India

NEW DELHI - Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Prithviraj Chavan will on Monday inaugurate a two-day workshop on Designing and Implementing Sevottam Compliant Citizen's Charter and Grievance Redressal Mechanism.

NEW DELHI - Hundreds of cyclists took part in a cyclothon here on Sunday, as a sort of 'curtain-raiser' for the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

Ayodhya (U.P.), - A wild boar entered a village in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya district and attacked its residents.

WARANGAL - A Maoist couple and another rebel surrendered here on Saturday. They were wanted in connection with the assassination of the Andhra Pradesh Home Minister A. Madhava Reddy and police officer Umesh Chandra. They are key witnesses in the attack on then Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.They surrendered before Superintendent of Police (Rural), Shahnawaz Qasim.

ISLAMABAD - America must stop "scaring" foreign volunteers working to aid the flood victims in Pakistan by raising the possibility of terrorist attacks on them, an editorial in a Pakistani newspaper said Sunday.