New Delhi, Dec 7 : In the aftermath of the commando attack on Mumbai -- I refuse to treat it as a terror attack-- a war or words has been unleashed among those who should all have in the first instance protected Mumbai. The whole thing is unseemly. The media too has been dragged into the controversy; next time something similar happens, they want to arm themselves to gag the media?

A nation that does not remember history is bound to suffer. In its heyday, the Mughal Empire, particularly during the reign of Akbar, Jehangir and Shah Jehan, was the richest in the world. The whole world set out to find where India was. That is how so many countries; including the United States were discovered.

Chilyari/Samba Sector/Londi/Hiranagar, Dec 7: Farmers of Kathua district that shares borders with Pakistan said they face a bleak future after relations soured between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai terror strikes.

Although both countries have denied reports about mobilization of troops on their borders, residents of the border areas say that hostilities between the two neighbours cast a shadow on their lives.

Farmers in the region said they feared they would have to abandon their crops if hostilities flared up.

Lucknow/New Delhi, Dec 6 : Muslims of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh observed ''Black Day'' on the 16th anniversary of the demolition of Babri mosque.

Some of the members from the community gathered at a local mosque to give vent to their anguish over the demolition, which happened in 1992.

The main dome of the mosque was mast with a black flag and the forecourt reverberated with the feelings of the speakers.

Chennai, Dec 6 : Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag met school children at a function organised on Saturday to felicitate student sportspersons in Chennai.

The lone Indian to make triple century in test cricket Sehwag, bedecked in a traditional Indian dress which was as flamboyant as his strokes on the fields arrived in the school on a horse driven cart.

Scores of school children greeted him, breaking into long rapturous applause.

Recounting his own schooldays, the maverick batsman expressed happiness on meeting them.

New Delhi - Thousands of football-crazy fans lined the streets of the eastern Indian metropolis Kolkata on Saturday to welcome Diego Maradona, news reports said.

The Argentinian football legend is on a three-day trip to India's football capital to lay the foundation stone of the Indian Football School.

The 48-year-old newly appointed coach of Argentina, who was accompanied by his girlfriend Veronica, seemed pleased though a bit nonplussed by the response of his Indian fans, PTI news agency and NDTV television channel reported.

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.