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Kolkata, Sept.27 : The West Bengal CPI(M) leadership is in a spot of bother over the recent death of a Muslim youth in the city under mysterious circumstances.

Opposition parties like Trinamul Congress and the Congress have already started a political campaign against the ruling Marxists, holding a section of Kolkata police responsible for the youth’s death.

Kabul, Sep 27 : Two foreign employees of the International Red Cross have been abducted in Wardak province in southern Afghanistan.

The area police chief General Ewaz Muslimyar said that the two were kidnapped along with their two Afghan drivers while travelling in Salar district.

The Red Cross office in Kabul has not yet commented on the report.

The number of kidnappings has soared in Afghanistan where foreign and Afghan troops are battling Taliban insurgents.

Washington, Sept 27 : Scientists at Yale University have achieved two major steps towards putting quantum computers into real practice – sending a photon signal on demand from a qubit onto wires, and transmitting the signal to a second, distant qubit.

Over the past several years, the research team of Robert Schoelkopf and Steven Girvin have explored the use of solid-state devices resembling microchips as the basic building blocks in the design of a quantum computer.

Islamabad, Sept.27 : Former Supreme Court judge, Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed, today filed his nomination for the October 6 presidential poll.

Justice Ahmed, 68, was the only Supreme Court judge who refused to swear allegiance to Musharraf after his 1999 coup. He was asked to resign from his post. Had he been a part of the Supreme Court bench, he would have become the country's Chief Justice.

New Delhi, Sept. 27 : Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi will lead an Indian delegation to Budapest, Hungary.

During her visit, she will inaugurate the “International Conference cum Exhibition on Ayurveda, Ancient System of Holistic Medicine from India” on Saturday.

Besides, she will also have bilateral meetings with officials of Health Insurance Fund, National Institute of Pharmacy, Debrecon University and Business Environment European team in Brussels.

New Delhi, Sept. 27 : More than 150 representatives from 15-20 countries including USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, and UK will participate in the International Railway Safety Conference (IRSC), scheduled to be held in Goa from October 1.

The five-day conference is being hosted by the Indian Railways and the Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd.

The conference is an annual event which will be attended by railway safety managers, safety regulators and accident investigating agencies from all over the world.