IOC blaze leaves ghost towns
Bodies of three employees found; toll 8
Jaipur, October 31
Deserted streets, broken houses and fear writ large over their faces — this is the picture of about a dozen villages situated near the IOC depot, which has been caught in a major blaze since Thursday. And about a dozen villages on the Tonk Road, including Sitapura, Jirota, Sukhpuria, Tilawala, Kundanpura, Murlipura and Ramchandrapura, have virtually turned into “ghost towns”.

Thanks to Guv-MP slugfest, IT majors avoid Chandigarh
Chandigarh, October 31
The IT sector in Chandigarh managed to survive the impact of the global recession, but growth in this sector has been stalled thanks to the Chandigarh Land Controversy. With allegations flying thick and fast over the allotment of land to IT companies in the Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park (RGCTP), no new IT major is willing to invest in Chandigarh.

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I-T sleuths raid Koda’s properties
Ranchi/New Delhi, October 31
The Income Tax department today conducted countrywide searches on nearly 60 properties allegedly owned by former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda and claimed to have found evidence of “unaccounted” money transactions during his tenure.

Bush backs India on UNSC seat
New Delhi, October 31
During the eight years of his presidency, George W Bush was not willing to openly support India’s claim for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council (UNSC), a stand that was in line with the US Administration’s ambivalence on the issue.

  Cyprus too bats for Delhi

K’taka crisis deepens
BJP top leadership to meet rebels tomorrow
New Delhi, October 31
Flustered by the political storm in the first south Indian state where it came to power, BJP’s top leadership will tomorrow meet the party’s rebel faction from Karnataka to douse the raging fires against Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa.

Nepal Maoists’ stir likely to hit flights
The United Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (UCPN-M) will start their fortnight-long agitation on November 1 that among other things will also be stalling domestic and international flight operations.

Nepalese, Indian Maoists ‘in touch’

Patients or victims? — PART II Target-driven docs have little cure Chandigarh, October 31 A private doctor in Baddi calls up his medical college classmate serving in a private hospital in Mohali.