Suspected Naxalites have killed a person at Dudbeda village in Bijapur district, some 450 kilometers from Raipur, police said on Tuesday.

Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman, the lone terrorist caught alive during November 26 terror attacks, is not aware that Pakistan has disowned him, a crime branch official said.

In a rare instance, two stillborn, male twins - both devoid of hearts as well - were successfully removed from inside their two-and-half-month-old living twin brother by surgeons at Banaras Hindu University hospital on Monday, reports Anuraag Singh.

As the gunbattle in Bhati Dhar forest in J&K's Poonch district entered the sixth day today, the army said it has adopted a "wait and watch" strategy to take on the holed-up terrorists in cave hideouts in the area.

Violence in Srinagar, 6 injured

Five persons have been detained on charges of gang rape of an MBA student in Noida.

Speaking tough against the backdrop of its continued denials, PM Manmohan Singh accused Pak of utilizing terrorism as an instrument of state policy and said given the "sophistication and military precision" of the Mumbai terror attack, it musthave had the support of some official agencies in that country.

Gautam Goswami, former Patna district magistrate and a key accused in the Rs 170 million Bihar flood relief scam of 2004, died after losing his battle with cancer.

An activist has been killed in an encounter at Ningombam Lamkhai in Manipur's Imphal West District, police said today.

Over 800 people were arrested in the national capital last year on charges of peddling and possession of drugs, which lead to a recovery of a huge amount of narcotics.

Seven members of a family were killed on Tuesday when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a truck in Uttar Pradesh, police said.

Three men have been killed inside a mine of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) in Jharkhand, an official said on Tuesday.

The Congress party demanded that Orissa CM Naveen Patnaik resign over the communal violence in Kandhamal district as the SC had held the central and state Govts responsible for the security of minorities.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai and Guwahati, the Meghalaya government has constituted a State Crisis Management Group to deal with such in the event of such a crisis.

Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman, the lone terrorist arrested for his involvement in the November 26 Mumbai terror attacks, was on Tuesday remanded to police custody till January 19 by a Magistrate court in Mumbai.

The sight of slothful, pot-bellied policemen in the Indian capital hardly makes the public feel safe. But now at least 10 constables at each police station will be turned into commandos and equipped with AK-47 assault rifles to counter terror strikes.

The TRS appears all set to join the 'grand alliance', headed by Andhra Pradesh's main opposition Telugu Desam Party and including the Left parties, for the ensuing elections to the assembly and the Lok Sabha.

"The terror attack in Mumbai was clearly carried out by a Pakistan-based outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba," Manmohan Singh said categorically, adding that the military precision displayed was enough evidence to show that it had support from the state.

As many as 40 Delhi-bound trains were running several hours behind schedule today as dense fog continued to affect rail services for the ninth consecutive day.

As government's threat to cancel permits of agitating trucks failed to yield any result, the nationwide indefinite strike by truckers today entered the second day.