New Delhi - The chief minister of India's Maharashtra state resigned Thursday, accepting moral responsibility for the Mumbai terror attacks.

"In a democracy one has to honour people's anguish and anger," PTI news agency quoted Vilasrao Deshmukh as saying at a press briefing in Mumbai.

Deshmukh's resignation comes a week after terrorists wrought mayhem in India's financial hub - which is also the capital of Maharashtra state - killing 171 people and injuring over 300.

New Delhi, Dec 4 : Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will arrive on a three-day visit here this evening.

During his visit, Medvedev will have summit talks with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Besides meeting other Indian leaders, he is scheduled to meet his Indian counterpart Pratibha Patil and Vice President Hamid Ansari.

Closer bilateral interaction in combating international and cross-border terrorism is expected to top the agenda of his talks in New Delhi.

Several documents are likely to be signed during his visit.

New Delhi, Dec. 4 : The ten terrorists, who attacked Mumbai last week and killed nearly 200 people and injured nearly 300, navigated through the city using Global Positioning System equipment.

The Washington Post quoted Indian investigators and police as revealing that the terrorists carried BlackBerrys, compact discs holding high-resolution satellite images and multiple cell phones with switchable SIM cards, besides communicating with their handlers by satellite telephone and called voice-over-Internet-protocol phone numbers, making them harder to trace, to get at their targeted destinations.

In effect, they used all available technology as a tactical tool to wreck the maximum damage.

New Delhi, Dec. 4 : The Union Government has received intelligence inputs about a possible 9/11 type terror strike from the air.

‘Terrorists'' plans to carry out a 9/11-type aerial attack on targets in India’, Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major said on Thursday in New Delhi.

"This is based on a warning, and we are prepared to tackle any such possibilities as usual," Major informed the reporters.

He said the issue was also discussed during the meeting of the three service chiefs with Defence Minister A. K. Antony on Wednesday.

Deepak Sandhu, the Principal Information Officer (PIO), will be the new Media Adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. She will have a unique distinction of being the first woman to hold this post. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Wednesday approved the appointment of Sandhu.

She will take charge of the new assignment on Thursday.

A 1971 batch Indian Information Service officer, Sandhu will fill the slot vacated by Sanjaya Baru. Baru left the PMO four months ago to join the academic world in Singapore.

Lt Gen Jasbir Singh has been appointed as the new Director General of Infantry at the Army headquarters in New Delhi by the Union Govt.