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Mumbai, Oct 28: Former skipper Dilip Vengsarkar on Monday made a startling revelation about underworld don Dawood Ibrahim entering the Indian team dressing room and offering the players cars if they beat Pakistan in the final of the Sharjah tournament in 1986. Vengsarkar claimed that Dawood had walked into the team’s dressing room a day before the match and offered each player a Toyota car if they

Patna, Oct 28: Making headway in the Patna blasts case, police have arrested two suspected terrorists, including one possibly the mastermind, and detained several others, even as the toll in the serial explosions rose to six. A search operation by NIA and Patna Police is on at Gandhi Maidan, the area which witnessed six of the seven serial bomb blasts on Sunday that left 83 people injured, to

Melbourne, Oct 28: An Air India Dreamliner flight to New Delhi with about 200 passengers on board returned to Melbourne Airport after take off due to a technical snag, officials said today. The Melbourne-Delhi Dreamliner flight experienced some technical difficulties after it took off last night and had to return back to Melbourne where it was fixed, Madhu C Mathen, Manager of Air India (Melbourne

Patna, Oct 28: People thrash a man whom the police detain and take away for questioning after a bomb blast outside the venue of BJP's Hunkar rally in Patna on Sunday. Making headway in the Patna bomb blasts probe, police have arrested the prime accused involved in the serial blasts that left five persons dead. "One of the accused, who is being considered as the mastermind, has been arrested till

Ahmedabad, Oct 28: A local court is likely to pronounce its order on Monday on Zakia Jafri's petition against closure report of Supreme Court-appointed SIT, giving clean chit to chief minister Narendra Modi and others regarding their role in the 2002 riots. Arguments on Jafri's petition by her lawyers and the Special Investigation Team's (SIT) counsel had continued for five months in the court of

Ranchi, Oct 28: Police held an unidentified man after serial bomb blasts took place at the venue of BJP's Hunkar rally in Patna on Sunday. Three suspects were detained last night by Jharkhand Police during a raid here in connection with the serial blasts in Patna that killed five people and left 83 injured. "Based on the tip-off by Bihar police, we raided a place at Dhurva (area of the city) and

Patna, Oct 27: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said there was no intelligence input regarding the serial blasts in Patna. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Sunday said there was no intelligence input, either from the central or state government regarding the serial blasts in the state capital Sunday. Addressing a press conference here, he said the state provided adequate security for Bharatiya

Bhopal, Oct 27: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh has said it would be much better if RSS "sheds the garb of being a cultural organisation" and enters full time into politics. He said RSS had been recently active in ensuring that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was named as BJP's prime ministerial nominee. "If this is not politics, then I do not know what is," he said. The Congress

New York, Oct 27: Narendra Modi, BJP's prime ministerial candidate, cannot hope to lead India effectively if he inspires "fear" and "antipathy" among many of its people, the New York Times has commented in an unusual move. "Mr Modi has shown no ability to work with opposition parties or tolerate dissent," the Editorial Board of the New York Times said in a stinging editorial on the 63-year-old BJP

Patna, Oct 27: Five people were killed and 66 injured in six serial bomb blasts near the venue of BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally in Patna on Sunday minutes before he reached there to address a huge gathering. Hours before the multiple explosions, a crude bomb went off in a newly constructed toilet at the Patna railway station, two km from the BJP's 'Hunkar rally' venue. Five