Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today visited Thursday’s blast sites and hospitals where the injured are being treated to express “solidarity” with the people of the city and appealed for peace and calm.

15 special teams have been set up to crack the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts case even as Andhra Pradesh government today announced steps to ramp up security including installation of 3,500 CCTV cameras at vital points.

BJP leader L.K. Advani today blamed Pakistan squarely for Thursday’s blasts in Hyderabad, saying it is involved in a proxy war against India.

A new bench has been constituted by the Kerala high court to hear the Suriyanelli rape case. A division bench, comprising justices K.T. Shankaran and M.L. Joseph Francis, would hear the bail pleas filed by some of the accused on Monday.

Abdul Wasey Mirza, a 23-year-old unemployed youth who became the victim of a terror attack for the second time on Thursday during the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts, has been questioned by the police which is not treating him as a suspect.

Actress Sonakshi Sinha may have performed a disco song in Himmatwala but in real life she does not go to clubs or disco regularly.

India were 182 for three in their first innings at stumps on the second day of the first cricket Test against Australia here today.

Brief Scores: Australia 1st Innings: 380 all out

Refined palmolein slipped in an otherwise mute oils and oilseeds market here today on reduced demand from retailers. Meanwhile, groundnutoil, castorseeds bold, castoroil commercial and linseedoil all held steady in the absence of any largescale buying activity.

Australia were 317 for seven in their first innings against India at stumps on the opening day of the first cricket Test here today.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has given Anurag Kashyap a go ahead to shoot at his home Pratiksha for the director’s segment in upcoming film Bombay Talkies.