Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday rejected a Breach of Privilege notice against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The notice on Breach of privilege was given on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal.

But after that the house witnessed a war of words broke out between speaker and two members of Left parties. And Chatterjee left the proceeding in the mid way of the discussion all of a sudden. The two left leaders include CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta and CPI (M) leader Basudev Acharya.

Railway Minister Lalu Yadav requested Chatterjee not to leave the house, but upset Chatterjee left the house and said that the Left leaders were deliberately making allegations against the Chair.

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New Delhi, Oct 23 : Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said that the rate of conviction in cases investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been consistently above 65 per cent.

Chavan in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha said CBI enjoys the thrust and confidence of public, judiciary and the Government and has been playing pivotal role in investigation of important cases.

The Constitutional Courts have in the last three years entrusted 512 cases for investigation, he added.

New Delhi, Oct 23 : BJP''s prime ministerial candidate and Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, LK Advani, has initiated Track-II diplomacy with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajpaksa to save the lives of ethnic Tamils living in the island country.

Advani wants Tamils to be safe in Sri Lanka and also wants Rajpaksa to be pragmatic and fully understand Indian concerns over the issue, politicsparty. com reported.

New Delhi, Oct. 23 : Activists of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) today demonstrated before the Rail Bhawan here to voice concern against the frequent killing of elephants due to speeding trains along the tracks in or skirting forest areas.

PETA activists during their protest also enacted an accident in which ‘Bholu’, an elephant is fatally knocked down by a ''locomotive''. It was to highlight the pain of elephants being routinely killed by speeding trains in the forest areas, particularly in Assam and West Bengal.

Activists alleged that the Indian Railways has been the reason for the death of several Bholus in real life and the government should ensure preventive steps to protect the wild elephants.

New Delhi, Oct 23 : Riding on back of lower prices of food and non-food items inflation fell to 11.07 per cent for the week ended October 11, from 11.44 per cent a week ago.

The prices of fruits and vegetables and eggs declined during the week. And in the non-food category, sunflower and raw cotton became cheaper.

On account of lower prices of furnace oil the index of fuel group too declined marginally by 0.1 per cent.

During the week, the prices of other goods that declined were imported edible oil, oilcakes, polyester, staple fibre and ingots of lead and zinc.