New Delhi, Aug 8: A meeting of Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police of all States will be held here today to discuss the need to respond to deliberate and planned incidents and develop a strategy in this regard.

The meeting is expected to carry forward the ongoing consultation process in respect of internal security issues between the Central and State Governments.

New Delhi  - Thousands of Tibetan exiles came out on the streets in India Thursday, a day before the start of the Beijing Olympics, to protest against alleged Chinese atrocities and "occupation" of their homeland, organizers said.

Nearly 2,000 Tibetans filled the streets of the northern town of Dharamsala where the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and his government-in-exile are based, raising slogans against China and asking the international community to rally behind the Tibetans.

New Delhi, August 7 : For the first time in 13 years inflation crossed 12 per cent, at 12.1 per cent, for the week ended July 26, on the back of costlier food items.

Rise in prices of certain food articles and manufactured products pushed inflation to a 13-year high of 11.98 per cent for the week ended July 19.

The increase prompted economists to predict another 25 basis points increase in the central bank''s short-term lending rates.

New Delhi  - India's inflation rate rose to a new double-digit high of 12.01 per cent, the highest since 1995, on higher prices for pulses, spices and other food items, government data showed Thursday.

The annualized inflation rate, which has been linked to India's wholesale price index, moved up by 0.03 per cent from 11.98 per cent in the previous week.

Higher prices of essential food items and manufactured products over the past month have seen inflation touch a 13-year high since such figures were last recorded in May
1995.

The Indian Finance Ministry maintained that inflation had "continued to remain stable."

New Delhi, Aug 6 : India today said that the reported resolution on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan senate amounts to gross interference in our internal affairs.

Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday issued a statement, which says that reported resolution on the situation in J-K in Pakistan senate amounts to gross interference in our internal affairs. The Senate should attend to issues where it has a locus standi.

Leading Pakistani newspaper the Daily Times reports that Pakistani Senate on

New Delhi, August 7 : Scores of Tibetan exiles marched in here today against Chinese occupation of their homeland.

Protesters holding banners with messages like ''Save Tibet'' and ''Our Struggle is for Freedom and Justice'' and wearing headbands with ''Free Tibet'' written on them marched down the roads in New Delhi.

With Olympics beginning on Friday in Beijing, Tibetans are trying to reinvigorate their freedom movement and protest against what they see as China''s illegal occupation of their homeland.

The protesters termed the Chinese hosting of the Olympics as an injustice to the Tibetans.