Rohit Monserratte, son of Goa Education Minister who allegedly raped a German minor girl, was granted bail on Monday.

The Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force has arrested Quayamuddin Kapadia, prime accused in the Ahmedabad serial blasts on Monday.

He was nabbed by a joint opration between Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force and Ahmedabad crime branch in Bhopal.

Quayamudin was also a suspect in the Delhi blasts.

Quayamudin has confessed to his involvement in the Ahmedabad blasts, and has admitted that he is member of Indian Mujahideen said a top officer of Ahmedabad crime branch

The Mumbai police have stepped up security outside Congress MP Gurudas Kamats residence near Diamond Garden in Chembur following reports of a possible attack by Shiv Sainiks.

Kamat had recently criticized Sena chief Bal Thackeray for defending sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and the other accused in the Malegaon blast case. He demanded that govt. should take strict action needs to be taken against both Islamic and Hindu terror outfits.

He also said that, by defending Sadhvi in public Thackrey had endorsed terror and so he also needed to be arrested.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday released a list of 95 candidates for the Rajasthan assembly polls.

But in a surprise move 12 of the sitting MLAs didn’t figure in the list. Names of 24 MLAs repeated for this time also.

The list includes 15 women, 10 candidates from Scheduled Tribes and 19 from the Scheduled Castes.

A local court in Patiala allowed Bhangra-pop singer Daler Mehndi to use his passport for traveling abroad.

Mehndi was accused of human trafficking in September 2003. It was alleged that he was taking money to include people in his musical group and help them to migrate illegally to other countries.

Mehandi's lawyer on Monday told the court Mehndi had several stage performances in abroad and for that he requires his passport. He said that Mehndi had been attending all court hearings in Patiala. Mehendi was present in the Court on Monday.