President Barack Obama took note of the historic animosity between Pakistan and India and signalled the United States wanted to find ways to reduce tensions between the two countries.

Mumbai: With the first anniversary of the Mumbai massacre approaching, some of the unsung heroes of the 26/11 attacks recalled their experiences.

New Delhi: The Congress said the government will act on the recommendations of the Liberhan Commission and a supplementary charge sheet will be filed 'if any new details emerge after the police investigation'. It also said that the report showed the 'true character' of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Pune: President Pratibha Patil arrived here on a three day visit to the city during which she is scheduled to fly in the Russian-made Sukhoi MKI fighter jet of the Indian Air Force.

Ranchi: Polling began today at 7 am for the first of the five-phase assembly elections in Jharkhand under air surveillance and tight security, state election commission sources said. With the minimum temperature hovering around 9 degree Celsius at many places, men and women wearing woollen garments were seen queueing in front of different booths in all the 26 assembly constituencies going to the polls, to exercise their franchise.

Washington: President Barack Obama has promised to visit India next year and assured that the nuclear deal signed between India and the US will be fully implemented.

New Delhi: To promote traffic of automobiles through the railways, its ministry is considering 15 automobile hubs to be set up on public-private partnership across the country.

New Delhi: Anil Ambani-led Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL) today asserted in the Supreme Court that family MoU of 2005 was a "sacrosanct" document for resolving the gas row with Mukesh Ambani group Reliance Industries (RIL) and accused it of scuttling efforts to arrive at a bankable agreement for the supply of gas from KG Basin.

New Delhi/ Jalandhar: If you want to fulfil your dream of landing on a foreign land for greener pastures, come to this small village called Talhan in this district, offer toy plane to the local gurdwara and your dreams might turn into reality.

Chennai/ Bangalore: Comat Technologies, a company engaged in rural service delivery, has commenced distribution of digitised ration cards across several districts in Karnataka. The process is expected to conclude by the end of 2009, making Karnataka the first state in the country to digitise ration cards.

New Delhi: MoUs range across pharma, telecom, IT and homeland security.

Bangalore: In continuation of its pursuit to buy firms in niche areas, Infosys Technologies, the country’s second largest IT services firm, is actively looking at acquiring companies in the consulting and healthcare spaces in the range of $400-500 million.

New Delhi: Indicted by the Liberhan Commission report as one of those responsible for the Babri Masjid demolition, Uma Bharti said she takes moral responsibility for the incident but will fight it legally as she can easily prove that she had no hand in the destruction of the mosque.

New Delhi: A B Vajpayee and L K Advani head a list of 68 leaders of the Sangh Parivaar and bureaucrats held culpable by the Liberhan Commission for leading the country to the "brink of communal discord" over the Ayodhya issue.

Chandigarh: Justice M.S. Liberhan, whose report on the 1992 Babri mosque demolition was tabled in parliament Tuesday, sought "privacy" as he was hounded by the media even when he went to an optician's shop here. He maintained that he had clearly said everything in his report.

Washington: President Barack Obama rolled out the red carpet Tuesday for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the first official state visit of his presidency with a state greeting in the White House.

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Islamabad/New Delhi: Continuing to remain in denial mode, Pakistan Tuesday said India had not provided any evidence of terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed's involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

Panaji: The film piracy industry in India is worth Rs.1,500 crore and its profits are being used to fund terrorism in the country, a top official of CD-DVD manufacturer Moser Baer said Tuesday.

New Delhi: Snapping the six-day gaining streak, gold prices today fell by Rs 30 at Rs 17,780 per 10 gram in the bullion market here on selling pressure, emerging on concerns over IMF's plans to sell more gold.

Home Minister P Chidambaram came under fire in both Houses of Parliament over the leaked report of the Justice Liberhan Commision of Inquiry that went into the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992.

One of the most audacious terror strikes of our times shook Mumbai on November 26 2008. For the first time perhaps in the history of India, terrorists were spotted (and even captured on CCTV cameras) moving out openly, shooting and killing innocent bystanders.

New Delhi: The government has given "in principle" approval for the establishment of 12 greenfield airports for public use in various parts of the country, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.

