A Paris court on Thursday found Jean-Paul Guerlain, the former “nose” behind the world-famous perfume brand, guilty of racial insults over his televised remarks about “negroes”, and fined him.

IB sources in Gadchiroli told this newspaper that a major attack on security agencies was being planned by the Naxals since the last two months.

The 12 deceased killed in Gadchiroli Naxal attack were from the 192 Battalion.
The bus was part of a fleet of the CRPF vehicles that were en route to a civic action programme in Gatta village.

The national progress report presented by India at the Second Nuclear Security Summit here says, “India has adhered to NSG guidelines and has expressed interest in full membership of the NSG and other international export-control regimes.”

The neighbours met in Seoul, South Korea, after all. But if Pak Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was hoping that his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh would readily accept his invite to visit Pakistan, it was not to be. Instead, Dr Singh told his Pakistani counterpart that “something solid needs to be done before we can celebrate”.

The growing threat of nuclear terrorism and the possibility of nuke materials falling into the hands of non-state actors has prompted the array of world leaders who gathered here for the Second Nuclear Security Summit to call for concerted efforts to tackle it both at the national and international levels.

India has yet again sought membership of four elite nuclear clubs — all multilateral export control regimes. This time it made its pitch at the Second Nuclear Security Summit here.

A Chandigarh court on Tuesday ordered that Balwant Singh Rajoana, on death row for assassinating former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, be hanged on March 31 as scheduled.

Maintaining that Pakistan is “pursuing strategic restraint and confidence building through dialogue” in south Asia (read India), Pakistan has made a strong pitch yet again for access to nuclear technology for peaceful uses on a non-discriminatory basis.

The militant outfits are suspected to have been using women and anti-social elements to carry out extortion and kidnappings by outsourcing responsibility of picking up the target and serving the demand notes in Assam.