Dhule, Maharashtra Oct 7: Communal violence in Dhule district of Maharashtra that has claimed five lives erupted again on Monday night forcing the administration to re-issue shoot-at-sight orders.

Guwahati, Oct 07: The situation in violence-hit areas of Assam remained calm on Tuesday with no overnight incidents reported.

Assam Government spokesman and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the situation is fast returning to normal with security forces able to quell the clashes although curfew and shoot-at-sight orders are continuing.

An estimated 8,000 police, army and paramilitary troops were deployed in Udalguri, Darrang, Baska, and Chirang district of Assam after violence broke out on Friday between tribal Bodos and Muslim migrant settlers.

The fundamentalist Hindu body, RSS has accused the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for helping US in the wake of current economic crisis in the country. 

The union government is planning to buy US Treasury bills worth Rs 56,000 crore for US economy bailout. The plans in this regard were prepared during the recent visit of the prime minister to the US under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF). 

The apex bank would issue bonds worth Rs 56,000 crore under LAF and invest the amount in US Treasury Bills.

With the Lok Sabha elections looming, political parties, in an attempt to have a substantial impact on its voters are strengthening themselves in whatever form they can. Alliance with the alike thinkers seems to be the in thing. Telengana Rasthra Samiti (TRS) and the CPM are likely to join as the TRS leader K. Chandrasekhar Rao and the left party leader Sitaram Yechury had a meeting together.

Dhule (Maharashtra), Oct 6 : The death toll in group clashes and poli

New Delhi, Oct. 6: The stage is being set for holding the next general elections in 2009.

Highly placed political sources said that the current Lok Sabha would be dissolved on October 27, to allow various political parties enough time to prepare their respective strategies for next year’s polls.

The Parliament is set to meet on October 17 at a time when the festive season will be in full swing. The special session will be a combination of both the monsoon and winter sessions and is scheduled to end on November 21.

Old timers do not recall any sitting of Parliament during the festival season. Usually, the winter session of Parliament begins in the third week of November.