New Delhi: Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh on Tuesday admitted to have instructed the District Magistrate not to shoot as it could have led to multiple casualties of karsevaks.

A year has gone by since the deadly 26/11 attacks, a lot has happened since then.

Force One, Maharashtra's specialised counter-terror unit formed as a response to the 26/11 attacks, became operational on Tuesday. Its mandate however is far from clear.

Scientists have found an amazing population of species in deep ocean floors that have never seen sunlight and live like hermits with limited food.

New Delhi: The Government decided to table in Parliament the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992, a day after the leakage of the findings set off a political storm.

Manila: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo placed two southern provinces under a state of emergency Tuesday, giving security forces free hands to pursue gunmen who killed at least 24 people in one of the country's worst election massacres.

New York: Five new restroom ambassadors will soon be tweeting from toilets at Times Square after beating hundreds of hopefuls for the coveted jobs.

New Delhi: The Government decided to table in Parliament the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992, a day after the leakage of the findings set off a political storm.

New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), the mother organization of Bharatiya Janata Party, on Tuesday owned the Ayodhya movement but refused to apologise about what happened in Ayodhya in 1992 which led to demolition of the Babri mosque.

Allahabad: In a setback to Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh, the Allahabad High Court today refused to grant stay on his arrest in connection with an FIR accusing him of amassing Rs 500 crore by awarding contracts to a number of companies.

The leaked report of the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry that went into the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992, has thrown up a few disturbing questions. While politicians debate the veracity of the leak and the contents, we look beyond the report that has generated heat in the winter session of Parliament. Here are some questions and implications:

With India's rapid growth a critical engine of the global economy, the meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama is an important step in ensuring India's establisment as a vital partner in global security and development. A number of key decisions are being made during the meeting of the two heads of state at the Indo-US summit in Washington.

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New Delhi: The Government decided to table in Parliament the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992, a day after the leakage of the findings set off a political storm.

Washington: Against the backdrop of some provocative steps by China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said there was "certain amount of assertiveness" by China lately, which had to be taken note of.

Washington: Noting that India's rapid growth is a critical engine of global economy, PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi has said the business community in the US was eager on playing an active role in the country's future economic development.

Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said India and the US can do much more to expand security cooperation and warned the US and international community against any premature exit in Afghanistan that will embolden extremists and destabilise the region.

Tata Consultancy Services, India's top outsourcing company, said on Monday it does not expect volume growth in the December quarter to match the September quarter as firms are still deciding on IT budgets.

A pregnant woman was thrashed and paraded naked in Uttar Pradesh – all over a land dispute. The file also has an attack on Mahima Chaudhry’s car and how a kidnapped Delhi boy was rescued. Read on.

Dharwad: After raking up debate over Jehad last week, noted jurist Ram Jethamalani has asked the Karnataka government to hand to order a CBI probe into alleged illegal encroachment of mines on the Karnakata-Andhra Pradesh border by state ministers Janardhan Reddy and Karunakara Reddy. Jethamalani, who was here to argue a case, told reporters that Andhra Pradesh government had already referred alleged illegal mining activity by Obalapuram Mining Company, owned by the Reddy brothers, to CBI. Karnataka government should also refer it to CBI, he said.

Kolkata: The West Bengal government has not received any compensation bill from Tata Motors for the land at Singur given for its small car project, although group chairman Ratan Tata has expressed willingness to return the land to the government if compensated for its investment. "As far as I am aware, the Tatas have not given us any compensation bill (for the land at Singur)," state Chief Secretary Asok Mohan Chakraborty told newsmen when asked whether the state government was paying any compensation to the Tatas for the return of the land.

Coimbatore: Mylswamy Annadurai, Project Director of Chandrayan Mission II, ISRO, on Monday said that there would be more indigenous components in country's second moon mission.

India's army tested a nuclear-capable Agni missile after sunset on Monday for the first time to demonstrate it could be fired whenever required, defence officials said.

Mumbai: Mumbai Police Commissioner D Shivanandan on Monday said that security has been beefed-up at major places in the city as a precautionary measure, prior to the first anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks.

New Delhi: Hours before India put nuclear enabled missile Agni-II to nigth trial, Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor said that Indian sub-continent is prone to nuclear war.

