Putting aside the rumors about the making of Sarkar Raj sequel, director Ram Gopal Varma, spoke about his two upcoming releases - Contract and Phoonk.

‘Contract’ introducing, Adhvik Mahajan, is based on the under world. However, it is not a trilogy of  Varma’s two earlier films Satya and Company which too were based on crime.  Contract also has Sakshi Gulati, Amruta Khanvilkar, Prasad Purandare, Zakir Hussain, among others. Praveen Nischol, Ajay and Sanjeev Bijli are producing the film.

Truckers have gone on a nation-wide strike, which started from midnight on Tuesday which has resulted in paralyzing the movement of goods on the road.

New Delhi - India's stock markets were trading weak on Thursday with the benchmark Sensex index shedding more than 600 points, a loss of 4.52 per cent.

Jammu, July 2 : Curfew was imposed in Samba District and Bhaderwah City of Jammu after 27 people were injured in group clashes and 13 people were injured in a grenade attack by militants on a rally today.

Unidentified militants hurled a grenade on 400 Bharatiya Janata Party activists and temple committee members returning to Laxmi Narain mandir in Bhaderwah City after a rally, sources said.

They said 13 people including a CRPF policeman were injured. Four of them who were in critical condition, were admitted to a local hospital.

Srinagar  - More than 50 people were injured - including 13 in a grenade attack by Muslim militants - in India-administered Kashmir on Wednesday during protests by Hindus angry over officials revoking a land transfer to a popular Hindu pilgrimage, police said.

Jammu, a Hindu majority region in the mostly Muslim state, has seen violent protests over the past fortnight, first by Muslims against the land transfer and later by Hindus angry that the order was withdrawn.

Srinagar, July 02 : Normal life resumed in the Kashmir valley today with the revocation of the forest land transfer to the Amarnath shrine board yesterday by the State Cabinet and the separatists calling off their nine days strike.

Normal business activities have resumed and educational institutions have been reopened.

Vehicular traffic and inter-district bus services, which were at a standstill during the agitation, were back on the roads as State and Central Government offices and banks resumed work today.