New Delhi, Mar. 21 : If the growing Sino-Pak cooperation between Pakistan and China and Beijing''s marine encirclement through its "String of Pearls" strategy is causing flutters in New Delhi, South Block mandarins should start an exercise in imaginative diplomacy to prevent the Chinese Dragon from rapidly expanding in India''s eastern neighborhood.

New Delhi  - Mumbai police are seeking the death penalty for the lone gunman captured alive in terrorist attacks on the city in November last year, news reports said Saturday.

Jayant Patil, home minister of Maharashtra state, said police demanded death for Ajmal Amir Kasab, the PTI news agency reported.

Kasab, of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group, will face trial for murder and "waging war against India."

New Delhi, Mar 21 : The Communist Party of India (CPI) released its manifesto for the coming Lok Sabha elections on Saturday.

The party promised a non- BJP and non-Congress alternative at the Centre to carry forward the "glorious" tradition of anti-imperialism and secular polity.

New Delhi, Mar 21 : Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has said Pakistan has failed to probe the involvement of official agencies in the Mumbai attacks.

Taking part in a television programme, Chidambaram said that neither has Islamabad allowed the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the 26/11 attacks, nor did it share any information it may have got from the interrogation of people detained in that country in connection with the attacks.

New Delhi, Mar 20 : Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah has strongly condemned the people supporting war with Pakistan after the Mumbai terror attacks, and said there would not be a single citizen of Pakistan who desire war.

"There are many people who sprout nonsense about carpet bombing the enemy and we have the evidence, let's bomb them. They should take a little trouble to find out what actually happens in war, these guys should be given a gun each and send to the front to fight," Shah told NDTV in an exclusive interview.