New Delhi: Kavita Karkare, the widow of slain Maharashtra top cop Hemant Karkare, got a sympathetic hearing from Congress president Sonia Gandhi on whom she called on here Monday.

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Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought to downplay the recent US-China joint statement saying it's not of "direct concern" to him, but asserted that India will not choose the "non-democratic" Chinese path of high economic growth, but its own route of democracy and development.

Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday made a vigorous pitch for attracting more American foreign investment in areas ranging from infrastructure to agriculture and green energy and underlined that no investor is more welcome in India than the investors from the US.

New Delhi: An angry Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Monday described as a "breach of privilege of the house" the reported "leak" of the Liberhan Commission report in the media and stated he was personally proud of his "association with the Ayodhya movement".

London: British police have charged four men, including a father-son duo, with attempting to wage "violent jihad" after arresting them in northern England.

Mumbai: Stating that the government was looking into the alleged comments made by former city police commissioner Hassan Gafoor accusing four senior officers of dereliction of duty during the 26/11 terror attacks, Mumbai Police chief D Sivanandan Monday rubbished reports of a war within the police force.

Mumbai: Blood and gore, fear, good versus evil, acts of valour, moving tales of survivors, grief, a dash of high society...26/11, perhaps more than any other single event in India's recent history, had all that it takes to spawn books and movies.

New Delhi: Delhi Police today claimed to have cracked a gang of robbers operating on stolen motorcycles with the arrest of five persons and recovery of four vehicles and jewellery worth around Rs 4.65 lakh.

Home Minister P Chidambaram came under fire in both Houses of Parliament over the leaked report of the Justice Liberhan Commision of Inquiry that went into the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992.

New Delhi: A premier defence laboratory has developed a swine flu detection kit and the process for transferring the technology for commercialization has also been initiated, parliament was informed Monday.

Chandigarh: "Get lost!" This was M.S. Liberhan's outburst when confronted by journalists over his leaked report into the Babri mosque razing published Monday. The retired Supreme Court judge, whose report on the December 1992 demolition has created a furore in parliament, said he had not leaked the report to anyone.

The dozens of murders every weekend in Caracas are just the tip of a crime problem that polls show is Venezuelans' main daily concern.

Brenda, a Brazilian transsexual caught up in a scandal which prompted the resignation of a senior Italian politician - the centre-left governor of Lazio region, which includes Rome - was found burnt to death in his home.

The attacks on Mumbai were devastating to India and had a profound impact across the world. As the anniversary approaches, we go through the incidents as they happened, and exploring how Mumbai came to grips with one of the worst terrorist incidents in her history.

New Delhi: As many as five Indian companies, including ICICI Bank and Infosys Technologies, rank among the top 12 companies in the Asia Pacific region for being instrumental in building leadership capability within their organisation.

Home Minister P Chidambaram came under fire in both Houses of Parliament over the leaked report of the Justice Liberhan Commision of Inquiry that went into the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992.

Washington: Crediting the Indian diaspora with changing the image of India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has acknowledged the contribution of the over 2.5 million strong Indian community in America in building better ties with the US.

Mumbai: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex today gained 102 points in opening trade on heavy buying by foreign funds and retail investors, driven by firming trend on other Asian bourses. The 30-share index, Sensex, rose 101.81 points, or 0.58 per cent, to 17,123.66 points with stocks of oil and gas, auto and metal sectors leading the rise.

New Delhi: The Indian Navy has floated a Request for Information (RFI) for a newer generation of aircraft which can operate from the two indigenous aircraft carriers it will commission over the next 10 years.

Washington: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in the US on a state visit he said as a responsible nuclear power, India should be given access to dual use technologies to help it grow.

New Delhi: The row over the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry into the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition led to the Lok Sabha being adjourned till 12 noon Monday.

New Delhi: A senior official of the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry said he was "astonished" at a media report linking Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to the 1992 Babri mosque razing.

The Bharatiya Janata Party is in another big soup. This time, the ghost of the Babri Masjid demolition has come to haunt top BJP leaders including the party’s `clean man’ Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

New Delhi: Accusing the Congress of playing "dirty politics", the BJP demanded suspension of Question Hour in both Houses of Parliament and a debate on the "selective leaks" on Liberhan Commission report on Babri Masjid demolition.

