After onions and pulses, tomato prices have now hit the roof with the rates rising by 50 per cent in just about a month to Rs 62 a kg in Delhi, even as the government said a moderation was likely soon with new crops. 

"Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen has revealed that he is HIV positive. 

BJP today accused Congress leaders Mani Shankar Aiyar and Salman Khurshid of behaving like ISI, IS or Taliban "propagandists" and asked the party to come clean on whether it subscribed to their views.

A hardcore NDFB-S militant, wanted in connection with several crimes, was killed in an encounter with security forces in Sonitpur district of Assam today.

A 75-year-old Indian-origin Maoist revolutionary leader in the UK, charged with modern day slavery, sexual assault and imprisonment of his own daughter, forced a woman to commit humiliating sex acts on him, a court here has been told.

Just in: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is likely to call off the India-Pakistan series in December. The PCB is believed to be miffed at the BCCI's refusal to play the series in the UAE. The BCCI has said the series can only be played in India.


Pakistan said yesterday that it will not tour India to play their 'home' bilateral series with PCB chairman Shahryar Khan saying that a third 'home' series in India was out of the question.


Khan claimed last week that the BCCI in India had invited Pakistan to play a series in India in December. According to a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the BCCI and PCB in 2014, this is Pakistan's turn to play host. For security reasons, Pakistan play their home matches in the UAE.


The ball now rests in Pak PM Nawaz Sharif's court as the series can only take place if he overrules the PCB.

British PM David Cameron has said he will personally "build the case" for military intervention in Syria, reports the Telegraph.


The PM has said it was his "firm conviction" that Britain needed to tackle ISIS in the country. He had earlier rowed back on plans to ask MPs to vote on military action, fearing that he would not command enough support.


But today he signalled in the strongest possible way that he will go for a Parliament vote.


"I've always said there is a strong case for us doing so. We should not let others carry the burden and the risks of protecting our country," Cameron said.


He said he "recognises the concerns" of MPs but added, "My firm conviction is that we need to act against ISIS in Syria. Together we will prevail."



Pic: French President Francois Hollande and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron at the Paris march in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack in January this year.

The Bombay High Court, hearing a plea against the ban on women in Haji Ali dargah said that this was an era of intolerance.


The court said it will not decide on religious matters like the ban on entry of women in the sanctum sanctorum of the iconic Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai.


A division bench of Justices VM Kanade and Revati Mohite Dere was hearing a petition challenging the rule imposed by the Haji Ali Dargah trust which bars entry of women in the 'sanctum sanctorum' of the Dargah which houses the tomb of the 15th century Sufi saint Haji Ali.


"Today the atmosphere is such that everything is taken in another way. This is an era of intolerance. When it comes to religious matters people become very sensitive," Justice Kanade said.


The court urged the parties involved to try resolving the issue outside of court.

Seven persons were electrocuted and four others injured when a live wire fell on them in Madhubani district of Bihar, prompting Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to order an investigation.


An 11,000-volt overhead wire snapped and fell on a road at Kunwar Singh Chowk, where a group of people were trading fruits and vegetables on the occasion of Chhath festival, Madhubani Superintendent of Police Md. Akhtar Hussain said.

While the impact of the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral debacle in Bihar and the public rift between the party's "veterans" and the current leadership on the course of domestic politics is uncertain, India's foreign relations will not normally be affected by these developments.  Read more

Markets rose for the second consecutive session -- their first back-to-back gains so far this month -- as the benchmark BSE Sensex today climbed over 104 points to 25,864.47, helped by value-buying and a firm global trend after worries about Paris attacks dissipated.

Just in: Rakesh Lakhani is the new chief electoral officer of Tamil Nadu. 

NDA strategy meet ahead tomorrow ahead of the winter session in Parliament. The government will have to gird its loins for a resurgent opposition after the Bihar poll debacle.

Army's Colonel Santosh Mahadik, Commanding Officer of 41 Rashtriya Rifles succumbs to injuries sustained in anti-terror op in Kupwara, J&K.

A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court today adjourned the trial in the murder case of journalist J Dey till November 23 after it was told by Mumbai Police that the state government has handed over all cases against underworld don Chhota Rajan to the CBI.

