Kolkata, Dec 6 : Kolkata police has unearthed a massive mobile SIM card racket in the city following disclosures from Mumbai that two SIM cards used by terrorists in the Mumbai attacks were from this metropolis.

The Kolkata police have arrested a Kolkata resident Tauseef Rehman and a Srinagar resident Mukhtar Ahmed Sheikh in connection with the SIM card racket. They were produced at Bankshall City Civil and Sessions Court today and remanded to police custody till December 14.

Lucknow, Dec 6 : As a mark of protest against the Mumbai terror attacks, Muslims here have decided to tone down celebrations on the occasion of Eid al-Adha.

Muslim organizations and bodies have urged the Muslims to observe Eid-ul-Azha that falls on December 9 this year.

Denouncing the Mumbai attacks, the Muslim clerics have asked people to take part in sermons ahead of the festive prayer offerings.

Jaipur, Dec 6 : Re-polling will be held in Rajasthan on December 7 instead of December 6 as announced earlier by the Election Commission, official sources said here today.

The Chief Electoral Office had announced in Jaipur on Friday that re-polling would be held in about three dozen polling booths in the districts of Ajmer, Bharatpur, Bhilwara, Dausa, Dholpur, Jaipur, Jhalawar, Kota and Sawaimadhopur.

The respective returning officers announced re-polling after getting complaints of rigging, EVM malfunctioning, and booth capturing during polling on Thursday.

Mumbai, Dec. 6 : There was one amazing escape from Nariman House in Mumbai last week at the height of the confrontation between terrorists and the security forces.

That escape was of Sandra Samuel, a nanny employed by an Israeli couple to look after their two-year-old son.

Moshe Holtzberg will ultimately be ever grateful to Sandra for saving his life, but Sandra herself will be sad that she couldn’t get his parents mother Rivka, and his father, Rabbi Gaby Holtzberg out alive.

New Delhi , Dec. 6 :The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its bid to help out the ailing economy has announced a string of measures , including a one percent point cut in short-term rates (repo rate) at which it lends and borrows from banks.

It also decided to pump in an additional of Rs 11,000 crore to help the realty and small industry sectors.

A total of Rs 3,00,000 crores has been infused into the system, since October this financial year.

Kolkata, Dec 6 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has announced Rs. 95 crore package for the infrastructure development of Kolkata’s Viswa-Bharati University.

The Prime Minister announced the package while addressing the 37th convocation of Viswa-Bharati University in Santiniketan in Birbhum district of Kolkata today.

He said the government would strive to ensure that all Indians get a chance to complete his education.

Dr. Singh also said that the government would do everything possible to build the education infrastructure in the country.