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.

New Delhi, Mar 20 : Communist Party of India (CPI) General Secretary A. B. Bardhan has said that Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief Mayawati is a more deserving candidate for the Prime Minister's post than either L. K. Advani or Manmohan Singh.

"Mayawati is more deserving of the Prime Minister's chair than L. K. Advani or Manmohan Singh", Bardhan has told NDTV in an exclusive interview to be aired on Sunday.

New Delhi - Former United Nations diplomat Shashi Tharoor said Thursday he was confident of getting voters from India's southern Kerala state to support him in the upcoming general elections, despite being dubbed an outsider.

Tharoor, 53, a career diplomat with the UN from 1978 until 2007, has been nominated by the Congress Party as its candidate for the constituency of Thiruvananthapuram in the capital Kerala.

New Delhi, Mar 20 : Party workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday gathered outside the residence of senior party leader L K Advani here to press for tickets for the upcoming general elections.

Supporters of Parvesh Verma, son of former Delhi Chief Minister and BJP leader Saheb Singh Verma gathered to request the party for his ticket.

"We want Parvesh to fight Lok Sabha elections from Delhi. We have come here to meet Advani and to request him for his ticket," said Ram Kishan Singh, a party worker.