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Lucknow, September 27: After petitioner Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, who had sought deferment of the Ayodhya verdict, another key party in the matter Nirmohi Akhara plans to move the Supreme Court for postponement of the judgment for three months to facilitate an out-of-court amicable settlement, a lawyer said Monday.

This was disclosed by Nirmohi Akhara counsel Ranjit Lal Verma here just before leaving for Delhi to move an application in the apex court.

“I am heading for Delhi to move an application before the apex court for postponing the verdict for three months,” Lal told IANS.

New Delhi, September 27: The national Capital is all set to get its on Eye on the lines of London Eye and Singapore Flyer.

The Baadshah of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan, will inaugurate the 45 meter high wheel ‘Delhi Eye’ on the banks of Yamuna.

The ‘Delhi Eye’ will be installed at an Amusement Park in Kalindi Kunj locality along the Delhi-Noida border.

The giant wheel is as tall as a 15-storey building. It will provide a snapshot of historical monuments located in Delhi.

New Delhi, September 27: TDP leader Chalasani Pandu was found dead under mysterious circumstances at his flat in Swapnika Perl apartment.

According to the police, Pandu was suspected to be murdered over some illegal land settlement issue. Commission row could not be ruled out behind his murder.

Chalasani Pandu, who fought 1999 election unsuccessfully from Vuyyuru Assembly, entered his flat with personal assistant Mahender Reddy.

Watchman of the Appartment claimed to see Reddy escaping from window in the midnight.

New Delhi, September 27: The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the Central Bureau of Investigation for moving slow on a case against the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati In the disproportionate assets case.

A bench of Justices B Sudershan Reddy and S S Nijjar bluntly told the CBI counsel that if it was not keen on pursuing the case, then the “petition must go”.

“What is this? Every time, you seek time or an adjournment.

Sometimes, you seek time for filing reply, then you say that you want to file a counter-affidavit then you say that you want to file an affidavit.”

New Delhi, September 27: The Sunni WAKF Board has filed an affidavit to the Supreme Court on the Ayodhya dispute, saying the matter cannot be sorted out through reconciliation.

Meanwhile, Union Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said Monday contesting parties in the Ayodhya title suit have to resolve the issue through discussions or accept the court verdict.

“The two contesting parties who filed the Ayodhya title suit have to resolve the matter among themselves through discussions.

Vadodra, September 27: The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) and Panigate police recovered two crude bombs near Sulaimani Chawl in Panigate in Vadodara city in the early hours of Sunday. Six such bombs were recovered from Yakutpura two days ago.

The DCB said the bombs were kept in a plastic bag in an open compound outside a residential apartment.

On a tip-off, a team of DCB and Panigate police officers began searching Sulaimani Chawl and the neighbouring areas around 3:30 am on Sunday morning.

Bhubaneswar, September 27: Suspected Maoists have abducted a village council chief in Orissa’s Koraput district, police said Monday.

Four suspected rebels kidnapped Chingu Jani, the sarpanch of Dumuripadar panchayat, when he was standing near a tea stall with other people in Mathiliput village Sunday, a police officer said.

They whisked him away into a waiting Tata Sumo and disappeared, the officer told IANS. The rebels had threatened him in the past as well, accusing him of carrying out anti-people activities, he said.

New Delhi, September 27: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family Varun Gandhi is all set to tie the nuptial knot this year and among the guests to be invited are his aunt Sonia Gandhi and cousin Rahul Gandhi, his mother Maneka Gandhi said Sunday.

The 30-year-old BJP national secretary and fiery orator will marry a Bengali girl, Yamini Roy, a fashion designer.

New Delhi, September 27: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Sunday said that it was khadi and the charkha that empowered the “humblest and simplest” people of India to wage a non-violent freedom struggle.

“If cloth empowers you then it is incumbent upon you to empower those who create the cloth by fulfilling their hopes, aspirations and demands,” she said while inaugurating an exhibition on textiles “Power Cloths of the Commonwealth”.

Agra, September 27: The flood situation in the Agra region took an alarming turn as the water level in Yamuna crossed the medium flood level of 152.09 metres Sunday evening, submerging most of the Taj Heritage Corridor and the waterworks, cutting off supplies to half of this Taj city

The river level is feared to touch 152.4 metres Monday morning, according to officials here.

More colonies and ghats were under water and the district authorities continued to persuade people to shift to safer areas.

New Delhi, September 27: The bid for the Commonwealth Games 2010 was spurred by an appeal made by students of 120 schools of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), says sports writer and filmmaker Sunil Yash Kalra.

“They prepared a memorandum, put their signatures and said, ‘Hey, we want the Commonwealth Games’,” Kalra told IANS. His book, “Road To Commonwealth Games 2010″ (A Penguin-India publication) – a dossier listing the history of the Games, its stakeholders and logistics – was released in the capital this week.