New Delhi, Jan 27, : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that India doesn't have any sympathy for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE) and added that Tamil civilians should not be made victims of the conflict in the island nation.

"We are for fight against terrorists and all sorts of terrorism. Therefore, we have no sympathy for any terrorist activity indulged in by any organisation, particularly LTTE, which is a banned organisation in India," Pranab Mukherjee told reporters on Tuesday, hours before his two-day visit to Sri Lanka.

New Delhi, Jan 26, : United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chief Sonia Gandhi has c

New Delhi, Jan 27, : Former President Ramaswamy Venkataraman passed away on Tuesday at the Army Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi.

Venkataraman, 98, was admitted to the hospital on January 12 with complains of Urosepsis (a toxic condition caused by the extravasations of urine into bodily tissues.

He was suffering from multi-organ failure and was on advanced life support systems including ventilatory support and continuous hemodialysis," an official of the hospital said.

New Delhi, Jan 27 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh continues to maintain excellent progress following his heart surgery.

This morning, Dr Singh had breakfast with his wife and daughters.

According to a statement from the Prime Minister''s office, most of the tubes have been removed from his body and he is taking physiotherapy to enable him move at the earliest.

Dr. Singh is eager to resume work as early as possible. He has received countless messages from across the country and abroad for his speedy recovery.

New Delhi, Jan 27 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will visit Sri Lanka today where the military claims to have captured the last LTTE bastion of Mullaittivu.

During the two-day visit, Mukherjee will meet Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama and to press for early implementation of the devolution package to ensure that the ethnic Tamils get rights and privileges at par with others.

His visit comes in the backdrop of strong demands by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and some other parties from the state that the External Affairs Minister should visit Sri Lanka and prevail upon Rajapaksa government to go for ceasefire.

New Delhi, Jan. 27 : The mother of Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager who was murdered on a beach in Goa last February, has charged the police of that state with destroying her daughter's internal organs.

The body of 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling was pulled from North Goa''s Anjuna beach semi-naked, with just a bikini top around her neck, while her bikini bottoms, shorts and shoes were discovered by her mother on a busy path two days later.