India

NEW DELHI - Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur on Friday asked the Australian government to take stern action against the culprits of the latest attack in the long-running series of attacks on Indians in Australia.

JAMMU - Four persons were killed and 51 seriously injured when a mini-bus skidded off the road and fell into a 250-feet deep gorge near Doda District on Friday on its way from Bhaderwah to Doda.

NEW DELHI - Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor said on Friday said that keeping in view the Indian Army standards, they would consider inducting the widows of defence personnel into the force.

UDHAMPUR - General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command (GOC-in-C), Lt Gen B S Jaswal, on Friday said Pakistan is trying to hype up the situation and is desperate to scuttle the process of normalcy that is going on in J and K and additional attacks, including that of Fidayeens can not be ruled out.

GAYA - Thousands of Hindus are visiting Gaya to conduct 'Pind Daan', a ritual performed for the salvation of ancestors' souls, and taking a holy dip in the Falgu river as a part the ritual unmindful of severe cold.