Marmagao Port (Goa), Oct 18 : The Indian and the US navies are all set to engage each other in war games in the Arabian Sea.

The exercises, which will be undertaken under the recurrent Malabar series of exercises that commenced in 1992, would take place from October 20 in Goa.

Diverse activities ranging from gun-firing and fighter combat operations from aircraft carriers, to combating the scourge of terror, through Maritime Interdiction Operations exercises would be included during the exercises.

New Delhi- Three members of a family in India's north- eastern state of Assam were killed Saturday on suspicion of practicing witchcraft, a news report said Saturday.

The incident took place in the Balipara town in the Sonitpur district 230 kilometres north-east of the main city of Guwahati, the IANS news agency reported.

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Oct 18 : The countdown to the launch of Chandrayaan-1, India’s first unmanned moon mission to be launched on October 22, will start on Monday.

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Associate Director M Y S Prasad said, "The countdown will start on Monday early morning."

On Friday, the spacecraft was moved to the launch pad.

Prasad said that preparatory activities, including checking of various parameters in payloads, to start the countdown are going on.

Aligarh, Oct 18 : Vice President Hamid Ansari today asked Muslims to “seek equity, not concessions” from the government, and said that the community should introspect as a failure to participate in India’s growth story will lead to its marginalisation.

Addressing a gathering of over 500 Aligarh Muslim University alumni from as many as 20 countries, Ansari said the Muslim community should adapt to changing requirements of time and pointed out the need to draw every segment including women into the sphere of education.

Washington, Oct 18 : United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher described the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement as “unique” which cannot be replicated elsewhere as a model.

He further said that the Bush Administration has made it clear that Pakistan cannot be the beneficiary of a similar deal.

United Nations, Oct 18 : India has asked the UN General Assembly to help forge consensus on moving towards non-discriminatory universal nuclear disarmament at a time when the concept is gaining momentum.

India’s delegate to UN Vishvjit P Singh said at the Assembly’s Committee on Disarmament and International Security that New Delhi has consistently attached highest priority to nuclear disarmament.