"I went and got married to the strongest man in the land, idolised by millions, only to face a barrage of abuse. In the end, being Mrs Imran Khan couldn't protect me. Even the divorce announcement couldn't stop the hate campaign waged in the press to demolish my character. It still surprises me how people I have never met and who are sitting miles away, are capable of giving reliable information about me. I wasn't aware of the extra eyes and ears inside my bedroom."


Reham Khan tells the Guardian why her 10-month-old marriage to Imran
Khan ended.  Read


However, this is what she told the Sunday Times two days ago: I was asked to make chapatis, stay indoors. Read 

Franois Hollande's historic Versailles speech -- in which he hammered home that France was "at war' and promised to "eradicate terrorism' -- was the most martial performance he has ever given. It marked the completion of an intriguing transformation that has taken place over several years: of the socialist who was once derided as a soft, conflict-avoidant, blancmange-like "marshmallow' into a self-styled "chief of war'.

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Veteran VHP leader Ashok Singhal's funeral to be held at 4 pm at Nigambodh Ghat in Delhi tomorrow. His body will be brought to the RSS headquarters in Delhi at 10 pm today.

And so it begins.


Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal (who is also running for the US presidential elections in 2016) has issued an executive order on Monday to prevent Syrian refugees from being resettled in the state.  @BobbyJindal tweeted: I just signed an Executive Order instructing state agencies to take all available steps to stop the relocation of Syrian refugees to LA."


He cited Friday's terrorist attacks that killed 129 people in Paris and injured hundreds more. Jindal, who is running as a right-wing candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, cited a section of the Louisiana Constitution that says "during times of emergency ... the governor has emergency powers to protect the citizens and property of the state of Louisiana."


He also sent a letter Saturday to demand information from the Obama administration about Syrian refugees being placed in Louisiana. The Islamic State group, which controls parts of Syria and Iraq, has claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks.


While on Jindal, read:Bobby Jindal's identity crisis

Militants often call each other "brother', and refer collectively to the "brothers' in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq or France. Why?


Partly this is to indicate solidarity, attachment to a common cause, a sense of shared identity and endeavour.


Partly it's because that's how young men speak, all over the world, but particularly in the kind of environments from which many contemporary militants come.But it is also because, remarkably often, the term is entirely accurate. Those speaking of being "brothers' are indeed blood relatives, children of the same parents, who often grew up together. Read more

Gayatri Jayaraman @Gayatri__J  tweets on Ashok Singhal, the VHP leader who passed away this afternoon. "Recall a speech he gave with the line: 'when youth today join the IIT their souls migrate to the US and their bodies join them 4 yrs later"

Five newspapers in Nagaland were published with their editorial spaces blank to protest what they termed an effort by the Assam Rifles to suppress freedom of the media in the state.


The Nagaland Press Association (NPA), a conglomerate of journalists and non-journalists, also extended support to the editors in their protest against the para-military force.


English dailies Morung Express, Eastern Mirror and Nagaland Page and vernacular papers Capi Daily (in Angami dialect) and Tir Yimyim (in Ao dialect) were published with their editorial spaces blank yesterday as a mark of protest.


The Nagaland Post, meanwhile, carried an editorial opposing the Assam Rifles' diktat. They were protesting against a letter purportedly sent by the Assam Rifles to the editors of all local dailies on October 24.


The letter allegedly warned newspapers against carrying statements made by militant groups, specifically the NSCN(K), reminding them that the outfit had been declared an "unlawful association" by the Union Home Ministry.


"Any article which projects the demands of NSCN(K) and gives it publicity is a violation under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1957, and should not be published by your newspaper," the letter had said. The NSCN(K) had abrogated the 14-year-old ceasefire with the Centre in April. Meanwhile, Nagaland Press Association president K Temjen

Just in: Veteran VHP leader Ashok Singhal passes away in Gurgaon.  Singhal has been admitted to a private hospital in Gurgaon, following heart and kidney problems and breathlessness, and was very critical. Singhal died at 2.24 pm at Medanta Medicity hospital in Gurgaon.


VHP leader Praveen Togadia and a number of bureaucrats visited the hospital to enquire about Singhal's health but could not meet him as the 89-year-old leader was on life-support.

