New Delhi, Oct 5 : BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in Delhi, Vijay Kumar Malhotra has said that unlike the Congress, his party would not indulge in media blitzkrieg by giving large advertisements in newspapers and TV channels in the run up to the November Assembly polls in the state, because it had learnt a lesson from the “India Shining” campaign it had unleashed before the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP’s central leadership had launched the “Indian Shining” campaign that supposedly ran into hundreds of crores of rupees, but fell flat after the Congress emerged victorious, though with a slender margin of seven MPs, and went ahead to form the UPA Government.

Lahore, Oct 5 : A Pakistani delegation will soon visit and examine the Baglihar Dam, built in Indian territory after years of opposition from Pakistan.

The delegation will be visiting the Dam on India’s invitation, said a TV report.

The Indian Indus Water Commission had been informed that a Pakistani delegation would visit India in the third or fourth week of October, the Daily Times quoted Pakistan Indus Water Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah as saying.

New Delhi, Oct 5 : A major fire gutted a footwear factory here this morning.

The fire which broke out around 4.25 A. M. engulfed the entire factory.

"We got a call about the fire. We have deployed 21 fire tenders and around 100 fire fighters are working here to extinguish the fire," said Atul Garg, Fire Officer.

According to the fire fighters, it took them roughly around four hours to bring the fire under control as, it became difficult for us to douse the fire as the rubber lying inside the factory had caught fire and it took longer to douse it.

Srinagar, India - An indefinite curfew was clamped across India-administered Kashmir on Sunday, one day ahead of a planned protest march called by separatist leaders.

Yasin Malik, leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, one of the main organizers of the march, was detained while other leaders have been put under house arrest.

The historic Lal Chowk in the heart of Jammu and Kashmir state capital Srinagar, where the marchers were to gather on Monday, has been barricaded with tin sheets and barbed wire.

All roads and lanes leading to the city centre were sealed.

Srinagar, Oct 5: An indefinite curfew has been imposed in the entire Kashmir valley to thwart a march by separatists to Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Monday.

Separatist leaders had planned a march to Lal Chowk to support their demand for right to self-determination.

In certain civilian areas, which are prone to stone-pelting incidents, mobile teams of the police and para-military forces were seen with their anti-riot gear on.

Islamabad, Oct 5: Iran has proposed a new clause in the Gas Sale Purchase Agreement of the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project, according to which it would reduce gas supply to Pakistan in case the supply to India was willfully disrupted (by Pakistan).

The Pakistan cabinet’s Sub-Committee on Gas Import Projects has been informed that Iran has proposed to include the new clause to the proposed, the Daily Times quoted official sources in Islamabad as saying.

If the supply of gas to India is wilfully disrupted by Pakistan, Iran shall have the right to reduce Pakistan’s gas supply in the same proportion, says the new clause, according to the sources.