Security

BANGALORE - India's premier defence research agency will now have a commercial arm on the lines of the Indian space agency's Antrix to tap export markets, a senior official says.

NEW DELHI - The central government is monitoring the situation in the Kashmir Valley where hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets and damaged government property on Eid-ul-Fitr Saturday, a senior Home Ministry official said.

LONDON - Prominent members of the Sikh community in the UK, and a former senior official of the British Army are planning to establish a permanent national memorial to mark the sacrifice of 21 Sikh soldiers, who had laid down their lives in the battle of Saragarhi Sep 12, 1897.

LONDON - Female lawyers, who have claimed that guards at a Belgium jail were forcing them to remove their brassiere by pretending that metal wiring and clasps were setting off scanners, said that the prettier the lawyer, the more sensitive the metal detectors became.

SRINAGAR - Two soldiers were killed and six others injured in an explosion inside their vehicle in north Kashmir's Baramulla district Thursday, an army official said.