Motorola has rolled out its hand-sculpted mobile phone named ‘AURA’, which is priced at Rs 1,11,492.

Targeted at trend-setter Indian, the new luxury and stylish handset was launched by Bollywood superstar and Motorola’s brand ambassador Abhishek Bachchan in Mumbai on Friday.

Junior Bachchan presented the first ‘Aura’ to ace fashion designer Manish Malhotra.

New Delhi, Mar 1 : Indian Premier League Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi on Sunday lost the Rajasthan Cricket Association elections held for the post of President to Sanjay Dixit, an Indian Administrative Services officer.

Required to get 17 votes to secure a win in the election with majority, Modi could manage just 13 of the total 32 votes. Dixit, on the other hand, bagged 18 votes.

New Delhi  - FBI Director Robert Mueller will be travelling to India to boost counter-terrorism cooperation between the two countries and hold discussions in connection with the November Mumbai attacks, a news report said Sunday.

Mueller is expected to arrive on Tuesday amid growing cooperation between the Indian and US intelligence agencies after the Mumbai assault carried out by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, which left over 170 people dead.

A major outcome of the collaboration has been tracking of telephone calls made by attackers from Mumbai to their alleged handlers in Pakistan.

New Delhi  - At least 11 people were killed and 16 injured when a train rammed into a bus at an unmanned railway crossing in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, police said Sunday.

The accident occurred in the Budaun district, 260 kilometres north of state capital Lucknow, on Saturday evening.

"Nobody in the train was injured. Four bus passengers were killed on the scene while others succumbed to the injuries later at nearby hospitals," local police chief Durgesh Mishra said over telephone.

Srinagar, Mar 1: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has sought the cooperation of the European Union (EU) to address the increasing unemployment problem in this state.

Abdullah, who held talks with a delegation of the European Commission led by Daniele Smadja on Saturday, asked for a closer partnership with the union in the development of Small and Medium Entreprises sector in the state.

New Delhi, Mar. 1 : If the Indo-US civil nuclear deal has strained New Delhi''s relation with Tehran, It is the Obama regime in Washington which can bring the two civilisational friends together once again.

As Obama shifts the entire focus of its war on terror to the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, a part of the new strategy will be to involve neighboring Iran in solving the morass.

Officials of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) believe that Washington knows that New Delhi shares an excellent relation with Iran, and therefore, it could ask the Indian Government to use its influence to pursue Iran to cooperate and end its uranium enrichment exercise.