Raikia/Bhubaneshwar, Sept 29 : A dead body was found floating in a river near Raikia region of Orissa on Monday, just two days after communal clashes in riot hit Kandhamal District of the State.

According to reports, the body is allegedly of a Christian man who had gone missing after the communal clashes, which broke out on Friday.

Though no fresh incidents of violence have been reported from the Kandhamal, situation continues to be tense and security forces have been deployed to restore peace in the area.

New Delhi, Sept 29 : The President''s office has clarified that there has been no attack on the convoy of President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, during her visit to Chhattisgarh today, as reported by some sections of the media.

A Rashtrapati Bhawan Spokesperson on Monday said that the President was not traveling by road as she travelled from Chitrakut to Raipur by helicopter.

President Patil visited the famous Chitrakoot water fall in the Bastar District of Chhattisgarh today.

The President is on a two-day visit to the State which began on Sunday.

Kathmandu, Sept 29 : As a follow up of the decisions taken in Delhi during the recent visit to India of Prime Minister Prachanda, a high-level secretarial meeting of Nepal-India Joint Committee on Water Resource (JCWR) commenced here today.

The Indian delegation is headed by Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources Umesh N. Panjiyar and the Nepalese delegation by Water Resources Secretary Shanker Prasad Koirala.

The three-day meeting will deliberate upon hydro-power generation, irrigation, flood control and other water-related cooperation.

New Delhi - At least four policemen were killed Monday in a landmine blast triggered by suspected Maoist rebels in India's central state of Chhattisgarh during a visit by President Pratibha Patil to the region, news reports said. 

The incident occurred in a forested region in the Bastar district, 350 kilometres south of state capital Raipur, when a police team was on a patrol to secure the region for the visit of the president, the NDTV network said. 

Patil was visiting a waterfall in the picturesque Chitrakoot area, located some 30 kilometres away from the blast site, and later returned to Raipur, the report said. 

New Delhi, September 29 : The world knows of Radha as the consort of Krishna in childhood, playing on the banks of Jamuna at Gokul. But few are aware of her travails when her consort left her to become the charioteer of Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, and her longing to become the wife of the Lord remained unfulfilled.

Smita Prakash in a Bharatanatyam dance performance on Saturday (Sep. 27) narrated the story in an appealing manner at the Triveni Kala Sangam here. The programme ''Radha''s dilemma'' presented the innermost joys and sorrows of Radha, the girl known for her undying love for Krishna.

New Delhi, Sept 29 : The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Monday presented the family of slain Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma a sum of Rs. 19.98 lakhs.

LIC’s Senior Divisional Manager A K Sharma personally visited Sharma’s house in Dwarka and handed over cheques to his wife Maya Sharma, who was the nominee under all his insurance policies.

In a press release, the company said that the family wasn’t aware about his polices, but it came forward to settle the entire insured amount. 

Inspector Sharma died of excessive bleeding after leading an encounter in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar on September 19,