New Delhi, Mar 7 : India''s paramilitary, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), has decided to give 150 companies to provide security for the upcoming national elections.

Addressing a news conference in national capital New Delhi, CISF Director General N R Das said the force they are providing to various states is as per the guidelines of the Election Commission of India.

New Delhi, Mar 7 : The commando style terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore clearly tells the world how the terror outfits have a free run in Pakistan. How else could the perpetrators of the attack on the cricketers walk away so easily without being challenged?

The events made it clear that anyone wanting a guarantee for security in Pakistan should include the terror groups in the negotiations. The events have made it clear we are living with a dangerous neighbour.

New Delhi/Mumbai, Mar. 7 : In separate instances, Home Minister P Chidambaram and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee have said that Pakistan faced the threat of becoming a "failed state."

New Delhi - At least four suspected Muslim rebels were killed in a gun battle with security forces in India's northeastern state of Manipur early on Saturday, a news report said.

A police spokesman told the IANS news agency that the encounter between a joint police team and paramilitary and a group of militants belonging to the outlawed People's United Liberation Front (PULF) took place on the outskirts of the state capital Imphal.

New Delhi, Mar 7 : Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has said that Presidnet Hu Jintao will meet his American counterpart Barack Obama during the London G-20 meeting in April.

Yang made the remarks while meeting domestic and overseas journalists on the sidelines of the annual parliament session at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Kolkata/New Delhi, Mar 7 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has blamed the Central Government for what they termed as a failure to check flow of illegal migrants from Bangladesh.

Addressing a election rally in Kolkata, BJP prime ministerial candidate L. K. Advani said, "Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants enter West Bengal from Bangladesh and even the Supreme Court has said that what is happening in the eastern part is nothing less than external aggression and because this government abolished laws that deftly handle it, all this is getting encouraged."