New Delhi, Dec 9 : Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who turned 62 today, is not celebrating her birthday as a mark of tribute to the victims of Mumbai terror attacks.

Home Minister P Chidambaram and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi were among the first who met her and wished her.

Last week, the party had said that Sonia Gandhi would not celebrate her birthday, and asked workers not to visit her.

Party workers, who visited their president''s residence to greet her, celebrated the ocassion silently.

Kalyan (Mumbai)/New Delhi/Srinagar, Dec 9 : Muslims all over India celebrated Eid-ul-Adha on Tuesday that marks the end of pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

Popularly known as Baqr-e-Eid, the festival is celebrated on the tenth day of Zil-Haji, the last month of the year according to the Islamic calendar.

Muslims in Kalyan city of Maharashtra gathered at mosques early in the morning and offered prayers.

"We have celebrated it peacefully. Though every year, it is done the same way just that the sacrifice made is part of the celebration of the festival," said Javed Ahmed, a devotee.

New Delhi/Jaipur/Raipur, Dec 9 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) met here to analyze the results, as the ruling Congress party emerged victorious in three out of the five states.

The votes come before national elections in the first half of 2009 that will pit a ruling Congress-led coalition against an opposition alliance led by the BJP.

Arun Jaitley, general secretary of BJP, said that the party would form a committee to analyse the outcome of the polls.

New Delhi, Dec 9 : Former President and father of nuclear technology of India APJ Abdul Kalam has said that it is time that the UN action of counter terrorism is intensified creating a new counter terrorism force.

Addressing a gathering here last evening Kalam emphasised on the need of a unified force to counter terrorism across the globe.

New Delhi - India's ruling Congress Party Monday won three of the five state elections that were seen as a political barometer for the country's upcoming general elections against the backdrop of terrorist attacks and the economic slowdown.

Results from the Election Commission showed the Congress Party retained power in the national capital New Delhi for a third five-year term while it recorded a landslide victory in the north-eastern state of Mizoram.

New Delhi, Dec 8 : The Congress Party is back in power in Rajasthan and Mizoram and retained Delhi; while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been able to hold Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

The emerging results to Assembly polls show a 3:2 split in favour of Congress, providing a much-needed boost to the Congress-led UPA just ahead of general elections due in April-May 2009.

Congress headed for a hatrick today in Delhi, bagging 42 seats, leaving its rival BJP way behind with 23 seats.