Fearing a slowdown, Automobile Component Manufacturers Association (ACMA) has urged the government on formulating a 2-3 year "bridge policy" to enable the industry survive the current economic crises. ACMA stressed the government to provide some immediate relief to the auto-component industry to sustain their growth over the next few months to ensure that the momentum built over the last 5 years is continued to meet the vision of the AMP 2016.

The Assam police has detained seven more persons from lower Assam's Nalbari district in connection with the serial blast.

They were being brought to Guwahati for interrogation.

Melbourne, Nov 7: After Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger expressed her love for F1 world champ Lewis Hamilton through music video, the racing driver revealed his affection by taking her home to his family.

Scherzinger, who has been dating the 23-year-old since they met at last year''s MTV Europe Music Awards in Germany, was treated to a tour of Hamilton''s English hometown of Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

The singer enjoyed a traditional British roast dinner with Hamilton''s family to celebrate him being crowned the Formula One World Champion.

London, Nov 7: F1 world champ Lewis Hamilton is planning to spend millions on houses across the world to be with his Pussycat Doll Nicole Sherzinger.

The racing driver is keen to spend time with the singer.

And the 23-year-old says that he is now ready to buy homes in America, Australia and Europe to live with his ladylove.

“I’m very happy and we’re both very very happy with each other. I’m definitely sleeping with a big smile on my face,” the Daily Star quoted him, as saying.

The killing of RSS worker Dhanu Pradhan by un-identified extremists had triggered tension in the riot-hit Kandhamal district once again.

A mob of 2000 tribals gheraoed the Brahmanigaon police station and demanded immediate arrest of the culprits.

All shops and business establishments at Brahmanigaon  and villages near it remained closed.

Meanwhile the district administration has enforced prohibitory orders under section 144 CrPc in the local area as a pre-cautionary measure.

"We don't rule out escalation of violence in view of the murder," Director General of Police Manmohan Praharaj said.

Berlin - Rebels have released the correspondent of a German newspaper who was abducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the German government confirmed Friday.

Thomas Scheen, 43, the Belgian-born correspondent of the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), was taken captive by Mai-Mai militias in the eastern part of Congo on Tuesday.

The German foreign ministry said Scheen and his two local assistants were safely in the hands of the UN peacekeeping force MONUC.

The FAZ said Wednesday that Scheen was seized after he "got caught between the fronts" in the eastern Congo region.