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.

Johannesburg - A crisis summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to discuss the nearly two-month impasse in Zimbabwe's power-sharing negotiations will be held this weekend in South Africa, the department of foreign affairs confirmed Tuesday.

"It (the summit) will be held Sunday in South Africa," foreign affairs spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Asked if all 15 SADC members would be attending, Mamoepa said, "As far as we're aware, yes."

On the Zimbabwean side, "I'm sure all the political parties that are involved in the negotiations will be invited - (President Robert Mugabe's) Zanu-PF and the two (Movement for Democratic Change) MDC formations," he said.

The ruling BJP in Karnataka has won all the three seats in the bypolls held for the Legislative Council from local bodies constituencies.
This is seen as a crucial victory ahead of by-elections to eight assembly seats of State assembly.

BJP candidates-- former minister Sashikant Akkappa Naik won the Belgaum seat, while Shivraj Sajjanar was declared elected from Dharwad, and S G Medappa from Kodagu.

They all defeated their nearest congress rivals. Though the main opposition Congress got the support of JD (S) but it performed miserably in all the three seats.

JD(S) withdrew its nominees to support Congress candidates.

To join the league of search giants Google and Yahoo, Software giant Microsoft India has rolled out its map services, named Live Search Maps for India.

The latest offering by Microsoft consists of detailed listings and street maps for nine (9) cities, business listings across 29 cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 cities and towns.