New Delhi, Sept 29 : The President''s office has clarified that there has been no attack on the convoy of President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, during her visit to Chhattisgarh today, as reported by some sections of the media.

A Rashtrapati Bhawan Spokesperson on Monday said that the President was not traveling by road as she travelled from Chitrakut to Raipur by helicopter.

President Patil visited the famous Chitrakoot water fall in the Bastar District of Chhattisgarh today.

The President is on a two-day visit to the State which began on Sunday.

New Delhi, September 29 : The world knows of Radha as the consort of Krishna in childhood, playing on the banks of Jamuna at Gokul. But few are aware of her travails when her consort left her to become the charioteer of Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, and her longing to become the wife of the Lord remained unfulfilled.

Smita Prakash in a Bharatanatyam dance performance on Saturday (Sep. 27) narrated the story in an appealing manner at the Triveni Kala Sangam here. The programme ''Radha''s dilemma'' presented the innermost joys and sorrows of Radha, the girl known for her undying love for Krishna.

New Delhi, Sept 29 : The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Monday presented the family of slain Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma a sum of Rs. 19.98 lakhs.

LIC’s Senior Divisional Manager A K Sharma personally visited Sharma’s house in Dwarka and handed over cheques to his wife Maya Sharma, who was the nominee under all his insurance policies.

In a press release, the company said that the family wasn’t aware about his polices, but it came forward to settle the entire insured amount. 

Inspector Sharma died of excessive bleeding after leading an encounter in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar on September 19, 

New Delhi  - At least eight people, including six children, were killed in an explosion in a village in eastern India as people were making firecrackers ahead of a festival, news reports said Monday.

Two villagers were injured in Sunday's explosion in Balasore district, 230 kilometres north of Orissa's state capital, Bhubaneshwar, the PTI news agency reported.

The blast occurred when people were illegally making firecrackers in a house and some of them caught fire, police told The Statesman daily.

New Delhi  - Indian equities extended their losses from last week as the benchmark Sensex fell more than 3 per cent Monday, tracking weakness in global markets despite an agreement on a 700-billion-dollar bailout plan for US financial institutions.

The 30-share-sensitive index fell below 13,000 and was trading at 12,657.76 at 12:30 pm (0700 GMT), down 444.42 points, or 3.39 per cent.

Similarly, the broader S&P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange was trading at 3,863 for a midday loss of 3.07 per cent.

New Delhi, Sep 28 : Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor today said that there are no differences between Government of India and armed forces over the anomalies in the Sixth Pay Commission report.

“I want to clarify that talks of differences between armed forces and Indian Government is not correct and has been played up incorrectly,” the Army Chief said.

General Kapoor said that “we have made our recommendations and government has set up a committee and let see how the deliberations go.”