Freak accident kills man, girlfriend survives

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23-year-old engineer was found dead and a teenaged girl, with whom he had a relationship, unconscious in a car in Outer Delhi early this morning, police said.

Dinesh Gupta and the 17-year-old girl got trapped inside the car with its AC on after the vehicle ran out of petrol in Punjabi
Colony of Narela at around 12.30 am, a senior police official said.

"They could not open the door before carbon dioxide got filled inside the car. After sometime Gupta managed to open the doors. In a semi conscious state he came out, but fell down resulting in his death," the official said.

The girl, a student, survived the incident as Gupta opened the doors and oxygen supply was restored, he said. She is recuperating in a hospital.

Both are residents of Punjabi Colony in Narela. Gupta works as a junior engineer in Sonepat-based T D India company.

His body has been sent for post-mortem.

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Indian Maoists in fierce battle

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fierce gun battle between Maoist insurgents and security forces has taken place in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police say.

They say that at least seven Maoists were killed in the fight, and one paramilitary soldier.

The clashes happened during an operation to remove more than 100 insurgents from a forest.

Thousands of people have died in the Maoist insurgency since it began in the 1960s as a backlash against poverty.

Chhattisgarh police chief RK Vij told the AFP news agency that more casualties were likely after an intense battle in the jungles of Singamadagu district, 500km (300 miles) south of the capital Raipur.


Parallel administration

"Nine Maoists and an assistant commandant have died and five troopers are missing," he told AFP.
Some unconfirmed reports say that up to 30 Maoists were killed and 10 soldiers were missing.

Security officials in Raipur told AFP that up to 250 personnel from the police, paramilitary and commando units were involved in attacking a rebel arms factory in the Singamadagu offensive.

The rebels are believed to have established a parallel administration in the area and telephone communications there are virtually non-existent.


Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram told police chiefs this week that the guerrillas were growing stronger and refining their tactics in the forests of Chhattisgarh and had even acquired advanced military hardware.

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday also warned that his country was losing the battle against Maoist rebels.

The rebels - who operate operate in 182 districts in India - say they are fighting for the rights of the poor. They control large swathes of territory across central India.

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Three candidates file nomination for Arunachal assembly polls

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hree candidates filed their papers today on the first day of filing of nominations for elections to the 60-member Arunachal Pradesh assembly on October 13.

While two NCP candidates filed nominations for Changlang(North) and Sagalee constituencies, one independent candidate submitted his papers for Itanagar seat.

Over 7 lakh voters are eligible to cast their vote.

While ruling Congress has decided to contest all the seats and released the names of 56 candidates so far, NCP has announced candidates for 30 seats and BJP for 17.

The NCP and BJP had earlier decided to contest 40 seats each.

With the ruling Congress having dropped a dozen of its sitting MLAs, NCP and BJP claimed many Congressmen were in touch with them seeking their tickets.

“Both the parties are considering their cases and hence the delay in releasing their final lists, which are expected to be out in a day or two,” their leaders claimed.

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Militants target Manipur governor house

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MPHAL: Tension gripped the Governor's House here on Friday after Kangleipak Communist Party, Military Council, (KCP-MC), rebels tried to trigger
a car-bomb explosion inside the high-security complex.

The rebels, who came in two cars, drove into the complex in a Maruti 800 fitted with bombs, sources said. They fled in the other vehicle parked outside. The car that was fitted with the bombs was detected around 1.30 pm. Raj Bhavan sources said the attackers, masquerading as social activists, managed to get the cars inside the complex on the plea of submitting a memorandum to the Governor.

Gurbachand Jagat was in office when the incident took place. The vehicle was parked a few metres away from his room, they added.

A statement issued by KCP-MC secretary (military affairs) Lanheiba Meitei said the operation was carried out by cadres of the fifth unit of Lanjaba Tangol (special demo team). The outfit accused the Governor of being the mastermind of state terrorism.

Though security guards didn't allow journalists to move inside the Raj Bhawan, some employees said two pipe-like bombs were fitted to the car.

Senior superintendent of police (Imphal West) L Kailun said the vehicle had explosives stuffed at the back. The explosives included three grenades, iron nails, bolts and two mobile handsets.

Manipur Police's bomb experts retrieved the explosives and took them to the state forensic laboratory at Pangei in greater Imphal for study, official sources said. A senior police officer said an FIR has been registered and investigation was on. In December last year, rebels lobbed two grenades at the Raj Bhavan.

Attacks on residences of VVIPs are not uncommon in Manipur. In the last two years, chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh's office-cum-bungalow had been attacked twice by militants. In March 2007, underground activists triggered a grenade explosion inside the Manipur Assembly complex. The Babupara VIP colony, which is close to the chief minister's bungalow, has also come under bomb attack.

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