New Delhi, Feb 11 : Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, on Wednesday lashed out at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over his controversial remark about a ''local link'' in the Mumbai attacks.

"Since Pakistan and Modi are saying the same thing on Mumbai attacks, someone please ask Modi if he and Pakistan are in contact with each other," Chidambaram said.

New Delhi, Feb. 11 : Assistant Superintendent of Police Arindam Manna, who was investigating the death of Rizwanur Rehman, was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Wednesday.

His body was found on the railway tracks in Hooghly, Kolkata. Sources claimed that the police officer had gone on leave on February
9.

Police are yet to ascertain the cause of Manna's death.

Manna was the first investigating officer in the Rizwanur Rehman murder case, and he was also the first to discover Riwanur's body.

New Delhi, Feb 11 : Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, on Wednesday, expressed great regret over the ruckus during the joint session of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.

"Wherever it is, I do not want to mention any assembly, wherever it happens, it is extremely painful, extremely worrisome. It does not help strengthening of democracy. On the other hand, it weakens our democratic structure," Chatterjee told reporters.

New Delhi, Feb 11 : A two-day National Conference on e-Governance will begin in Goa tomorrow.

The conference is being organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances in association with the Department of Information Technology and the Government of Goa.

Senior Officers from the Government, industry, academicians, technical experts and NGOs will participate in the event.

New Delhi, Feb 11 : A Brazilian website is selling a coffee cup which was reportedly used by Tom Cruise while on holiday in Forte da Urca, Brazil.

So far the empty cup has a sale price of 2,200 dollars, reports the China Daily.

The man who initiated the auction on website Mercado Libre goes by the screen name Rafael Mak.

The authenticity of the sale has, however, been contested.

New Delhi - South Asia's largest air show began in Bangalore Wednesday with nearly 600 defence and aerospace companies from 26 countries displaying their frontline aircraft and hardware to compete for multi-billion-dollar contract opportunities in India.

Aero India 2009, inaugurated by Defence Minister AK Antony at an Indian Air Force base in the southern city, got off to a roaring start with an exciting aerobatic display by fighter jets, helicopters and jet trainers.