Indians in Gaza are safe and are taking precautions amid a massive Israeli military operation that left 155 dead and more Palestiniana fire-fighters at the Hamas compound following the Israeli missile strike.
The Mumbai police shifted Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman alias Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested in connection with the November 26 attacks, to Arthur Road jail in central Mumbai for an identification parade.
Mayawati said she was ready to recommend a CBI inquiry into the lynching of PWD engineer allegedly by a BSP MLA provided the probe agency takes over the cases referred to it by the state government including those relating to police recruitment during Samajwadi Party rule.
Seeking to lower temperatures, President Asif Ali Zardari said Pakistan is not talking of war or vengeance and that dialogue is the solution for all issues in the region.
Bangladesh summoned the Indian ambassador in Dhaka to protest oil exploration survey by Indian ships in the gas-rich waters of Bay of Bengal, which both the countries are laying claim to.
India said Pakistan was trying to whip up ‘war hysteria’ and asked Islamabad and leaders there not to create tension and deflect the issue of the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
'Common friends' of India and Pakistan are playing their role to defuse tension between the two countries as war is not in the interest of either nation, said Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
India has informed Pakistan that it has not engaged in any sort of troop build-up along the frontier and sought firm action against terrorist camps and militant groups operating from the Pakistani soil.
The special court convicted 63 accused, in a case relating to the May 2003 communal attack at Marad beach near Kozhikode, while acquitting 76 others for want of evidence. The attack had claimed 9 lives.
