The Union government announced five rupees hike in petrol prices on Saturday. The hike will be financially detrimental for people in Punjab as they will have to burn a bigger hole in their pockets for petrol.

A fire broke out at a Calcutta State Transport Corporation depot on Sunday destroying important records and bills, with the Tranport Minister saying he suspected sabotage.

The Congress and the BJP are traditional rivals on Jalandhar (central) seat. But changed political equations this time are likely to present unprecedented results.  Delimitation exercise has added over 40, 000 new electorates to this constituency. There is a direct contest between BJP candidate Manoranjan Kalia and Rajendra Beri of Congress. Kalia, the sitting MLA, is promising the people to develop the area as a model city. Construction of railway over bridge and flyover during his tenure are other achievements which Kaliya recounts during campaigns to woo the voters.

Massive fire broke out at an Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot near Navi Mumbai on early Tuesday morning

The nine-day rescue operations in which 23 bodies were extricated and 62 people rescued from the rubble of a blanket factory that collapsed on April 15, came to an end on Tuesday.

Security at a plant of Indian Oil Corporation has been tightened to avert any possibility terror strike, police said on Friday. Units of paramilitary forces have also been deployed at the bottling plant of IOC here.

At least three blasts ripped through a Pakistan Army arms depot on the outskirts of the federal capital on Monday, injuring two persons, police officials said.

In a bid to curb the losses of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), employees will take up the charge of depot and contribute to making it a profit-making unit.

Rescue work continues on the third day to locate the possible survivors trapped in the debris of the three-storey factory building which collapsed midnight Sunday in Focal Point area of the city.

Intensifying a two-month siege against the rebel-held Misrata, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces rocketed the main fuel depot in the city on Sunday.