Mumbai : 10-km-long traffic jam on Mumbai-Goa highway with heavy vehicles still on road despite ban during Ganesh festival          Andhra Pradesh : Andhra declares Friday as optional holiday for government offices on account of second Jumatul Vida or last Friday of Ramzan          Assam : Assam police arrest a most wanted ULFA bomber, Ratan Loing, from Jalukonibari in Jorhat district late Thursday          Bihar : Arjun Munda to take oath as new CM of Jharkhand Saturday, will prove majority Sep 14          Delhi : Delhi HC asks DERC to spell out reasons for increased tariff for the year 2010-2011          Gujarat : Four killed, three injured when a speeding truck hit them on highway at Virochannagar near Sanand this morning          Himachal Pradesh : Met predicts clear weather in the state today; no major rainfall was recorded Thursday and Dharamsala had only 13 mm of rain          Haryana : Police recover over 8,000 bottles of smuggled foreign liquor worth Rs5.5 lakh from a truck in Panchkula late Thursday; 2 arrested          Jammu and Kashmir : Three troopers killed in a grenade blast in Pattan area in Baramulla late Thursday          Karnataka : Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated Saturday in Karnataka as moon could not be sighted till late Thursday by Ruyaht Hill Committee          Kerala : Muslims in Kerala celebrate Eid Ul-Fitr today, prayers held at several places in the morning          Madhya Pradesh : Forest minister Sartaj Singh directs officials to strictly enforce ban on use of polythene in national parks and sanctuaries          Maharashtra : Six persons killed, nine injured as a truck collides with an autorickshaw near village Medshi in Vashim district Thursday          Mumbai : Unidentified persons loot gold, jewellery, kill an old lady at Adarsh Housing Society in Dadar Thursday          Northeast : Special court rejects bail petition of ex-Arunachal CM G Apang for 2nd time; he was arrested in multi-crore-rupee PDS scam in Aug          Orissa : BJP MLA Manoj Pradhan sentenced to six years RI, fined Rs15,500 for a murder during Kandhamal riots in 2008          Punjab : Gurdaspur police arrest 2 men, recover 14 kg of poppy husk, valued at Rs 15 lakh, late Thursday          Rajasthan : Talks between striking HC lawyers and representative of CJ over alleged irregularities in ADJ exam fails; strike to continue          UP East : Seven more children die of encephalitis in last 24 hours in Gorakhpur; with 39 new cases, 281 patients now under treatment          UP West : Seven more children die of encephalitis in last 24 hours in Gorakhpur; with 39 new cases, 281 patients now under treatment          Tamil Nadu : Southern Railway extends operations of special trains 0669, 0670 between Trichy and Bangalore city till Oct 12          Chennai : Chennai Police unearth a racket of credit card data being stolen to book tickets on domestic flights, arrest two          West Bengal : Police recover two charred bodies from Santhia area in Birbhum district today; bodies not yet identified          Kolkata : A 26-year-old youth found dead in a drain at Lichubagan area in Howrah district early today