A Taliban suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives blew it up near the Indian embassy in Kabul Thursday morning, killing 17 people and injuring nearly 90 in the second such attack since July 2008.
Afghan cops at the blast site outside the Indian embassy in Kabul. — Reuters photo

Naxals gun down 17 cops in Maharashtra
Gadchiroli, October 8
In a brazen attack, Naxals today ambushed a police patrol party and gunned down 17 policemen here, a day after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram gave a stern warning to the left-wing extremists to abjure violence or face action.

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Anti-Naxal plan okayed

Aravalli mining can go on: SC
* Haryana has to lay down proper rules
* Excavation to be restricted to 600 hectares
New Delhi, October 8
The Supreme Court today granted conditional permission for resumption of mining of minor minerals in the Aravalli region of Faridabad and Palwal after the Haryana government gave an undertaking for termination of all existing mining leases.

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Moily defends move to let off Quattrocchi
Favours opening up legal sector to foreign firms
New Delhi, October 8
Exuding confidence that the proposal to open up the legal sector to foreign law firms will benefit young lawyers, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily today defended the CBI’s decision to withdraw the case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the alleged Bofors payoff.