Tel Aviv - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak ordered the crossing points into the Gaza Strip to be shut Thursday, after militants in the salient fired a Qassam rocket at southern Israel.

The rocket, fired from the north of the strip toward the nearby Israeli town of Sderot, caused neither damage nor injuries, an Israeli military spokesman said.

Militants had also fired a rocket on Thursday, causing Barak to take a similar decision regarding the crossing points.

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BJP leader, Kirit Somaiya demanded enquiry into the role of the regulators and the finance ministry in the recent crash in the stock markets in India.

Patna / New Delhi, Oct 30: Leaders cutting across political lines have flayed the lynching of a migrant youth, belonging to Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district, by miscreants on a local train in Maharashtra on Tuesday.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar condemned the attack saying that those guilty should be immediately tried and punished.

“Those who are guilty should be identified and should be punished after a speedy trial. The safety of people should be given attention,” said Nitish Kumar.

Meanwhile, Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) demanded dismissal of the State Government for its continued failure to protect the migrants.

Buenos Aires - Argentina is set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its return to democracy on Thursday - a difficult process that has evolved gradually since the end of the military dictatorship in 1983.

Social democrat Raul Alfonsin, of the Radical Civic Union, won the election on October 30, 1983 to become president. It was clear at the time that he had been entrusted with a huge challenge. But even skeptics could not have guessed just how hard it was going to be to govern the South American country.

Speaking at James Madison University in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told the people who packed into an overflow room that the 2008 election represents “a clear choice between the past and the future.” There were about 8,000 people at the soccer field at James Madison, but there wasn’t room for them at the indoor venue where there were 12,000 more people, mainly students too excited to sit.