Singapore - An India-based group with interests in the information-communication technology sector is setting up its global headquarters in Singapore, armed with a 
200-million-US-dollar war chest, news reports said Friday.

The city-state was picked because of its proximity to the fast- growing "Israel-to-Indonesia" market, The Business Times quoted Spice Corp Chairman BK Modi as saying.

Jammu, Aug 14 : At least ten migrant labourers were killed when a truck skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway today.

According to police, the ill-fated truck which was on its way from Srinagar to Jammu, skidded off the road while negotiating a curve at Anokhi fall near Battery Chashma in Ramban district early this morning.

The labourers are reported to have boarded the truck at Qazi gund and Lower Munda for their journey to Jammu and then onwards to Bihar.

Srinagar, Kashmir - One person was killed and three injured as an Indian paramilitary force fired on protestors Thursday in the heart of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's northern Jammu and Kashmir state, officials and witnesses said.

The gunfire broke a brief early morning calm after a night that saw thousands of people defying a curfew and rallying after local television reports said security forces had stormed houses and beat up residents, including women.

At least 23 people - all Muslims - have been killed in the region over the past three days and more than 400 injured as security forces attempted to break up demonstrations over a land row that took an anti-Indian turn.

Wagah Aug. 14 : Border guards of India and Pakistan today exchanged sweets and congratulated each other on the occasion of 61st anniversary of Pakistan’s Independence Day.

"We accept your greeting and with the grace of god will wish you on your Independence Day tomorrow," said Brigadier Qasir Khan Tareen, Deputy Director-General, Pakistan Rangers. 

Pakistanis in India also celebrated the 61st anniversary of their independence from the British colonial rule on Thursday.

New Delhi - At least seven children drowned and 19 others were missing Thursday after their school bus fell into a river in Mangalore, a coastal district of the southern Indian state Karnataka, news reports said.

More than 30 people, most of them children, were in the bus when it plunged into the Phalguni river about 270 kilometres west of the state capital Bangalore after the driver lost control, PTI and IANS news agencies reported.

Fourteen people had been rescued and admitted to hospitals in Mangalore town, the police said.