Tibetan monks sit on a hillside to pray during a mass cremation of victims of Wednesday’s earthquake in Yushu county, in northwest China’s Qinghai province, on Saturday. The toll in the 7.1-magnitude earthquake reached 1,339 on Saturday. Another 332 people are still missing. PHOTO: AP

Bengaluru, April 17: Two low-intensity improvised explosive devices with timers were detonated within a span of 15 minutes at gates 2 and 12 at Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Saturday afternoon, injuring at least 15 people, including six policemen on duty at the stadium for the IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Mumbai Indians.

New Delhi, April 17: The Congress party on Saturday indicated that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would take a “considered view” on the fate of minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor, who is in the thick of a controversy over the IPL Kochi franchise ownership.

Mumbai, April 17: Income-tax officials have not been able to locate several “vital” documents that could help trace the source of money that is being pumped by the franchisees into the Indian Premier League despite raiding several of its offices. Officials have now asked IPL commissioner Lalit Modi to produce the documents and be present before them on Monday for further questioning.

Islamabad, April 17: The then Pakistan Military Intelligence (MI) chief, Major General Nadeem Ijaz, a relative of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, had ordered the police to hose down the scene of two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007, reveals the UN report on the killing.

April 17: Gujarat governor Kamla Beniwal returned chief minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious bill seeking to make mandatory voting in elections to local bodies in the state. The bill, clubbed with raising 50 per cent reservation for women in elections to local bodies, was passed by the state

April 17: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said there is a possibility of US President Barack Obama visiting India either in August or in October this year. 

Chennai, April 17: The denial of permission to enter the country to slain LTTE chief Prabhakaran’s ailing mother, Parvathy Velupillai, after she landed at Chennai airport from Kuala Lumpur late Friday night has evoked strong protests from some political parties and Tamil groups, who slammed the authorities for what they termed an “inhuman act”.

Deccan Chargers’ Rohit Sharma and Bodapatti Sumanth celebrate their five-wicket win over Kings XI Punjab in their IPL-3 match in Dharamsala on Friday. The Chargers are now in fourth place. Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay

Brasilia, April 16: India and the United States are looking at the option of setting up a joint working group to deal with legal issues related to the questioning of American-Pakistani Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative David Coleman Headley, who is wanted in India for his role in the Mumbai 26/11 terror attack, top Indian government sources have told this newspaper.