The police on Tuesday arrested seven persons on charge of involving in gambling in a public place near River Dale at Kadekar of Jappinamogaru village on the outskirts of the city.

Maoists blew up railway tracks in Giridih district of Jharkhand, paralysing train movement for over five hours, a railway official said Tuesday.

As expected MJ Akbar has refuted all allegations against him and said he will not resign from his post of union minister. For the moment even Congress is set aside the Rafael scandal and is hell bent upon seeking Akbar's resignation. One cannot rule of the chances of Modi seeking Akbar's resignation to indicate that he cares for the women of India. MJ Akbar is not great asset to BJP. He does not even represent the party with its full values and ideals. He has always been an opportunist who has remained in power since a long time across governments. He has used the same strategy to bag a plum position in BJP trading whatever little loyalty he can claim to have. He has nothing to lose except for that post.

In the Rafale jet deal, documents featured in a French aviation blog may fuel more controversy amid opposition allegations that France snagged the Rs. 59,000 crore deal as a trade-off for aeronautics major Dassault tying up with Anil Ambani's company.

At least 15 people were Tuesday injured when a bus fell into a canal at Haripal in Hooghly district, the police said.

Another person of Sajipanadu who was admitted to a hospital following suspected H1N1 virus died in the hospital on Tuesday morning. With the death of the woman, the disease claimed mother and her daughter of the same family within six days. Now the family and the local people are under panic.

India's Suraj Panwar clinched a silver in men's 5000m race walk event in the ongoing Youth Olympic Games to open the country's medal account in athletics here.

Two Goa Congress legislators Dayanand Sopte and Subhash Shirodkar Monday midnight left for Delhi amidst speculations that they may join the BJP.