LONDON: Pakistan could launch a nuclear strike on India within eight seconds, claimed an army general in Islamabad in 2001, a warning that is described in the latest volume of diaries by a key aide of the UK's former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Beijing: China will send its first woman into space when an airforce pilot joins a three-member team of astronauts on the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft which blasts off tomorrow.

HYDERABAD: Faced with Saina Nehwal's continued persistence, the Chinese seem to be wilting. The 22-year-old world No. 5 yet again proved a thorn in China's flesh as she wore down former All-England champion Shixian Wang 21-17, 21-23, 21-19 in an energy-sapping quarterfinal of the Djarum Indonesia Super Series Premier in Jakarta on Friday.

BANGALORE: Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are officially India's doubles entry for the London Olympics, but it's by no means certain that they will actually turn up as a team there. Even as All India Tennis Association general secretary Anil Khanna made the eagerly awaited announcement on Friday, saying the pair was the 'unanimous choice', Bhupathi told a TV channel that the pairing was 'the worst possible in the interest of the country.'

Kota. Fetal tests and female feticide campaign to stop adding to the general public in the administration also announced the prize. The award of a daughter would be saving a million.

Rawatbhata.MLA Om Birla, Bwanisinh Rajawat Chunilal guard led by former minister and a large number Kshetrwasion Aapeepi marched to the foot. Half-day put off the establishment of town businessmen supported the movement.

New Delhi/Patna, June 15 : Former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam is fast emerging as the choice of NDA for the post of President, but the moot question is: whether Kalam himself is agreeable to contest for the coveted post.
In 2007, Dr Kalam had emphatically said that he would be agreeable to become president again, only if there was a consensus, but the ruling Congress opted for Pratibha Patil, and in the ensuing contest she defeated NDA's candidate the late Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.

Kolkata: In a bizarre case, woman athlete Pinki Pramanik, who won a gold medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, has been detained by the West Bengal police for torturing and attempting to rape a woman.

China  : A photo showing a foetus whose mother was forced to have an abortion has shocked China web users.

Beijing: A 84-year-old Chinese man, who started to wear women's clothes and took hormones to enlarge his breasts four years ago, now wants to undergo sex change surgery at this ripe age.