Belgaum (Karnataka), Dec 6 : The spirit of "Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai" was rekindled here when the 137-member Chinese Army contingent in India for a joint anti-terror exercise stunned their Indian counterparts when they sang with great respect and honour India''s national anthem.
Around 90 soldiers of the 1st company of the infantry battalion of the Chengdu Military Area Command stood in line and sang "Jana Gana Mana" in unison, surprising Indian Army personnel during the official banquet hosted here at Maratha Light Infantry Regimental Centre here on Friday.
London, Dec. 6 : Indian police and government officials have said that they are likely to give the lone surviving terrorist behind last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai truth serum to make him spill the beans on the entire operation, but experts familiar with the drug and its uses, are skeptical about the results.
During police interrogations, Ajmal Amir Kasab has claimed that he hails from Faridkot in Pakistan’s Punjab Province and that he was trained with the Pakistan-based extremist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
New Delhi, December 6 : The Chinese minister of the State Council Information Office, Wang Chen, has revealed that the Internet is being misused to spread rumours by most of the users.
He said so while delivering a speech during the 8th Forum on Internet Media of China in Chongqing on Friday, through which he urged the country’s online media to help foster a society of integrity and honesty.
Chen’s speech unveiled 10 "worrying trends" in the Chinese online community.
While ‘spreading rumours’ topped the list, exaggeration of news came in second.
New Delhi - India and China began the second phase of joint military exercises Saturday, focusing on ant-terrorism training in the southern Indian town of Belgaum.
The exercise code-named Hand-in-Hand 2008 is aimed at expanding and strengthening ties between the two countries' armed forces, an Indian Defence Ministry release said.
The first joint military exercise was held in China's Kunming in October 2007.
India and China fought a bitter war in 1962 over disputed territory, and the current joint military exercise is the first to be conducted on Indian soil.
The Chinese Army has sent a 137-strong contingent for the drill which will include joint tactical manoeuvres and joint command post procedures.
Islamabad - Nuclear-armed Pakistan edged to the brink of war with India when its president received a threatening call from someone posing as Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee following last week's Mumbai attacks, a media report said Saturday.
The caller, who was put through to President Asif Ali Zardari late in the day on November 28 without verification of his claimed identity, warned that India would take "military action if Islamabad failed to immediately act against the supposed perpetrators of the Mumbai killings."