Authorities have imposed curfew in Srinagar to avoid proposed march by separatist groups to the Jamia Mosque in the old city.

"Curfew is in force throughout the city and no violations of the law would be allowed," a senior police officer said.

Educational institutions, business establishments and banks remained closed in the city after the prohibitory orders were clamped.

The separatist group led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq had earlier called for a march to grand mosque in the old city, but the authorities did not allow them to do so.

They were demanding for boycott of assembly polls scheduled to be held on December.

Beijing - Helicopters have dropped emergency supplies to isolated villages cut off for up to 10 days by landslides that killed at least 43 people and left 46 missing in mountainous areas of south-western China's Yunnan province, the government said Friday.

Three military helicopters began the drops on Thursday in the worst-hit prefecture of Chuxiong, delivering emergency food, water, clothes, tents and bedding, the provincial civil affairs bureau said.

The death toll across the province had risen to 43, with 46 listed as missing and 29 injured, the bureau reported on its website.

Hanoi - Vietnamese economy experts and business people said Friday that a 6.5-per-cent growth target set by the government for the country's gross domestic product for 2009 may be unreasonably high.

Vietnam's National Assembly approved the 6.5 per cent target on Thursday.

"It is our administrative responsibility to try our best to reach the target," said Deputy Minister of Trade Nguyen Thanh Bien, who is responsible for exports. "But looking at it from the point of view of an economist, or an entrepreneur, I must say it is difficult to reach."

London, Nov 7 : Going by her raunchy poses and bare all photo shoots, it would be a bit shocking to know that model Katie Green is not kinky enough to embrace today’s saucy sexcapades.

After being snapped up by channel Five to star in Generation Sex, Green confessed to have been shocked after she heard her mates and some teenagers reveal their kinky bed room games.

Posing for this new shoot in just her knickers and stilettos, the Ultimo beauty admitted that she might not be so experimental in bed.

“I had to give my opinions on how sex has changed in the nineties and naughties,” the Sun quoted her, as saying.

Washington, Nov 7: The victory of Barack Obama has confused the Islamic jihadists’ world, as they are yet to decide how to react to it. Many of them never expected a black to win the poll, reported the New York Daily News.

The first major statement aimed at Obama came yesterday from a nationalist insurgent group in Iraq, who extended a “barbed” olive branch to Obama, who during his election campaign had promised to withdraw US troops from Iraq after assuming the White House.

But, other terrorists were seen divided. “Now is the time for a truce,” an Iraqi jihadi in an Al Qaeda-linked chatroom said.