Indian tennis star Leander Paes has been nominated as vice-president of the Bengal Tennis Association (BTA).

The decision was taken at the 67th Annual General Meeting of the BTA held at the BTA complex in Kolkata.

"Leander has shown keen interest for the development of tennis in the state. So, we have included him in the BTA top management keeping in mind the interest of the game," said BTA secretary Hironmoy Chatterjee.

Chatterjee was re-elected to the post this time also.

Sushil Mehrotra was elected the president.

Former Gujarat chief minister Chhabildas Mehta passed away on Saturday at SAL hospital in Ahmedabad. He was 84.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has cancelled his four-day visit to Hong Kong as he continued with his deliberations with political leaders over the fallout of Wednesday's Mumbai attacks, an official said.

Gilani was scheduled to leave for the Asia meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, which is starting Tuesday.

The prime minister cancelled his trip in the wake of the situation emerging from the terrorist strikes in Mumbai, Zahid Bashir, press secretary of the Pak PM said.

As many as 62 percentage voters exercised their franchise in 3rd phase of polling in J&K despite boycott call by separatist's and bad weather condition.

Five constituencies of Kupwara district went to poll on Sunday in third phase.

Karnah recorded a turnout of 73 percent, the highest among the five segments in the third phase of polling in Jammu and Kashmir which was by and large peaceful, official sources said.

In Kupwara constituency, 60 of votes were cast with Karanah witnessing the highest turnout of 65.37.

Tripura police has decided to set up a full-fledged anti terrorist squad (ATS). This is a move to counter the growing threat perception in the North-Eastern hilly state.

Two contingents of paramilitary, Tripura State Rifles (TSR) personnel would be sent to Delhi to undergo rigorous training in the elite National Security Guards (NSG) Centre in December and February next, an official told.

"The NSG authority has already agreed to train the selected TSR jawans in two batches", he said adding handling of high- power explosives and sniffer dogs and modern weapons would be focused during the training.

RJD, a key constituent of