One of the dead was a labourer who was returning from work when the blast took place at around 5.45pm.
The identities of the deceased and the injured are yet to be established.
MIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi took exception to RSS activists allegedly being allowed to erect a tarpaulin on a religious structure at Charminar on Sunday, which, he said, was a violation of the state high court order to maintain status quo.
He alleged that Muslim minorities were targeted and "Sangh activists" were allowed to have a free run.
Under the circumstances, the MIM cannot afford to continue its support to the Congress, Owaisi told reporters here.
MIM has seven MLAs in the Andhra Pradesh assembly and one MP (Asaduddin Owaisi) in Lok Sabha.
Congress has a strength of 155 in the 294-member Assembly.
Though MIM's withdrawal of support may not pose immediate threat to the state government, it may affect its stability as three Congress MLAs have switched loyalty to YSR Congress in recent time.
The commission, in its meeting chaired by chief election commissioner V S Sampath, decided to issue the notice after prima facie finding that Vaghela had violated the model code of conduct by making speeches in Surat that made references to the post-Godhra violence.
The EC is preparing the notice and the same is likely to be issued to him by evening.
The Commission's decision to issue the notice came after it received complaints against Vaghela, following which the chief electoral officer, Gujarat, and the district electoral officer, Surat, gave their reports.
It had also received video-recording and transcripts of the speeches and those were seen before issuing the notice.
Vaghela had on October 31 made speeches at the BRC gate ground in Surat where he made references to the Godhra incident and recollected the post-Godhra killings in a bid to woo the Muslim votebank.
The former Gujarat chief minister is reported to have reminded the voters about the post-Godhra violence and charged the Modi-led Gujarat government of having orchestrated them in his speeches.
Vaghela, who has earlier been with the BJP before switching his loyalty to the Congress, is also the chairman of Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC).
Gujarat will go to polls in two phases on December 13 and 17. The counting of votes will take place on December 20.
One of the dead was a labourer who was returning from work when the blast took place at around 5.45pm.
The identities of the deceased and the injured are yet to be established.
The European Union has come under intense international pressure to tear up its law making all airlines using EU airports buy carbon allowances on its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
"To create a positive atmosphere, we have agreed to stop the clock," Hedegaard told a news briefing on Monday.
"If this exercise ends in nothing, we are back to exactly where we were with the EU ETS automatically," she said, adding that this would give the U.N. airlines body, the ICAO, until next November to strike a new deal.
The European Commission, the EU executive, has repeatedly said it only put its law in place after more than a decade of inaction at the ICAO.
Hedegaard said EU member states would have to endorse the Commission's decision for it to take effect.
"BJP is the only party in the country to have got two tainted presidents who were found involved in corruption while holding the post," leader of opposition in Madhya Pradesh assembly Ajay Singh said in a statement here.
He said while the BJP shunned tribal leader and former party president Bangaru Laxaman when he was caught on camera accepting bribe, the party was defending its present chief Nitin Gadkari, in wake of allegations of dubious funding of his company.
"Ironically, BJP patriarch Lal Krishna Advani had taken out a rally across the country on the issue of corruption and black money," Singh said.
He also alleged that corruption is at the peak in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.
Taking a dig at BJP over its leader Ram Jethmalani's remarks that Lord Ram was a "bad husband", the Congress leader said, "The saffron party, which used Lord Ram's name for political gains, seems to have suddenly developed antipathy for the deity. At least the statements of Jethmalani and Vinay Katiyar indicated this."
13 dead after strong earthquake hits Myanmar
The death toll from the 6.8-magnitude quake included four labourers on a bridge and two people killed in a monastery collapse in an area north of Mandalay, Myanmar's second biggest city, the aid group said in a report.
It said a further six people were killed in Sint Ku township in Sagaing region, while one died in Mandalay.
"Shibu Soren is independent on what he wants to do, but there was no deal whatsoever between the BJP and the JMM," Sinha told reporters here in reply to Soren's contention that the agreement would end in January.
Soren had on November 7 told the media in Bokaro that there was a power sharing agreement of 28 months between JMM and BJP in Jharkhand and option of going with the UPA is open for the JMM if the BJP does not adhere to the formula.
He had also said the formula had been agreed to in the presence of leaders of the ruling coalition partners BJP, JMM and AJSU before chief minister Arjun Munda took over the reins on September 11, 2010.
BJP's state unit president Dineshanand Goswami has already denied any such agreement.
Meanwhile, PCC President and Rajya Sabha member Pradeep Kumar Balmachu said in Ranchi "While the JMM says there was a deal, the BJP denies it. That means one of them must have committed breach of trust and the people should know it."
"We acknowledge and respect Guruji's (as Soren is known) contribution in the state's creation. He is a secular leader, but that image is being spoiled by tying up with the BJP," he added.
Tension prevailed in old city on Sunday following rumours that the management of a religious structure had taken up its expansion work near the Charminar.
As tension mounted in some parts of old city over the rumours, the area was cordoned off and some leaders of MIM party were prevented from trying to proceed towards Charminar, violating prohibitory orders banning assembly of five or more persons, police said.
"Six MIM legislators and its two councillors were taken into custody as a precautionary measure for not allowing police to maintain status quo orders of the Andhra Pradesh high court, a senior police officer said.
The MIM leaders alleged that despite the state high court ordering status quo, some groups were carrying out the expansion work.
However, Bhagyalaxmi Devalaya Parirakshana Samithi convener Bhagavanth Rao refuted the charges saying that they have been maintaining court's orders and merely took up works to decorate temple on the occasion of Diwali.
Meanwhile, city police commissioner Anurag Sharma appealed to people to maintain peace and not to believe the rumours.
The usually busy roads leading to the 400-year-old Charminar monument were deserted with police sealing off all the routes by erecting barricades and barbed fencing.
Police intensified patrolling in the sensitive areas of the old city that witnessed communal clashes last week.
Prohibitory orders banning assembly of five or more people remained in force in areas falling under five police station limits of South Zone in old city from November 8.
A large number of policemen including the Rapid Action Force (RAF) were deployed in communally sensitive areas.
BJP on Saturday took out a rally in protest against the state government for not allowing to undertake decoration work at century old temple adjacent to Charminar, on the occasion of Diwali festival.
On a petition filed by MIM, the state high court recently gave a direction to maintain status quo as on October 30.
Accompanied by Speaker Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Kumar laid floral wreaths at the mazars and stood silent for a while to pay homage to the PPP leaders.
Kumar, who arrived in Karachi on November 9, will also travel to Lahore and Islamabad during his week-long goodwill visit to Pakistan.
Earlier, on their arrival at Moen-Jo-Daro airport in Larkana from Karachi by a special aircraft, Kumar and his 12-member delegation were welcomed by school students and officials of the district administration, state-run APP news agency reported.
Yesterday, Kumar visited mausoleum of Mohammad Ali Jinnah to pay homage to the founder of Pakistan.
