Congress general secretary Margaret Alva on Monday appeared before Disciplinary Action Committee of AICC. Defence Minister AK Antony is heading the committee.

Alva created a storm in Congress last week by alleging that party tickets were sold for up coming assembly polls.

During the meeting, Alva is believed to have told Antony the reasons behind her allegations, party sources said.

She was called by the disciplinary committee after her outburst.

The Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Archbishop, Raphael Cheenath, has said that he is facing a threat to his life after the killing of Swami Laxmananda Saraswati and violence that followed it.

"I received an anonymous letter from some Hindu youth organisation which threatened to eliminate me," Archbishop Cheenath said.

He met Chief Minister Naveen Pattanaik on Monday. He told that he had informed the CM about this threat.

The letter came to him in Last week of August.

Swami Laxamananda Saraswati's was brutally killed in Kandhamal district on August 23.

Baliguda court in Orissa Monday directed the nun, who was allegedly raped in Kandhamal, to appear for test identification parade on 19 November.

“The nun had sought one month’s time through her lawyer from the court citing that the she was ill and could not come,” assistant public prosecutor B. Loknath Dorai said.

“However, the court of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate Dola Gobinda Barik at Baliguda re-fixed the date to Nov 19 rejecting her plea for one month’s time and directed the nun to attend the legal procedure on scheduled date,” Dorai said.

Larsen & Toubro, India’s leading Technology, Engineering & Construction Company along with its Malaysian partner Scomi Engineering Bhd has secured an order worth Rs 2460 crore from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to implement the country’s first Monorail System in Mumbai. 
 
The consortium bagged the said contract by beating Reliance-Hitachi Consortium’s bid.  

Bharat Forge Limited (BFL), the second largest forging company in the World and part of Kalyani Group – a US $ 2.4 billion conglomerate, intends to setup a joint venture company with Europe-based Alstom Group, for manufacturing state-of-the-art supercritical power plant equipment in India.

IVRCL Infrastructure & Project Limited has informed that the company has bagged a lift irrigation project worth Rs 893 crore from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Irrigation & CAD Department.