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A report cited by the ruling UPA indicts BJP's top brass along with RSS, VHP and Shiv Sena.

Gold may advance as investors seek to hedge against a weakening dollar and possible inflation, a survey showed. Nineteen of 26 traders, investors and analysts surveyed by Bloomberg, or 73 per cent, said bullion would rise in the week starting November 23. Five forecast lower prices and two were neutral.

Geneva: The US investigators have zeroed in on a Pakistani national who is suspected to be a key link between LeT operatives David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana about whom India is expected to know in a week whether they were involved in Mumbai attacks.

In a third incident of its kind, a Delhi schoolgirl was kidnapped in a car and raped by a stalker. The file also has the incident of violence on JNU campus as four outsiders, who claimed to be related to senior police officials, teased girls. There is also a breakthrough in the infamous murder of an India-born woman in London. A teenager has been charged with the murder. Read on.

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Sixty hours that spelled terror in Mumbai last year in December were captured by various media channels across the world. Almost all facets, human or otherwise, were sealed in the lens from very close quarters. The cameramen at work back then perhaps were equivalent to foot soldiers on a war front.

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Bangalore: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat late Sunday created a flutter at a public meeting here by claiming that Indian Muslims were originally Hindus and follow Hindu rituals. In other words Bhagwat said that Indian Muslims are virtually Hindus .

New Delhi: Violence broke out on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus late Sunday evening when four outsiders in an inebriated state were caught teasing women students and Delhi Police had to resort to baton charge and teargas to disperse the agitated students.

Paris: May challenge Kraft’s offer and a potential move by Hershey.

Inidvidually they have fame, they have money, they have success. And when these individuals come together, they become a force to reckon with. Counting down the power couples from around the world. Power couples, as defined by Wikipedia, is a popular or financially wealthy pairing that intrigues and fascinates the public in an intense or even obsessive fashion. Here, we present you the current power couples who rule the roost.

Bangalore: The Indian Air Force is taking a crucial step towards accepting the indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) as a replacement for its ageing MiG-21 fighters. Senior air force officers told Business Standard that IAF was ordering a second Tejas squadron (20 aircraft), in addition to the 20 fighters already on order.

New Delhi: Trying to resolve sticking points on the India-US civil nuclear cooperation agreement on the one hand, and narrow differences on their approach to climate change on the other, India and the US are likely to sign a joint Memorandum on Energy Security, Clean Energy and Climate Change during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the United States this week.

Even as most analysts are saying the worst of the economic downturn is over, a survey by the PHD Chamber of Commerce reveals only 30 per cent of the respondents plan to increase their hiring activity.

Geneva: The US investigators believe some elements in Pakistan's ISI could be linked to American terror suspect David Headley, who is currently in FBI custody for trying to plot attacks in India.

Pune: Continuing its attack on Sachin Tendulkar, Shiv Sena Sunday said there was no instance of him helping any Marathi cricketer while Sunil Gavaskar was a "genuine Maharashtrian" and had given Test caps to many players from the state during his tenure as India captain.

Guwahati: Two powerful explosions shook Nalbari town in Assam Sunday, killing seven people and wounding at least 55, officials said. A security alert has been sounded in the state.

Ahead of his meeting with President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said India has no worries about US honouring the Indo-US nuclear deal, but would like to get a "positive reaffirmation" of the present administration to carry forward the process.

Indore: Terming the recent attacks allegedly carried out by activists of Shiv Sena and MNS in Mumbai as "sheer goondaism", Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh today said Bal Thackeray and Raj Thackeray were not above the law.

Mumbai: A year after 26/11, well known freelance writer Bhisham Mansukhani, who lived through a nightmare of a lifetime at the Taj Mahal Hotel, feels nothing has changed. Mumbai residents still care two hoots about security, he says.

Mumbai: The nation's icon of hospitality named after the monument of pure, eternal love -- the Taj Mahal, seared by hate; the irony could not be more pronounced.

Geneva: The US Saturday disclosed to India new information linking the anti-terror plot hatched by expatriates David Coleman Headley and Tahawuur Rana with some elements in the ISI and said it will reveal the name of a key Pakistani national linked to the Mumbai carnage in a week's time.