SALEM: A pro-Tamil outfit leader, who was arrested in connection with throwing of a burning wooden log inside the I-T office premises here on Oct 30, has been detained under the National Security Act, police said on Wednesday.

BEIJING: India and China began a 10-day joint anti-terrorism drill on Tuesday. The first such exercise in southwestern China in five years comes days after the two countries signed a border defence cooperation agreement during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Beijing.

NEW DELHI: Marlon Samuels reached his 19th Test half-century in the second over after lunch on the first day of the first Test against India at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Wednesday.

KOLKATA: Talented India batsman Rohit Sharma on Wednesday made his long-awaited debut in the five-day format of the game in the first Test against West Indies, getting his coveted cap from none other than Sachin Tendulkar who is playing in his farewell series.

Namaskar India! Through this column I will be with you during West Indies' tour of India. I hope we enjoy what promises to be a historic series between two great cricketing nations: India and the West Indies.

Kota / Keshvraypatn . Sinta Keshvraypatn Road, near the village of Chambal going through Kapren branch of the left main canal bike Monday night, including a young man fell . The event is discovered, the villagers started looking for him .

Kota . Mahavir Nagar police station in the lock of an accused's condition suddenly worsened late Monday night . Critical condition after being told by doctors one time was the police 's breath flowers . Although MBS hospital Tuesday morning after the operation status of the accused is out of danger .

LONDON: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, two former editors of Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid, were having an affair at the time their reporters are accused of hacking into phones, a court heard on Thursday.

SYDNEY: China and Southeast Asian governments demanded an explanation from the US and its allies on Thursday following media reports that American and Australian embassies in the region were being used as hubs for Washington's secret electronic data collection programme.

WASHINGTON: Enrollment in health insurance plans on the troubled Obamacare website was very small in the first couple of days of operation, with just 248 Americans signing up, according to documents released on Thursday by a US House of Representatives committee.