Ahmedabad ,March 28: After Saturday’s marathon questioning for over nine hours in two sessions of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Special Investigation Team head R.K. Raghavan said on Sunday it would help the team to understand and unravel questions relating to the anti-Muslim riots which engulfed the state in 2002.　

New Delhi ,March 28: After changing its name to Wahadat-e-Islami (WeI), the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (Simi) is now preparing for fresh terror attacks in India with the help of paragliders.

Lucknow ,March 28: Ajai Rai, an Independent MLA from the Kolasla Assembly constituency of Varanasi district in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested on Sunday for attempting to murder a local trader.

New Delhi ,March 28: The Supreme Court, saying the interest of a child’s development should be held paramount in any custody matter relating to a divorce suit between estranged couples, has held that no rigid conditions could be laid in a divorce agreement about a child’s custody in view of his or her future development.

The Oberoi Trident Hotel and Air India office dominate the Nariman Point end of Mumbai’s famed Queen’s Necklace before and during Earth Hour in Mumbai on Saturday when offices and homes in thousands of cities and towns across 125 countries voluntarily switched off electrical power (between 8.30 pm and 9.30 pm in India) to save energy and cut emissions that affect the climate.  PHOTO: Reuters

New Delhi ,March 27: The Planning Commission, in a presentation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has suggested changes in the guidelines of the top 20 Centre-sponsors schemes to include audits by the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India because the Central government has been spending large sums of money (about Rs 10,00,000 crores in the 11th Five-Year Plan period) on various Central schemes in the social sector and on rural development programmes, but it does not have any means to control the process of actual delivery at the grassroots level

Chicago ,March 27: The world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, is "healthy" and "giving orders" to deputies in Al Qaeda, according to a Pakistani-origin taxi driver arrested by the FBI here on charges of providing funds to the terror outfit.

Islamabad, March 27: A Pakistani anti-terror court conducting the trial of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks on Saturday dismissed the prosecution’s application for naming Ajmal Kasab and Fahim Ansari as "proclaimed offenders" or fugitives.

Srinagar ,March 27: Twelve Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants, including a "district commander", have been killed in three separate clashes with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir. The fiercest gunfight of the three has been raging in the woods close to the Line of Control in Keran sector, northwest of Srinagar, since Wednesday, leaving eight militants dead and an Army officer critically injured, officials here said on Saturday.