Bhubaneswar, May 19 (ANI): India on Tuesday successfully tested the nuclear capable Agni-II missile at Wheelers Island near Balasore in Orissa.

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Tuesday said verdict 2009 is both “exhilarating and sobering” and that the mandate comes with “onerous responsibilities.”

“We have won an election but also undertaken a serious obligation,” she said while addressing the newly elected MPs at a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) here.

Raipur, May 19 (IANS) A sacked security guard of Lafarge Cement was arrested near here for stabbing the unit vice president for removing him from his job, police said Tuesday.

Prem Kumar Verma, who used to work as a security guard with the company, Monday stormed into the chamber of Kirandeep Patil, posted as vice-president of the unit at Baloda Bazar in Raipur district, and stabbed him with sharp edged weapon, District Superintendent of Police Amit Kumar told reporters.

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Australian government has announced ten merit-based scholarships for students from Asia and Indian scholars are being considered “deserving” candidates.

Indian students would be the “best and deserving candidates” for the Prime Minister’s Australia Asian Endeavour awards announced recently, according to the Australian High Commissioner to India, John McCarthy.

Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) Auto major Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) Tuesday said its employees have withdrawn their tools-down strike at its plant near Maharashtra’s Nashik town.

The workers went on strike demanding pay revision and reinstatement of a sacked labour leader.

Agartala, May 19 (IANS) The Congress will apply the “Bengal model and strategies” in Tripura to oust the Left Front government from this northeastern state, party leaders said here Tuesday.

“Due to our organisational weakness, we failed to enlighten the people about the misrule, corruption, terrorism and double standards of the ruling Left Front in Tripura and hence party candidates have suffered a defeat in the Lok Sabha polls,” the state’s leader of opposition Ratan Lal Nath told reporters.

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): As the television studios discussed the possibility of Rahul Gandhi’s inclusion in the Cabinet, the man at the centre of it all said only time will show whether he would join the Ministry or work for the party.

Bhopal, May 19 (IANS) At least nine people, including seven children, were killed and 20 injured when the tractor trolley they were travelling in overturned in Madhya Pradesh’s Tikamgarh district, police said Tuesday.

“The accident took place late Monday in Nanhi Tekri locality when the driver lost balance while negotiating a turn and the tractor trolley overturned,” said an official of Bodera police station.