New Delhi, Mar. 26 (ANI): A casual glance through the Congress Party’s latest manifesto indicates that it has placed on itself a huge and onerous task of fulfilling 29 promises as part of its nation-building endeavour between 2009 and 2014, should it emerge victorious in this year’s general elections.

The 21-page manifesto starts off with a pledge to ensure a “life of security, dignity and prosperity” for every Indian citizen, and claims “we have delivered on promises made in our manifesto of 2004 in a very substantial measure”.

New Delhi, Mar 26 : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will organise a one-day conference on cyber crime here today.

Organized in association with Council of Europe, the conference will hold deliberations on cyber crime threats and trends, International cooperation against cyber crime, and Law enforcement.

The meeting aims to enhance the knowledge of law enforcement agencies in fighting cyber crime and improving international police cooperation against such crime.

New Delhi, March 26 : Twenty years after being accidentally swallowed by a kung fu master during a training session, a chopstick has finally been removed.

The 21-cm stick was ingested by Wing Ma during an exercise.

Ma has revealed that he was conditioning his body to take pain when the accident occurred, Metro reports.

According to the China Daily, the 40-year-old was rid of the chopstick at a hospital in eastern Wuhan, China.

New Delhi, Mar 25 : The country is going to witness record production of wheat consecutively for the second year with output estimated to surpass 78 million tonnes.

Last year, 78.57 million tonnes of wheat was produced, which was the highest ever in the history of India.

New Delhi - India's benchmark Sensex index rallied for the third-straight day Wednesday, rising 2.08 per cent.

The 30-share sensitive index of the Bombay Stock Exchange, which touched an intraday high of 9,706.47, ended up 196.86 points at 9,667.9.

The Sensex has gained more than 700 points since Monday when it opened at 8,960.

Brokers said the bourse was buoyed by heavy buying of shares in Reliance Industries and other blue-chip realty companies.

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.