On March 15, the Harihara-Chitradurga passenger train was passing through Avaregere village in Davangere district, Karnataka. The locomotive driver saw a young boy running towards the train on the track waving a red cloth vigorously. The driver applied the brakes and stopped the train. The boy, Siddesh Manjunath, 10, had just saved the lives of about 850 passengers on that train. Read A Ganesh Nadar's story to find out why.

1984 anti-Sikh riots case: Court will pass judgement on CBI's closure report on Jagdish Tytler, on 4 Decembe.

Chittoor Mayor Katari Anuradha was brutally murdered and her husband Katari Mohan, a senior TDP leader, seriously injured in an attack by a gang of three on the premises of the Chittoor Municipal Corporation office on Tuesday noon, reports the Hindu.

A woman who survived the attack on La Belle Equipe restaurant in Paris on Friday because a friend jumped in front of her to intercept the bullets is so traumatised by the experience that she can hardly speak.


The Telegraph reports that Chloe Clement was at the restaurant on Rue de Charonne to celebrate a friends birthday when the gunmen burst in, killing 11 members of the party and shooting her in the arm.


One of them was Ludo Boumbas, a 40-year-old Fedex carrier of Congolese origin, who used himself as a human shield to protect her and was fatally shot.


Now recovering in hospital, Ms Clement is so affected by the attack that she simply lies in bed repeating Mr Boumbass name. Virgile Grunberg, the manager of Caf des Anges, where many people from the birthday celebration worked, went to visit Ms Clement in hospital and said she was deeply disturbed by the events of Friday night.


"She was on morphine and was in shock. She would barely speak.
"She felt guilty because Ludovic died for her. She just kept repeating his name again and again."


An unnamed friend told MailOnline: "Ludo threw himself forward to protect a girl and took the bullet. "She was also shot, but she survived and is in hospital. He loved travelling the world and above all he loved people. He was just one of life's good, good people. He didn't stand a chance."


Mr Boumbas and Ms Clement were at La Belle Equipe on Friday night to celebrate the 35th birthday of waitress Houda Saadi when the gunmen arrived and started spraying the cafe with bullets.


Ms Saadi, 35, and her sister Halima, 36, were among the 19 killed.
Ms Saadis brothers, Khaled and Bashir, also attended the celebration but were not hit. They rushed in vain to try to save their sisters as they lay in pools of blood on the floor.


These people kill Muslims, Khaled told reporters last night. "They killed anyone who was there." The majority of the victims at the caf were from the birthday celebrations.


Also among the victims was the Muslim wife of the Jewish bar owner, Grgory Reibenberg, 46. Djamila, 40, died in front of him.


Pic: Chloe Clement/Facebook

Revealed: Germaine Greer's 30,000-word love letter to Martin Amis, a lover who left her 'helpless with desire'. Read

Russia's security chief told President Vladimir Putin that a plane carrying 224 people over Sinai was downed due to a "terror attack," the Kremlin said today.


"One can say unambiguously that it was a terror act," the head of the FSB security agency, Alexander Bortnikov, told Putin in a meeting the day before. Citing experts, he said the plane disintegrated in midair due to a bomb with the equivalent of a kilo of TNT. Putin vowed to 'find and punish' those behind Sinai plane attack.

Their children abandoned them to join the worst terror organization on earth. Now all they have is each other. Read

Despite the nods to India's great historical connections to the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to London barely covered any colonial territory.


British comedian John Oliver has decided to step into that breach, by dedicating a segment of his show, Last Week Tonight, to the Modi visit.


Referring to Modi's quip that he had been told London would be cold but "not this much", Oliver said "it follows in the grand tradition of the UK underselling the severity of the conditions an Indian leader would be suffering under."


Oliver focused on the sub-text of Modi's visit that never quite became text, except for on twitter and in legal petitions calling for Britain to return that which truly belongs to India: the Koh-i-Noor.


Calling the British Monarch's crown "an elegant head sofa" where the diamond now sits, Oliver rips into Britain's veiled refusals to give the diamond back.


"What he's basically saying is, I understand that you want the diamond, but we have the diamond, you don't, and we're going to keep having it forever, so in summary: finders keepers," Oliver said.

