Portal:Current events/India/2008 June 4


 * Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao resigned as party chief owning moral responsibility for the bypoll debacle. (Times of India)
 * Gujjar protesters held sway blocking a key rail track in Dausa district leaving several trains suspended and disrupting traffic on a highway linking Rajasthan with Madhya Pradesh. (Hindustan Times)
 * The West Bengal government today reduced the price of a litre of petrol by Rs 2.12 a litre and of diesel by Rs 1.38 a litre by reducing the sales tax on petrol from 25 per cent to 20 per cent and on diesel from 17.5 per cent to 12.5 per cent. (Business Standard)
 * At least 11 Naga underground cadres were killed in a fierce gunfight between rival groups of NSCN on the outskirts of Dimapur in Nagaland. (The Hindu)