Former Chief Minister of J&K and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad filed his nomination papers from Bhaderwah constituency. He filed his papers on the last day of nominations on Saturday for the sixth phase of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

Elections for sixth phase will be held on December 17.

A record number of 321 candidates including another former Chief Minister and PDP Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed are in the fray from 16 constituencies going to polls in the sixth phase.

In a meeting on Saturday, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G. Madhavan Nair along with International space researchers and experts condemned the terror attack on Mumbai, describing it as "very unfortunate".

Upset over widespread charges of involvement of Pakistan in the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi cut short his four-day visit to India.

He left for Islamabad on Saturday morning.

Qureshi was scheduled to meet Leader of Opposition L K Advani, at 10.30 am on Saturday. But this appointment was cancelled due to a cabinet meeting in Islamabad later in the day.

Three Border Security Force (BSF) personnel were shot dead by Separatist guerrillas in Dhalai district of Tripura on Saturday.

A lobourer was also killed in the same incident.

"The BSF men (77 Battalion) were guarding those working on the India-Bangladesh border fencing being constructed by NPCC when they got ambushed," police spokesman Mayajoy Rupini said.

The dead worker belonged to the National Project Construction Co (NPCC).

The police has blamed the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) for the killings.

The 34th National Games to be held in Jharkhand have been further postponed and will now be held on Feb 15-28.

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) earlier postponed the Games at the request of National Games Organising Committee (NGOC) as Jharkhand failed to develop the infrastructure in time for the Dec 1-13 event.

"The National Games date has been extended as the necessary infrastructure was not ready. The IOA has accepted the request to extend the dates and the games will take place in February," Jharkhand Sports Minister Bandhu Tirkey said.

President Pratibha Patil on Saturday decided to cut short her five-day tour to Indonesia by two days.

She will pay a visit to terror-struck Mumbai on 2nd December.

President will return to Mumbai on 1st December after completing her scheduled official engagements in the South-East Asian country.

The President, who hails from Maharashtra, will go to Mumbai the next day. There the President will take stock of the situation and visit the injured in the worst-ever terror attack on India, said an official.