NEW DELHI: A 10-year old son of a prominent industrialist was kidnapped from outside his Golf Links residence in South Delhi by three armed desperados on Tuesday morning. Tarun, son of the owner of an engineering firm, Virender Puri, was snatched as his parents watched. One of the three abductors opened fire when Puri grappled with them. The abductors again fired in the air while fleeing from the spot. Their car carried no number plate. No ransom call has so far been made, the police said, adding that they suspected the hand of a western Uttar Pradesh gang in the incident.

Thums Up `adventure' ad withdrawn

NEW DELHI: Coca Cola India on Tuesday announced the withdrawal of its adventure sports ads following the death of a 10-year-old school boy in Calcutta on Sunday. ``We have immediately withdrawn the airing of the commercial from all television networks,'' a company spokesman said here. He reiterated that the advertisement was ``an illustration of an adventure sport and was never intended to influence any person''. Probal Saha, a fourth standard student, leapt to his death trying to imitate a daredevil heli-jumping stunt shown in the Thums Up television commercial.

RBI can serve Press notices to CRB

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday allowed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to serve notices on the managing director of the scam-tainted CRB Capital Markets Ltd, C R Bhansali, through newspapers advertisement and through the Central Bureau of Investigation. Bhansali is currently in judicial custody. Justice M K Sharma ordered that notices to Bhansali be served by publishing advertisements in two daily newspapers.

South zone DD officials go on strike

HYDERABAD: Engineering employees of all the units of All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan, high power and low power transmitters in the south zone including Andhra Pradesh, went on a 72-hour strike on Tuesday in protest against the ``retrograde and anti-employee'' Fifth Pay Commission recommendations.

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