The first fast track sessions court judge justice Savithri Vinayaka adjourned the Chitralekha Urs murder case to Wednesday, as three important witnesses failed to appear before the court.

Chitralekha Urs (37), an advocate, was allegedly murdered by her cousin Bharati Urs, daughter of former chief minister Devaraj Urs and two associates in January 2004. 

The court, on Tuesday, was supposed to hear witnesses Nanjundegowda (the Central Crime Branch inspector who had arrested Bharati Urs and her associates), assistant commissioner of police (Cubbon Park) K Jitendranath (police inspector, High Grounds) and MLC Abdul Azeem (then the Investigating Officer), was posted. 

Taipei  - A Taiwanese man was arrested in the robbery of 5,000 Taiwan dollars (143 US dollars) from a computer engineer after leaving his phone number with his victim to demand more money later, local television reports said Wednesday.

The engineer was collecting money at a cash machine in the central county of Taichung Tuesday night when the man threatened him with a knife and robbed him, the cable news network ETTV said.

The recent attacks on Dalits and other backward classes (OBC) is being seen as an attempt by the dominant Maratha caste to suppress the voice of Dalit/other backward classes for having opposed reservations for the Marathas.

In Beed, two women were paraded naked in their village while an activist was brutally beaten up for raising his voice when talking to so-called upper caste leaders. In Parbhani, an old dalit woman was killed over a land dispute and on Tuesday, a young Dalit boy was killed in Aurangabad for allegedly teasing an upper caste girl. 

26/11 proof will be in electronic, videographic & audio modes, as well as in writing

The Mumbai police are expected to file the chargesheet in the 26/11 terror attacks on Wednesday. Even though the police have filed several chargesheets till date, this one is unique. "It has been a multi-dimensional investigation," said a senior Crime Branch officer.

Right from the sophisticated weapons used by the terrorists, the use of global positioning system (GPS), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), satellite phones, the water route used to reach Mumbai and the terror training in Pakistan, the police investigated several aspects of the case. 

Agency chief reveals how US, UK helped probe 26/11

As the Mumbai Police prepare to file a 5,000-page charge-sheet against Mohammed Ajmal Amir aka Kasab and three others on Wednesday, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has given details of how American and British agencies helped Indian investigators during and after the carnage in November to collect evidence and trace the masterminds.

FBI director Robert Mueller, while speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, on Monday, said Indian authorities gave the FBI and other international agencies unprecedented access to evidence and intelligence. FBI agents extracted "fingerprints even from the improvised explosive devices", he said.

Sydney  - A feud between rival Aboriginal families in the remote Australian town of Tennant Creek sparked a street battle among more than 100 people armed with clubs, boomerangs, axes and knives, Northern Territory police said Tuesday.

A 63-year-old woman was airlifted to Alice Springs Hospital after being clubbed.

"We will not tolerate people, under any circumstances, taking the law into their own hands," Superintendent Bruce Porter said.