New Delhi, Mar 25 : The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed the petition by jailed Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) candidate Mukhtar Ansari for contesting in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

A division bench comprising justices Ashok Bhusan and Arun Tandon held that Ansari cannot contest elections as he does not have voting rights.

Ansari won in Uttar Pradesh''s Mau constituency in the 2007 assembly elections as an Independent MLA and is now a BSP candidate from Varanasi.

New Delhi, Mar 25 : The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre and the State Government on a petition filed by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader P. Sangma challenging imposition of President''s rule in the state.

New Delhi, Mar 25 : Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPA) between India and Libya has become effective with the exchange of Instruments of Ratification (IsR) between them, here today.

Dr. Anup K. Pujari, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Government of India and Mohammed Saleh Ei-Saghier Milad, Director, International Legal and Treaties Department, Government of Libya exchanged the IsR at a ceremony presided over by L. M. Vas, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Finance.

With the exchange of IsR today, Libya becomes the 66th country with which our BIPA has become effective.

New Delhi, Mar 25 : Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday clarified that he had "no fight" with the Congress Party or with party President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

In an interview with NDTV, Lalu said, "I am not a quiet kind of person. I don''t attack people quietly. My advice to the Congress is that its people should continue to sleep comfortably... we (RJD and LJP) will win and form the UPA Government."

New Delhi - Unidentified gunmen shot dead the editor of a newspaper in India's north-eastern state of Assam, police said Wednesday.

Anil Majumdar, executive editor of the Assamese daily Aji, was shot seven times on his chest, outside his home in state capital Guwahati on Tuesday night.

"The attackers who came in a car fled from the spot soon after the killing. Majumdar was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead," police official GP Singh said.

New Delhi  - Alok Aggarwal, municipal vet and cow hunter, is in charge of a secret operation.

It is barely dawn, and Aggarwal already lights up his second cigarette of the day. One of his animal trucks is late, and the rest of his team is hanging around a New Delhi police station, bored.

That could draw unwanted attention: "The cow owners are well-connected and watch us closely. We cannot surprise them any longer."

For years the Indian capital's administration has been trying to keep down New Delhi's stray cow population, with Aggarwal on the front line.