Taipei - Police detained a Taiwan woman Tuesday for joking that there was a bomb in her hand luggage.

The woman, identified only by her surname Wu, was preparing to fly from Tuesday afternoon Taipei to Singapore on a Singaporean Airlines flight at the Taoyuan International Airport.

After she had boarded the plane, an air hostess helped her put her carry-on luggage into the overhead bin and quipped: "It seems kind of heavy. What's inside?"

"There is a bomb inside," Wu joked.

The air hostess called the flight captain who ordered Wu and her luggage removed from the plane for security checks.

Podgorica - Montenegrin authorities aim to hold early elections in March, local media reported Tuesday.

The government asked the Parliament to shorten its mandate and thus make way for the president Filip Vujanovic to call for early elections on March 29, daily Vijesti reported.

The government said that Montenegro faces numerous and important decisions in a process of joining the European Union and that this process needs to be implemented fully "by the organs and institutions and especially the government and parliament with full four year mandate".

Tata Teleservices Ltd. (TTSL) is all set to merge its tower infrastructure business with tower company Quippo Telecom in a bid to deliver more efficient telecom infrastructure services. The merger would make the new entity as the second largest firm in terms of number of towers across India with 18,000 towers.

Quippo Telecom will hold 49 per cent in the new entity with full management control while Tata Teleservices would hold remaining shares in Wireless-TT Info-Services Ltd

New Delhi - Ten million people working in India's export sector will be out of their jobs by March as markets shrink further due to global recession, news reports said Tuesday.

"There will be 10 million job losses by March," A Sakthivel, president of the Federation of Indian Export Organizations was quoted as saying by PTI news agency.

Indian export-oriented industries, which account for about 22 per cent of the country's gross domestic product, are highly labour-intensive and employ an estimated 150 million people.

The Union Telecom and Communications Ministry has declined the proposal of Finance Ministry to double the floor price for 3G and wireless broadband spectrum. Finance Ministry had recommended prices of pan-India 3G spectrum prices at Rs 4,040 crore and WiMAX prices at Rs 2,020 crore..

Beirut - Lebanon has informed Damascus of its readiness to begin demarcating the border between the two countries, local radio broadcasters reported Tuesday.

Border demarcation was one of the demands of United Nations Security Council resolutions, which ended a 33-day war between Israel and Hizbullah in the summer of
2006.

Additionally, UN officials say demarcation is necessary to combat cross-border smuggling.

"The Voice of Lebanon" radio station said that intensive global efforts would be launched "to pressure Syria into facilitating border demarcation with Lebanon."