Blast on railway tracks in Assam
Guwahati: Suspected militants on Friday exploded a bomb on a railway track and damaged a goods train in Assam's Golaghat district, officials said here on Friday.

The bomb, kept on the railway track near Naojan, exploded at 11:45 pm on Thursday night damaging two coaches of the goods train and a part of the railway track.

There was, however, no casualty or injury.
Rail services were disrupted for a few hours but it resumed early this morning.

The ULFA or the Adivasi National Liberation of Assam could be behind the incident as both the outfits are active in the area, they added.

Telangana row: 129 MLAs' resignations rejected
Press Trust of India, Saturday January 30, 2010, Hyderabad
Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kirankumar Reddy has rejected the resignation letters of 129 MLAs, out of 130, submitted to him over the demand of formation of Telangana state. Reddy said he received resignations of 222 members belonging to various parties on Telanagana issue. However, since 92 were withdrawn, 130 letters were pending with him.

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British commissioner in Aizawl
AIZAWL, Jan 30 – British Deputy High Commissioner Sanjay Wadvani yesterday had a tete-a-tete with Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla in the State capital here.

Informing him of various projects and Central developmental programmes being executed in Mizoram, the Chief Minister said that the State Governmnt is pursuing the Kaladan multi-modal project under Look East Policy, setting up of airstrip in southern Mizoram for smooth transportation and communication, border trade with neighbouring countries like Myanmar and Bangladesh.

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Pak: US drone attack kills 15 militants
Press Trust of India, Saturday January 30, 2010, Peshawar
Launching an unprecedented wave of deadly strikes to hit the Haqqani networks, US drones fired missiles at a Taliban hideout in Pakistan's lawless North Waziristan, killing 15 militants as violence surged elsewhere, taking a toll of 12 people on Saturday. Three missiles were fired at a site in Dattakhel area of North Waziristan, where militants groups blamed for launching attacks on a CIA base in Afghanistan are based.

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26/11 trial: Pak govt presents proof against Lakhvi, 6 others

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government today presented evidence before an anti-terrorism court against LeT operations’ chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six
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The government's team of prosecutors presented evidence against the accused in the court of Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan in Rawalpindi, sources said.

The details and nature of the evidence could not immediately be ascertained.

"Following the presentation of evidence, the judge adjourned the matter till February 13," said Shahbaz Rajput, a lawyer for some of the accused. Defence lawyers had boycotted the last hearing on January 23 in protest against the failure of authorities to provide them security and facilitate their meetings with their clients at Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail in line with an order of the Lahore High Court.

Judge Awan is conducting the trial in Adiala Jail for security reasons.

The seven accused - Lakhvi, Zarar Shah, Abu al-Qama, Hamad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younas Anjum - are also being held in Adiala Jail.

They were last year formally charged with planning and helping execute the assault on India's financial hub in November 2008 that killed 166 people.

A Rawalpindi-based division bench of the Lahore High Court this week reserved its decision on a petition filed by Lakhvi seeking his acquittal in the case in the anti-terrorism court.

Lakhvi filed the petition in the High Court to challenge the anti-terrorism court's decision dismissing an earlier plea for acquittal.

Another bench of the Lahore High Court last week dismissed a separate application by Lakhvi seeking the transfer of his trial from the anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi to Lahore.

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