The centrality of Pakistan — which the United States has so far tacitly accepted — in any talks between the Hamid Karzai government and the Pakistan-based Taliban leadership to prepare the regional politics for a post-US Afghanistan, is a thing of the past after Abbottabad.

A Delhi court on Wednesday sent sacked CWG organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi to 14-day judicial custody over the CWG time scoring result scam when he was produced in court after his eight-day CBI remand ended. Special CBI judge Dharmesh Sharma sent Mr Kalmadi and his two co-accused, former CWG officials A.S.V.

India has sought to put a lid on the debate about whether it can or should copy American-style surgical strikes or Israeli targeted assassinations to eliminate targets inside Pakistan by saying that it is an idea whose time may never come. An official source says India would not want to emulate the US or Israel because one, India is not US, and two, India’s relations with Pakistan are historically and qualitatively different from Washington’s ties with Islamabad.

Five days after the Pawan Hans helicopter he was travelling in went missing, Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu was found dead on Wednesday at Luguthang, near border with China.

The US may be celebrating the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. But Muslim leaders here are quick to point out that the man’s whose killing is being hailed worldwide, and particularly in America, was a creation of the US itself.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday reserved its order on the prosecution of 19 witnesses including model-turned-actor Shayan Munshi on charges of perjury for turning hostile during the trial in the Jessica Lal murder case.

Pakistan needs to do more to bring Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi to justice, US ambassador to India Tim Roemer told journalists after calling on home minister P. Chidambaram.

A text message, generated from Blackberry messenger, claiming the recovery of a bomb from Vasant Kunj area of south Delhi on Wednesday turned out to be a hoax.
The police said the message has been generated by a Blackberry phone user and it got circulated to many people, triggering panic. The officials said the “badly worded” message claimed that the bomb disposal squad had recovered a bomb from Vasant Kunj.

India has reminded the US, flush from its success in liquidating Osama bin Laden, that the war on terror cannot end without the elimination of terrorist safe havens inside Pakistan.

The Delhi Metro will begin work on Phase-III in the next two months with the construction of Central Secretariat-Mandi House link. The stretch has been planned to decongest the Rajiv Chowk Metro Station that has a footfall of over four lakh everyday.