Guwahati , Nov 4 : The Assam Police today released the sketch of a suspect involved in Thursday''s serial blasts that killed over 80 people and left over 300 injured.
According to police, the sketch tallied 77 per cent with the person suspected to be responsible for the explosion at the Deputy Commissioner''s office compound in Kamrup where the Chief Judicial Magistrate''s court is also located.
Bangalore, Nov 4 : Chandrayaan-1, India''s spacecraft mission to moon has entered the Lunar Transfer Trajectory after the fifth and final orbit raising manoeuvre was carried out on Tuesday morning
According to ISRO spokesperson S Satish, "Chandrayaan-1 has entered the lunar transfer trajectory and is heading to an apogee of 3,80,000 KM, expected to happen on Saturday evening, the time at which the lunar orbit insertion manoeuvres are planned to be carried out."
During this manoeuvre the spacecraft''s 440 Newton liquid engine was fired for 145 seconds.
Manila - Four people were killed and more than 40 are missing when a motorized wooden boat sank in the eastern Philippines on Tuesday, police said.
The boat was believed to be carrying some 100 people when the accident occurred off Dimasalang town in Masbate province, 420 kilometres south of Manila.
Fifty-four survivors were rescued from the waters, said Senior Superintendent Reuben Sindac, Masbate provincial police commander.
Sindac said the boat was struck by a sudden gust of wind shortly after leaving the port of Dimasalang, causing it to capsize.
"This was just five kilometres from the shoreline," he said.
Police and local fishermen were helping search for those still missing from the accident.
In a shocking incident a group of drunken Haryana policemen had shot dead a 22-year-old college student returning home on Sunday night.
The youth Kuldeep Kumar, a BA final year student of Vaish College and a resident of Dabra colony, was shot from point blank range.
While Kuldeep was returning on bike from a party at his friend's place, the unruly policemen asked him to stop Tosham Chowk in Bhiwani. But when he did not stop he was shot in the temple with a service revolver.
As the news of fake encounter spread, local residents began pelting stones at the police at Ghantaghar Chowk and set afire a motorcycle.
Kabul - Taliban militants riding on a motorbike killed the deputy intelligence chief of the southern province of Kandahar, while NATO forces killed a senior Taliban commander in the same region, officials said on Tuesday.
Azizullah, who goes by a single name, the deputy provincial intelligence chief, was killed when he was on his way home in the Loy Wala area of Kandahar city on Monday evening, said Abdul Qayoum Katawazi, the provincial chief of intelligence.
He said the attackers, on a motorbike, shot him dead and then escaped the area.
Taliban militants took responsibility for the attack in a statement posted at their website.
Washington, Nov. 4 : An al-Qaeda propagandist who promised endless war against the United States was sentenced to life in prison on Monday by a Guantanamo Bay jury on 35 counts of solicitation to commit murder, providing material support for terrorism and conspiracy.
Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, a 39-year-old Yemeni, was the second person to be convicted by a military jury, the Washington Post reports.
The jury deliberated for four hours before convicting Bahlul and took less than an hour to hand out a life sentence.
Bahlul refused to defend himself at the weeklong trial and instructed his military attorney to remain silent throughout the proceedings, an order that the lawyer said he followed with great reluctance.