Greek authorities say a strong earthquake has hit the western island of Lefkada, but there have been no reports of injuries or damage. The Athens Geodynamic Institute says the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 and occurred at 9:10 am today off Greece's western mainland, some 300 kilometers west of Athens. Earthquakes are common in Greece, which is one of the world's most seismically active areas, though serious injuries and deaths are rare. More than 100 people died in a severe quake near Athens in 1999.

Jamat-e-Ulema-e-Hind led by Maulana Mehmood Madani says, "I would like to say this with full responsibility, no country better than India for Muslims." Madani will hold demonstrations across the country against terrorism. "As long as countries which harbour terrorists don't stop, this problem is going to persist," he said.

China's new two-child policy has evoked a poor response from young couples as they are reluctant to have a second child due to the high cost of living, an official survey has found.


The survey, conducted by state-run China Youth Daily among 3,000 people, more than half of them women, found that although 46 per cent of the respondents expressed a willingness to have a second child, 52 per cent said they are worried that having one more child would reduce the standard of living they now enjoy.


The unenthusiastic response from public after vigorous implementation of the controversial one child policy is regarded as set back for China's plans to arrest its demographic crisis and create a big pool of labour force in the next few decades. People are vocal in expressing reluctance to have a second child and the policy has also evoked poor response.

Just in: The Maharashtra gives in to the demands of the Shiv Sena and authorises the memorial to Bal Thackeray to come up at the Mayor's bungalow in Dadar, Mumbai. Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis made the announcement today on the late Shiv Sena chief's death anniversary.


The sea-side bungalow is located across Shivaji Park in Dadar, where Thackeray established the Shiv Sena in 1966 and also addressed the annual Dussehra rallies.

It seemed like the world stopped. News outlets devoted nonstop coverage to the terrorist attack in Paris. Many people changed their Facebook or Twitter profile pictures to show solidarity with France.


Why this attack? Why didn't the suicide bombs the day before in Lebanon, or the slaughter of more than 100 college students in Kenya earlier this year, draw such an outcry?  Read more

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday slammed senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar for his comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an interview to a Pakistani news channel and have demanded his resignation. 


"It reeks of conspiracy. How can you say this to Pakistan? You are a former minister. This is a very serious statement by him. He should not only come out and apologise, he should also explain the meaning of the statement. But looking into the gravity of the statement, none other than Sonia Gandhi should clarify and should sack him from Congress," BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra told ANI.


"We all know that Mani Shankar Aiyar and Salman Khurshid are habitual offenders, vis-a-vis Pakistan is concerned and they have always spoken high of Pakistan and low of India," he added. Patra condemned Aiyar's remark and called it 'absolutely appalling'.

Just In: Earthquake with 6.7 magnitude strikes Greece - USGS

As a modest, if prosperous nation of just 11 million, Belgium rarely makes news headlines, yet today it has the unenviable distinction of being Europe's jihadist hothouse.


After the Paris attacks, police quickly traced the terrorists to Brussels, raiding addresses in the Molenbeek district and arresting seven suspects. It was in the grimy, run-down, neighbourhood that investigators believe the Paris plot was hatched by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian-born son of an immigrant shopkeeper from Morocco.


Abaaoud is only part of a web of Belgium-based foot soldiers, whose exploits have left a trail of death across Europe. And beyond: around 500 young Belgians have gone to Syria to fight for jihadist groups like ISIS '" per capita, no other European country has sent more foreign fighters.

Former Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan gets clean chit in illegal property deal case, Centre tells Supreme Court.

If you were watching the night of terror in Paris on Friday the 13th, you could not have failed to miss the image of a woman screaming for help as she clings to a ledge. Desperate, young and pregnant. A fall would have endangered her life and the life of her unborn child.


The good news is that the woman and her baby are alive and well. Thanks to the help of a stranger.


The iconic image of the woman screaming, "Help, help, I'm pregnant, catch me if I fall," stood out in the blurry video footage, showing her clinging to the a 1st floor window of the Bataclan venue.


Inside, gunmen were cold-bloodedly shooting dead 89 of her fellow concert goers.


The woman sent a message of thanks to her rescuer as he described how they had both cheated death.


The Telegraph reports that the woman was just moments from losing her grip when Sebastien, who declined to disclose his surname, heard her cries.

