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New Delhi - India expects Pakistan to take action and punish terrorists who attacked the financial hub of Mumbai last November, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday.

Singh told reporters at the launch of the ruling Congress party's election manifesto in New Delhi that diplomatic efforts had succeeded and Pakistan had for the first time admitted that its citizens were involved in the terrorist attacks.

"We expect Pakistan to take the next step and ensure justice is done and culprits are punished," Singh said.

Ramnagar (Uttarakhand), Mar 24 : A self-help group is training rural women in herbal farming and medicines in Uttarakhand to make them self reliant.

Women of the Ramnagar area of Nainital District have joined the Navjyoti self-help group and are being trained in herb farming. They have created a small garden to grow herbs and from these herbs they are making medicines.

The self-help group consists of 19 women where they make various tonics, syrups and herbal oils.

New Delhi, Mar 24 : The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is likely to decide on the venue to host the Indian Premier League (IPL) season two matches by Tuesday night.

Shortly before leaving for Johannesburg on Monday, IPL Chairman Lalit Modi told a news channel in Mumbai, "We need to take a decision by tomorrow, one way or the other and we will have a decision by tomorrow night."

Srinagar, Kashmir - Five Muslim militants and four soldiers were killed as fighting between security forces and rebels hiding in dense forests in India-administered Kashmir entered a fifth day on Tuesday, officials said.

Four troopers succumbed to injuries sustained during combat in the Hafrooda forests in northern Kupwara district on Monday, defence spokesman Lieutenant Colonel JS Brar told reporters.

Five militants were also killed in the clashes on Monday raising the number of slain militants to 11.

Srinagar, March 24 : The death toll in the ongoing gunbattle between militants and security forces inside the Hafrada forest in Jammu and Kashmir''s Kupwara district has risen to 19.

The encounter, which is continuing since March 20, has claimed the lives of 11 militants and eight security personnel.

On Monday, three militants and three security personnel lost their lives.

On receiving information about militant infiltration in the forest area, the Army, assisted by local police acted promptly and launched a gunbattle.