India has conveyed its concerns to France over its sale of armament to Pakistan amid apprehensions that such supplies are used for purposes other than fight against terror.

BJP leader L.K. Advani on Thursday said the attack on a naval base in Karachi has raised questions over the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear assets. Mr Advani had asked the government to take note of the seriousness of the situation.
“The situation is really serious. It does not only concern Pakistan. It is a matter of concern for India as well as

Tamil matinee idol Rajnikanth is going to Singapore for further treatment, said his daughter Aishwarya, adding he is not in any danger but needed privacy.

Home minister P. Chidambaram and US secretary of homeland security Janet Napolitano will jointly launch the US-India homeland security dialogue here on Friday.

At least six Air India flights were cancelled on Friday as the airline prepared a contingency plan to meet a fuel shortage after three state-owned oil firms refused to supply jet fuel till it paid off its mounting dues.

India has conveyed its concern to the United States over the way an Indian diplomat’s daughter was arrested and treated by American authorities on a false charge.

With President Pratibha Patil rejecting the mercy petition of two convicts on death row, BJP on Friday raised the pitch for the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and said the government was not bound to go by sequence while dealing with pending pleas.

Indian ambassador to the US Meera Shankar on Thursday said the trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, who is accused with David Coleman Headley for the 26/11 terror attacks in the US, is throwing new light on the conspiracy to carry out the worst terror strike in India.

Dissatisfied with the military and espionage training received by Mumbai attacks accused David Headley from the LeT, Pakistan’s spy agency ISI provided him a special course in Lahore for carrying out surveillance ahead of the 26/11 carnage.

Former Bihar minister Ramadhar Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday surrendered in a lower court in Aurangabad after quietly remaining a proclaimed absconder for 16 years and being forced to resign from the state Cabinet following the revelation last week.