Khurshid reaches lanka for bilateral talks
Colombo: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid arrived here on Monday to hold talks with top Sri lankan leaders on a host of issues, including that of Indian fishermen languishing in jails and power devolution to the provinces.
50 dead on Arab-Israeli war anniversary
Cairo: At least 50 were killed in clashes between Islamists and police in Egypt, as thousands marked the anniversary of 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
Audios of Auschwitz survivors go online
Berlin: The voices of Holocaust survivors and Nazi death camp guards can be heard in an online audio archive launched on Monday of testimony from Germany’s first Auschwitz trial half a century ago.
US blacklists egyptian militant leader
Washington: The US on Monday blacklisted Al-Qaeda-linked Egyptian Islamist militant leader Muhammad Jamal as a global terrorist, accusing him of setting up training camps for suicide bombers in Egypt and libya.
Woman caught planting bomb near Iraq school
Baghdad: A guard caught a woman planting a bomb next to a primary school in Iraq on Monday, while two killed four Sahwa anti-Al-Qaeda fighters, officials said.
Indian bids to kill self in Embassy in Bahrain
Dubai: A 21-year-old jilted Indian lover has allegedly tried to commit suicide at the Indian Embassy premises in Bahrain. Balaji Bhaskaran appeared to cut his hand at the embassy in Manama on October 3.
Avoid racial profiling at airports: Amjad Khan
New York: Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan, once detained and frisked at a US airport in what he believes was “racial profiling”, has asked authorities to take steps like on the spot background check to avoid humiliation of visitors.
Bomb kills 7 during anti-polio campaign
Peshawar: At least seven people, including four policemen, were killed on Monday when a bomb targeted a police vehicle providing security to an anti-polio programme.