Intensifying his campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said chief minister Mayawati and Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav have become insensitive and inconsiderate towards the people of the state.

The commercial aviation sector in India and the West Asia is expected to achieve overall annual growth of 9 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively, for several years to come and will account for 11 per cent of the total aircraft deliveries worldwide over the next decade.

Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani refused an American request to confiscate the cell phone of jailed LeT commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi being used to direct the group's operation from the Rawalpindi jail, reflecting connection between the country's powerful military and the terrorist outfit.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has questioned the delay in allocating portfolios to ministers by chief minister Nabam Tuki in Arunachal Pradesh, and criticized induction of 23 MLAs as parliamentary secretaries (PSs).

India and the UAE will sign two major bilateral agreements for exchange of prisoners and security cooperation on Wednesday in New Delhi.

In a two-way contest with China, India has been elected to the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit, an independent external oversight body mandated to conduct evaluations, inspections and investigations of UN system worldwide.

Seven passengers, including two children, were charred to death and four Australians injured when two coaches of the Howrah-Dehradun Express caught fire in Jharkhand's Giridih district in the wee hours on Tuesday.

Anna Hazare came under fire from political parties for his controversial comments that alcoholics should be flogged and shamed in public, a prescription dubbed by Congress as a Taliban-type action.

Fresh violence was feared as Egyptians on Tuesday converged on Cairo's revolutionary Tahrir Square in response to a call for a million man march, threatening to derail the country's first elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday sent a stern warning to Pakistan stating that it must do more to counter terrorism and extremism, especially on its borders with Afghanistan.