More then 20 people were killed when a bomb went off inside a police station in Ingushetia, Southern Russia. The suicide attack happened in Nazran, the largest city in the largest city in Ingushetia injuring more then 60 people. Among the injured are 11 children who are still in the hospital recovering from injuries. The explosion happened at the time of a shift change and many police personal were present in the building compound. A suicide bomber drove a small Russian made truck loaded with explosives into the police station building.

This region has seen many bomb attacks and shooting in recent times and most have been targeted on police and government officials. In June the motorcade of Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was attacked by a suicide bomber. He is still recovering from injuries and has not yet returned to his office.

The Monday suicide attack can be rated as the deadliest in the recent months. Apart from the police station, surrounding buildings, houses and cars parked on the street have been damaged too. As the police men had lined in for an inspection during the shift change, the suicide bomber drove the truck into the police station gate. Officials have estimated that the truck was loaded with 20 kg of TNT explosive and the bomb explosion has been described of high intensity.

An aggregate of 1,549 individuals who have been tested, 298 are affirmative cases of the swine flu virus. About 181 people have been released after been treated from health service organisations.

There were 13 new found laboratory corroborated cases cited with three each from Gurgaon and Delhi, two each from Hyderabad and Chandigarh and one each from Punjab, Pune and Kerala.

In Delhi, the reported three cases comprised of a two teen boy and girl, who had contracted the virus from an infected source. The third case was a seven year old boy who made a trip from London to Delhi on July 18 and was detected with swine flu-like symptoms and was admitted to a health care facility where the virus was confirmed on Sunday.

In Chandigarh, a 29 year old doctor from PGIMER who had lately been at a seminar in Britain and a 50 year old elderly lady who had come back from Singapore on July 14 were suffering from sore throat and runny nose. When their travel record was studied the necessary safety measures were undertaken and they were put in secluded wards. The doctor has been admitted to the PGIMER and the elderly woman is put up in a government run hospital.

An Eight year old boy from Roopnagar, Punjab, who has made a trip from Singapore through Bangkok when landed in Delhi was diagnosed with the virus. In Kerala, a six year old boy from Kasargod who had come back from Sharjah on 14 July, was put up in a hospital post his visible swine flu symptoms.

In Gurgaon, three girls of the ages 11, 14 and 8 years caught the virus from another school mate. In Hyderabad, two people, one a physician hailing from Riyadh and another from Malaysia were tested positive ensuing which they were quarantined at the Andhra Pradesh Chest Hospital that has been the core centre tending to swine flu cases. This ups the toll in Hyderabad to 39 of whom 30 have been cured and released. In Pune, a 13-yr old girl caught the infection from an infected batch mate in her school.

The only surviving suspect Ajmal Kasab captured during the 26/11 terrorist assault on Mumbai has confessed his involvement in the attack. He took a U-turn on his stand and gave a full confession of how the act was planned and carried out. He also gave full details of who all from across the border in Pakistan were involved in planning and providing logistic supports to carry out the terror attack. Out of the 10 terrorists of Pakistani origin who carried out the attack 9 were killed by the armed forces.

Police sources confirmed that the terrorists had killed more then 160 people which also included many foreigners as targets were Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotel, Mumbai’s historic CST train station and the Jewish cultural center, Chabad House. Police sources also confirmed that Ajmal Kasab, age 21, was trained in Pakistan by the banned terrorist outlet Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.

The Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam has provided all the evidence which also includes video footage from surveillance camera and 134 witnesses. Kasab was involved in the massacre at CST station and Cama hospital. He faces 86 criminal charges which also include murder, attempt to murder and waging war against India.

Today during the court proceeding when prosecution witness Constable Arun Jadhav stepped into the witness box, Kasab asked court permission for speaking to his lawyer Abbas Kazmi. After talking to him for 30 seconds, his lawyer confirmed to the court that Kasab wanted to confess. After that Kasab said in the court that “Mujhe mera gunha kabool hai (I plead guilty to my crime).”

A second person has reportedly died due to the mishap caused by the roof of the stage collapsing pulling down a crane, at the Velodrome stadium – the venue for Madonna’s forthcoming ‘Sticky and Sweet’ tour to take place in Marseilles, France. The second person who has died is recognised as a 23-year old British and a highly placed police officer. The British Foreign Office has stated that the immediate kin have been notified. There have been eight gravely injured and thirty others with minor injuries.

Earlier on Thursday, an elderly French worker was killed instantly when a crane hoisting a massive metallic bind that is used to hang lights on at the stage, disintegrated and gave way. Another person was believed to be critical along with two others who were hospitalised and in need of surgical intervention at the Marseille Hospital.

Madonna was deeply anguished when she heard the devastating news. She was in Udine, Italy when she came to know of the mishap. She expressed her heartfelt condolences and said that her prayers go out to those injured and their kin.

This mishap has led to, in any case, one of the five scheduled concerts being called off. A detailed investigation is on to delve into the reason for the mishap.

In Marseille, the fire department is a component of the Navy, with close to 27 fire engines and 80 fire-fighters were on the site to tend to matters, when the mishap took place at close to 11:15 a.m. ET.

Madonna was due to perform on Sunday at the 60,000 capacity Stade Velodrome, the second biggest sports ground in France.

Two of the four students of an English medium school located at Karve Road, Pune have been confirmed to have contracted the (H1N1) swine flu virus and are being treated in Naidu Hospital. The outcome of the test results on the third student is expected shortly.

Vigilant health care officers chose to close down a class VII class of the English Medium School for a week on Wednesday after a boy and girl student were tested positive for the swine flu virus.  The infected boy, who had transferred the virus to his two batch mates, had a family member who had been in the US for 10 months to partake in the exchange programme of the American Field Service. From the nine students hailing from Maharashtra who travelled for the exchange programme, there were five who caught the flu.

Prophylactic treatment is being administered to those who have been in close range of these infected children, even though no evident symptoms might be evident.

There have been rising cases of suspected swine flu infections in schools in Delhi. The affected students are in their teens, many of whom had made a trip to Malaysia and Singapore. Three schools in Delhi have been advised to be watchful in that regard.

The Police raised fire at two Uighur men killing them as a last means to reinstate normalcy in the situation. The incident is amongst its first when on Monday, police opened fire to stop three Uighur men who has assaulted them, when an attempt was been made by the police to scatter them away when they were attacking a fourth Uighur man with sharp objects.

There have been thousands of troops deployed on the streets of Xinjiang during the last few days to enforce rigid control in Urumqi and adjoining areas after a spate of ethnic hostility occurred the previous week that claimed 180 lives while injuring 1,680 others.

According to standard police procedure, a shot was first fired in the air to which none paid heed, post which the police fires at them. The injured man was brought to the hospital for treatment. The incident unravelled in front of many petrified onlookers, none of whom were ready to speak out it later.

A big blood stained patch was seen spattered on the street a few hours later that was shut to public. Meanwhile a notice has been issued by the Bureau for Legal Affairs of Beijing abstaining lawyers from taking up cases that were related to the latest ethnic unrest in Xinjiang in the best interest of the country.