`RTI on Wheels', a state-of-the-art mobile van has completed one year of its successful functioning. It was launched last year by the Gujarat State Information Commission, Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration (SPIPA) and Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pahel (MAGP).

`RTI on Wheels' was specifically designed to spread awareness about the Right to Information (RTI) in far-flung areas. The van has various facilities like audio visual aids and internet for organizing video shows and discussions. It also helped people to draft applications, appeals and complaints.

RTI on wheels' has spread among 80,000 people in 450 villages and 13 cities in last one year.

New Delhi, Mar 19: Bharatiya Janashakti Party leader Uma Bharti on Thursday reiterated support to Bharatiya Janata Party''s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani.

"I have met Advani for the third time now. I have already met him twice earlier. I told him that I would offer all support to him that would be required for him to become the Prime Minister. But let me clarify once again that I don''t wish to join BJP, I am happy with my party and I am proud of it. I have not been able to fight elections due to lack of funds," said Bharti.

New Delhi, Mar 19: Sales of luxury clothes have gone down as people have started feeling the pinch of the global economic downturn, but designers at the ongoing Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, sounded optimistic.

Designers are refusing to rein in their creativity; they are using less expensive materials to construct this year''s must-haves.

New Delhi, Mar 19: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief Leon Panetta met Home Minister P Chidambaram and discussed the security situation in South Asia.

According to sources, issues like impact of the global economic crisis on the internal security of the countries and growing militancy in the subcontinent were discussed during the meeting.

The two sides expressed satisfaction about the close cooperation between India and the US during the Mumbai terror attacks, sources said.

Dispur, Mar 19: A powerful bomb exploded on the railway track between the Diphu and Daldoli Railway Stations in Assam''s Karbi Anglong District at around 1 a. m. on Thursday.

Passengers miraculously escaped unharmed.

The explosion took place five kilometers from Diphu Railway Station, damaging a significant portion of the railway track.

A track inspector from the Lumding Railway Division rushed to the spot and found another bomb planted there.

The bomb squad was summoned to defuse the bomb.

New Delhi/Patna/Lucknow/Chennai, Mar 19: Key allies of the Congress party are continuing with their hectic negotiations to narrow down their differences over seat-sharing ahead of general elections.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president and Railway Minister Lalu Yadav, a key player in Bihar, underplayed the rift with the Congress.

"Less seats given, more seats given, internal differences, all these are immaterial. The UPA will form the Central Government. We have nothing to do with the Third Front. And Mulayam Singh is also with me. Mulayam Singh, Ram Vilas Paswan and Lalu Prasad, we will together be in the UPA Government formation," said Lalu.