There were two windows in front of me, he said. She was dangling from one of them, begging people below for help if she jumped. It was chaos down there as well. I climbed out through the other window and held on to an air vent 15 metres from the ground. I held on for five minutes and then the pregnant woman, who couldnt cling to the window-sill any longer, asked me to help her get back inside.


Amid a torrent of gunfire, Sbastien went back inside and pulled the woman back through the window before the pair were immediately separated.


Pic: A video grab of the woman clinging on for life that was shared on social media.

The mother of Paris suicide bomber Ibrahim Abdeslam - whose two brothers are also suspects - has said her son "did not mean to kill anyone" and his family believes he blew himself up because of "stress".


The Telegraph reports that Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31, detonated his suicide vest outside the Comptoir Voltaire cafe on Friday night, but did not kill anyone other than himself.


His brother Mohammed was arrested in Brussels on Saturday and a third sibling, Salah, is Europe's most wanted man after becoming the subject of an international arrest warrant.


Pic: The cafe outside which Ibrahim Abdeslam blew himself up.

The Maharashtra government has finally thought fit to use its coastline for transportation.


If the Maharashtra government's move to revive passenger water transport goes as per plan, tourists will soon be able to use roll-on, roll-off (RoRo) services at three jetties in Mumbai to reach Goa without getting stuck in highway traffic jams.


The state government is considering upgrading facilities at the existing jetties at Mandwa, Nerul and Ferry Wharf. A meeting of Infrastructure Sub-committee will be held on November 23 in this regard and will be chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.


There are major three issues on the agenda of the meeting -- strengthening existing jetties, Mumbai-Nagpur super communication highway and Mumbai-Trans Harbour Link.

As the debate over alleged growing intolerance continues, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sakshi Maharaj on Tuesday said that no other country in the world is as tolerant as India.When asked to comment on Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan's statement on Paris terror attacks, the controversial BJP MP said, ''the Samajwadi Party leader's remarks, whether it is on Tipu Sultan or France attacks, it only gives an impression that he is supporting terrorists."


Sakshi Maharaj's reactions came a day after Khan stoked a controversy by saying the global superpowers should think whether it was a reaction to the killing of innocents in Arab countries.


"Whatever the terrorists did in Paris was wrong. But, attack on Arab countries and killing of innocents there by US and Russia is also not justified," Khan had said.


"We need to look who killed whom first, after that who retaliated. This is a debatable issue. You strike bombs through drones to kill the innocents... History will decide who is a terrorist and who is wrong."


Reacting sharply to Khan's remarks, BJP demanded action against him and dared the Samajwadi Party leadership to make public its stand, saying it would otherwise be construed that it supports terrorism.

Mitchell Johnson has decided his international cricket career should end after the 2nd test against New Zealand at his adopted home ground, a fitting venue synonymous with fast bowling.


AP reports that the 34-year-old Australian paceman issued a statement on Tuesday before the last day of the WACA test, saying "beyond this match I'm just not sure that I can continue competing consistently at the level required to wear the baggy green.'

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that the Islamic State (IS) terror group, which carried out attacks in Paris that killed 132, is being financed by 40 countries around the globe, including some G-20 nations.


RT.com, the online arm of the state-run Russia Today and regarded as a mouthpiece of the Kremlin, quoted Putin as saying that, "I provided examples based on our data on the financing of different Islamic State units by private individuals. This money, as we have established, comes from 40 countries and, there are some of the G20 members among them."

ISIS derives most of its funds from activities inside the territories it now controls, said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. That's different from, say, Al Qaeda, which has historically relied on donations from outside sources.


"When they control a territory that's approximately the size of Great Britain, that creates a great deal of ability to get internal sources of revenue, ranging from natural resources, to antiquities they control, to taxation on their population," he said.


Pic: Islamic State militants blew up the Arch of Triumph, a historic monument in the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra in Syria. Sale of antiquities from sites it loots funds the group.

What Paris taught us about the Islamic State. Read

French President Francois Hollande has vowed to destroy the Islamic State group after its atrocities in Paris, promising tough new anti-terror measures at home and intensified bombing of Syria.


