Ottawa, Oct 24 : After 15 months in sanctuary, paralysed would-be refugee claimant Laibar Singh has decided to leave an Abbotsford Sikh temple and return to India to be with his family.

Kalgidhar Darbar temple president Swarn Singh Gill said Singh is stressed and worn out by the struggle to remain in Canada and thinks it is better to go home.

“He is thinking the border services are going to put him in jail. He is thinking he will never be allowed to stay in Canada. All these things are running around in his mind all the time,” Gill said on Thursday.

So Singh, who has mounted a lengthy and controversial battle against the Canada Border Services Agency, has now informed his lawyer, Peter Edelmann, that he will leave Canada voluntarily.

The 30-share index, BSE Sensex, lost more than 700 points soon after the announcement of credit policy review by the central bank.

Metals, banks and realty stocks were hammered badly.

The central bank kept the Bank Rate unchanged at 6% in its mid-term review of the annual statement on monetary policy for the year 2008-09.

Meanwhile, repo rate was also kept steady at 8%, to judge the impact of a heavy, surprise cut earlier this week to suppress the financial system from the worldwide financial crisis.

Beijing - The prime ministers of China and Japan on Friday pledged to cooperate in maintaining stability in the face of the global financial crisis.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso held talks amid a series of bilateral meetings before a summit of Asian and European leaders in Beijing on Friday and Saturday.

Wen told Aso that the two nations should have "more policy dialogue and coordination to maintain stability in the financial markets," the Chinese foreign ministry reported.

Cooperation between China and Japan in the face of the international financial crisis was "vital for the stability of Asia," the ministry quoted Wen as saying.

Washington, Oct 24 : China’s decision to supply two nuclear power plants to Pakistan is a fall out of the recently concluded Indo-US civil nuclear deal, say South Asia experts in the US.

According to them, the Indo-US N-deal is “prompting” other countries in “volatile region” South Asia to seek a similar deal, something the US had said would not happen.

If the beginning of this week had the former Secretary of State, Colin L. Powell, announcing his endorsement of Obama, the end of the week has former White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, going Obama’s way too.

The accomplished Bush loyalist no more who has an uncanny knack for dropping bombshells, did it this time around with his tell-all book about life and lies in President Bush’s inner circle. The book has McClellan bashing his former bosses in the Bush administration.

McClellan’s declaration of Obama endorsement, taped for a new weekend CNN show, “D.L. Hughley Breaks the News,” comes through his dramatic statement that he has a favorite in the presidential election, and “it is not John McCain.”

Washington, Oct 24 : Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama holds a 13-point lead over Republican rival John McCain, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows.

Obama now leads McCain 52 percent to 39 percent among likely voters nationwide, roughly the same lead he held last week. Just five percent are undecided, and more than 9 in 10 of each candidate''s supporters say their mind is made up.