MUMBAI: Hundreds of people affected by the serial blasts that ripped through local trains here on 7/11 are still grappling with the trauma and shock caused by one of the country's worst terror attacks.

NEW DELHI: Former prime minister Chandra Shekhar, known as a committed Socialist and a rebel throughout his life, died here on Sunday morning after a prolonged battle with cancer of the blood. He had turned 80 just a week ago. The firebrand leader, once known as a “Young Turk” in the Congress, who had friends cutting across party lines, is survived by two sons. He breathed his last at 8.45 am at Apollo Hospital here, where he had been admitted three months ago.

NEW DELHI/LONDON: The pride of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that India with the second largest population of Muslims in the world did not have a single recruit to Al Qaida has been dented with the reports of the involvement of nearly half a dozen Indians - many of them doctors – in the foiled terror attacks in Glasgow and London.

NEW DELHI: The Indo-Pak dialogue process has slowed down because of the "situation" in Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here today as he noted that the dangers of fundamentalism were now being realized in that country, in an apparent reference to the Lal Masjid episode.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hit back at Leader of the Opposition L K Advani for calling him "handpicked" and had a dig at BJP for not fielding Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat as its candidate in the Presidential election.

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court told the state administration categorically that no water-logging should happen anywhere across the state in the next monsoon.

BANGALORE: A police team led by a senior official questioned the family of Sabeel Ahmed, one of the three Indian doctors detained in connection with the failed terror plot in Britain.

NEW DELHI: With the target to reverse the tide of HIV epidemic in the country by 2011, the third phase of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP-III) is being launched

CHENNAI: Hundreds of villagers throng a cave temple in western Tamil Nadu every year, not knowing that the Goddess Amma idol they worship over the last two decades is in fact a sculpture of Mahavira dating to the seventh century.

NEW DELHI: The recently declassified US official records throw new light on the anger and frustration that seized President Richard Nixon during the 1971 Indo-Pak war and how Washington secretly pleaded with China to "menace" India by moving troops to the Indian border.