Karunanidhi to be DMK chief again CHENNAI: M Karunanidhi, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, will be elected unopposed as the DMK president for a record seventh term at the party's general council meeting here today. K Anbazhagan, Tamil Nadu Education Minister, will be elected for the fourth term as the DMK general secretary. Today's election of the party's president and general secretary will be the culmination of the party's tenth organsiational elections.Himachal governorSHIMLA: V S Rama Devi, a former secretary-general of Rajya Sabha, was sworn in as governor of Himachal Pradesh here today. The chief justice of the Himachal High Court, M Srinivasan, administered the oaths of office and secrecy to Rama Devi at a ceremony in the Durbal hall of the Raj Bhavan. Naxal attackCHITTOOR: Six armed naxalites of the People's War Group (PWG) raided Peddapanjari police station in Chittoor early today and fled with arms and ammunition. Police said the extremists stormed the police station and snatched nine guns, 10 bayonets, 10 rounds of ammunition and three handcuffs. Bishop of MumbaiMUMBAI: Pope John Paul II has appointed the Rt Rev Oswald Gracias (52), Chancellor and Judicial Vicar of the Archdiocese of Mumbai According to a press release, after being ordained a priest in December 1970, Fr Gracias was chancellor of the Jamshedpur diocese for five years, and secretary to the Archibishop of Mumbai for four years. From 1982, he has been the chancellor of the Archdiocese of Mumbai and, from 1988, the judicial vicar. Bishop-elect Oswald Gracias, who is a Bachelor of Arts and has a Doctorate in canon law (Rome) and a diploma in jurisprudence, holds various national and international offices the release added. Bijapur firingBANGALORE: An indefinite curfew was clamped tonight in Ilkal in Karnataka's Bijapur district after one person was killed and another injured in police firing following a flare up of violence.About 15 policemen were injured and four police vehicles damaged today by a violent mob, which got enraged after police prevented them from proceeding towards a Dalit colony to protest the Mumbai desecration.