France and Belgium staged dozens of raids yesterday on suspected extremists as the manhunt continued for an eighth jihadist, including in a known radical hot spot in Brussels where some of the attackers are thought to have lived. Describing the coordinated attacks that killed 129 people as "acts of war," Hollande urged a global fightback to crush IS and said he would hold talks with his US and Russian counterparts on a new offensive.


Friday's "acts of war... were decided and planned in Syria, prepared and organised in Belgium (and) perpetrated on our soil with French complicity," Hollande told an extraordinary meeting of both houses of parliament in Versailles.


"The need to destroy Daesh (IS) ... concerns the entire international community," he told lawmakers, who burst into an emotional rendition of the Marseillaise national anthem after his speech.


Hollande said the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle would be deployed to the eastern Mediterranean to "triple our capacity to take action" against IS in Syria. "We will continue the strikes in the weeks to come ... There will be no respite and no truce," he said.

President Barack Obama landed in Southeast Asia today for string of summits with Asian leaders, a visit he had hoped would highlight progress in his seven-year charm offensive in the region but was instead overshadowed by the fight against Islamic terrorism in the Middle East. The terrorist attacks in Paris and talk of reprisals against the Islamic State threatened to cloud Obama's good-news tour to the Philippines and Malaysia this week.


While Obama was ready to talk up his freshly inked trade deal and military cooperation in Asia, the rest of the world was looking for leadership on the Islamic State's relentless terror spree. It was hardly the first time the Middle East has kept Obama from making the pivot his administration once imagined would be central to his foreign policy legacy.

Noted Tamil devotional singer 'Pithukuli' Murugadas died in Chennai early this morning following a brief illness. Murugadas, 95 was a writer, lyricist and music composer. He was recipient of Kalaimamani, Sankeerthana Samrat and Thyagaraja awards. 

A Delhi court is likely to pass its order today on CBI's closure report giving a clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate SPS Laler had reserved its order on October 30 after hearing arguments of counsel for CBI and the riots victim on the issue of whether to accept the closure report.The riot victims have filed a protest petition against the clean chit given thrice to Tytler by CBI, claiming there was ample evidence to prosecute him and accused the agency of favouring him.

As the terrorist attacks erupted in Paris, people throughout the world mourned with France, and appalled Muslims turned to social media using the hashtag #NotInMyName. Using the hashtags #IAmAMuslim and #NotInMyName, Muslim Twitter users have united in grief with Parisians while expressing their abhorrence towards the violence carried out by terrorists in the name of Islam.

"You will not have my hatred." 

US President Barack Obama has defended his administration's strategy against the so-called Islamic State, rebuffing calls to send ground troops to Syria. 

If you are in Mumbai and planning to travel, prepare yourself to take detours as the Mumbai police has made changes in traffic routes on Tuesday in view of the third death anniversary of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray at Shivaji Park in Mumbai's Dadar (West) area. 

Pakistan Rangers have resorted to unprovoked firing at Border Security Force positions on the international border in Samba district of Jammu region. "Pakistan Rangers started firing in Chalari and Ghugwal areas of the border in Samba district at 3.50 am on Tuesday targeting nine BSF border outposts," a senior police official said. 

A five-minute walk from the Bataclan theatre, the site of the worst Friday massacre in Paris, is the former office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that now houses a financial business.The magazine's cartoonists, a Paris journalist close to them said that they now operate out of a new, high-security premises, whose location is a closely-guarded secret. Large parts of their work are done online; none has given an interview for months. French plainclothes police, armed with guns, escort staff who are known to the public and thus at higher risk.

An assistant commissioner of police posted with Delhi Police's Special Cell committed suicide by allegedly shooting himself in his apartment at Noida area of the National Capital Region. Senior officials of the Uttar Pradesh Police confirmed the incident and added that the wife of the ACP had also jumped from the fourth floor of the same building and is currently in a critical condition. Police also said that 18-month-old daughter of the couple was also at the apartment when the incident took place and has been rescued from the flat.

Mitchell Johnson says the time is right to "say goodbye" to international cricket after one of Australia's greatest fast bowlers declared he could no longer be a consistent force. Johnson, 34, has struggled through the opening two Tests against New Zealand, taking just five wickets at an average of 64 heading into day five of the WACA Test, and will retire once the second Test concludes on Tuesday.

France is at war, says Hollande as he vows to destroy ISIS