by the Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to discuss the incident.

The total number of people affected by dengue in the city has risen to 283, with 72 people testing positive for the mosquito-borne disease in the past one week here.

An unidentified elderly woman ran away with `1.50 lakh cash and an expensive mobile phone of the daughter of a Rajya Sabha MP from an exhibition booth at a five-star hotel here.

The house of a Congress MP in Lutyen’s Delhi was broken into and the bathroom fittings were stolen. The incident was reported on October 1 morning at the residence of Congress MP Manik Rao Gavit at 38, GRG Road. Mr Gavit is a Lok Sabha MP from the Nandurbar constituency in Maharashtra and he was out of station at the time of the incident.

Opposing the bail pleas of senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni and two BJP ex-MPs, the Delhi police on Saturday said every accused arrested in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam claims to be a whistle-blower.

Nearly two decades after the incident, a sessions court here on Thursday sentenced all the 215 men of the police and forest and revenue departments to jail terms ranging from one to 10 years for assault and rape of tribals during a raid targeting sandalwood smuggling in remote Vachathi village in Dharmapuri district.

Independent MLA Sheikh Abdur Rashid and several of his supporters were injured in a clash with the police outside the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, now in session here, on Thursday. They were protesting against the stalling of the resolution in the House seeking clemency for Parliament attack convict Mohammed Afzal Guru.

Pakistan on Thursday said it would not accept any “dictation” from the United States regarding operations against the Haqqani network in the tribal North Waziristan Agency.

The CBI, which said its probe into Reliance Telecomm was “continuing”, added that it was investigating how there could be such a huge gap in the sale of shares of a company in a relatively close period, what was the game plan behind this, and who was the “actual beneficiary” as the equity was off-loaded before

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is likely to skip the BJP’s two-day national executive, beginning Friday, in the national capital. Though the BJP refused to confirm whether or not Mr Modi would attend the meet, sources disclosed that Mr Modi is unlikely to attend the meeting because of “Navratra”. A section within the party feels Mr Modi’s absence will fuel speculation of growing differences with senior leader L.K. Advani.