British Scientists at the Oxford Brookes University are studying the hard hair strands, claimed to be taken from a Yeti like creature found in the west Garo Jungles of Meghalaya in north-east India.

The hair were given to BBC by Dipu Marak, who is a passionate Yeti believer. He retrieved the hair from a site in dense jungle after an ape like creature called Mande Barung, was seen by a forester for three days in a row in 2003.

According to Marak, the creature is about 3m (nearly 10ft) tall and around 300kg (660lbs) in weight. He believes that the creature is herbivorous.

Mumbai, July 27 : The Navi Mumbai Police today raided an apartment in Navi Mumbai after a 14-page e-mail was sent to select TV channels from that area by a terror group named as “Indian Mujahidden” just minutes before the serial blasts took place in Ahmedabad last night.

In the email the terror outfit claimed responsibility for the blasts and called it a revenge for the Gujarat riots in 2002 following the Godhra carnage killing 52 Hindus.

About the email, a senior official from Mumbai’s Anti Terrorism Squad said, “We are investigating whether the e-mail was sent from a residence. Presently, personal verifications of the persons living there are being carried out and it would be too premature to comment on it.”

Kapurthala, July 27 : Former president Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam will visit Kali Bein in Punjab’s Kapurthala District today, to participate in the concluding function to mark the eighth anniversary of ‘kar sewa’ of the holy river.

This will be his second visit to the Kali Bein. Earlier, recognizing Baba Seechewal''s relentless service to clean the Bein, he visited the holy river two years ago.

Kali Bein is sacred to the Sikhs for its association with Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism.

Washington, July 26 : A University of Illinois economist has said that America’s energy shortage problems have been stretched thin by a surging demand for the product from India, China and other developing countries.

Scott Irwin, an agricultural and consumer economics professor at the university said that in the light of this development, there is a need for Americans to engage in debate on how to bring down gasoline prices and use their energy resources more profitably.

He told a House Committee that congressional efforts to curb trading by speculators is a "misguided witch hunt" that ignores the root of America''s energy problem.

Bangalore, July 26 : Definite leads have emerged from Friday''s eight bomb explosions in Bangalore in which one person -- an old woman - was killed and several were injured, said Karnataka''s police chief, R. Srikumar, on Saturday.

Karnataka''s Director-General of Police and Inspector General of Police Srikumar said the investigations on the bomb blasts is progressing fast and the police has got definite clues about the people involved in the cowardly act.

New Delhi  - Police in India's southern city of Bangalore Saturday said the eight bombs that hit the city a day earlier were "professionally assembled" and claimed they had a suspect behind the blasts, media reports said.

According to the Indian Home Ministry, two people were killed and six injured in the low-intensity blasts triggered by timer devices near bus stations and crowded places in Bangalore.

The city, capital of the southern Karnataka state is considered India's information technology capital as many foreign and domestic IT and software firms are based there.