New Delhi, Oct 5 : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday said her remarks on TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan were blown out of proportion and that she was "enoromously horrified" by the incident.

Dikshit, who was widely criticized for her comments on the murder of the young TV journalist, told a private TV channel, "It horrified me enormously. I am a woman myself. I have three sisters; I have two grand daughters. I think what I said was really blown out of proportion."

New Delhi, Oct 5 : US President George W. Bush will sign the legislation on the Indo-US nuclear deal, into a law on October 8 at the President’s office, stated the White House.

Both the House of Representatives and Senate approved the Bill H R 7081, named after Democrat Howard Berman, last week.

On Saturday, the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, while addressing a joint press conference with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi, had said that President Bush would sign the legislation "very soon".

New Delhi, Oct. 5 : The recent bomb blasts in the national capital have created a fear factor among residents here. Low turnout of devotees at popular temples during the ongoing Navratra festival reflects an affected enthusiasm despite heavy security.

It appears there is a fear of the unknown back at everyone’s mind. And, this fear is keeping most of the people at home to avoid any untoward incident that crowded places may attract.

New Delhi, Oct 5 : The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has suggested a ban on organizations which are responsible for breakdown of communal harmony in its report submitted to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh a few days back.

The Commission, in its report on attacks on churches of Karnataka, said, "The state must keep a close watch on the activities of all such organisations that have contributed to the breakdown of communal harmony there."

"Remedial action, including a ban and prosecution should be initiated. Communal harmony should be maintained at all costs," it added.

New Delhi, Oct 5 : Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will visit India on Monday.

According to reports, he is likely to discuss the issues related to West Asia peace process with Indian leaders during his visit to New Delhi.

The Palestinian leader is also expected to apprise the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, and other leaders about the latest developments in the region and recent his talks with Israeli leaders.

New Delhi, Oct 5 : BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in Delhi, Vijay Kumar Malhotra has said that unlike the Congress, his party would not indulge in media blitzkrieg by giving large advertisements in newspapers and TV channels in the run up to the November Assembly polls in the state, because it had learnt a lesson from the “India Shining” campaign it had unleashed before the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP’s central leadership had launched the “Indian Shining” campaign that supposedly ran into hundreds of crores of rupees, but fell flat after the Congress emerged victorious, though with a slender margin of seven MPs, and went ahead to form the UPA Government.