Washington, Dec. 6: Inflamed passions across India and Pakistan must be controlled to prevent another war between India and Pakistan.

“People of both the nations will have to control inflamed public passion and manipulative politicians too,” Austin Bay reports in his column for the Washington Post.

“Statesmen will have to confront the terrorists responsible for the heinous crime,”Bay comments.

Large scale public anger can be witnessed across India after the deadliest terror attack to have ever hit India, shook Mumbai last week.

There are fears that India could attack Pakistan and Indian and Pakistani media reflect this speculation in their war of words.

Badgam (J-K), Dec 6: In the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, the authorities have beefed up security in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of the fourth phase of the seven-phased assembly polls in the region.

Eighteen constituencies are going to polls on Sunday in the state.

Personnel of the paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) have been deployed in the region to ensure free and fair polls.

A total of 107 companies of BSF have been deployed in the regions going to polls on Sunday.

Following the Mumbai terror attacks the BSF has pulled out all stops to prevent any untoward incident during the polls.

Washington, Dec 6 : Oprah Winfrey has slammed Sarah Palin after the failed Republican vice-presidential candidate snubbed offers to appear on the chat queen’s show.

While Palin did make an appearance on other U. S. hosts Greta Van Susteren, Matt Lauer and Larry King’s shows to talked about her unsuccessful bid to reach the White House, but she ignored ‘The Oprah Show’ despite being invited.

The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the superintendent of Presidency jail to provide a complete report on the medical condition of Todi report before Monday, when the bail appeal would be heard again.

Ashok Todi was admitted to the jail hospital since he was remanded to judicial custody by a city court on December 1 following his surrender on a Supreme Court directive.

New Delhi - Two men suspected of providing some of the phone cards used by the Mumbai attackers were arrested and being questioned in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, news reports said Saturday.

Times of India online news reported that Tausif Rehman was arrested in Kolkata, while Mukhtar Ahmed Sheikh was arrested in Delhi Friday.

Sheikh, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir, had been living in Kolkata for some time, the report said.

Both men are believed to be part of a racket where more than 20 SIM cards for mobile phones were procured using fake documents in the second week of October, NDTV television channel reported citing police sources.