Anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of seven men charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks Saturday issued summons to a senior investigator even as six prosecution witnesses failed to appear before the judge. Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman, who is conducting the trial behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for security reasons, issued the summons for Altaf Hussain, a Karachi-based Additional Director of the Federal Investigation Agency. Prosecutors described Hussain as an “important witness” in the case against the seven accused, including Lashkar-e-Taiba c

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI, March 1 (Reuters) - A dramatised Bollywood account of the Mumbai attacks of 2008, when 166 people died in a three-day rampage, opened in Indian cinemas on Friday to present an unusually emotive tale told from the perspective of a police officer. "The Attacks of 26/11" chronicles the events that began on Nov. 26 2008, when 10 gunmen went on a killing spree throughout the coastal city, attacking two luxury hotels, a train station and a Jewish centre, among other places.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flew Sunday to Hyderabad to visit some of the 117 injured in twin bombings last week which also killed 16 people. "The prime minister is going to visit the injured in hospital and then he will be briefed by the (Andhra Pradesh state) chief minister," Singh's spokesman Pankaj Pachauri told AFP by telephone from the southern city.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will on Sunday visit the southern city of Hyderabad after twin bombings this week that killed 16 people and injured 117, an aide said. Singh will arrive in the morning and is expected to visit hospitals where the injured are being treated and meet local political leaders, the aide to the prime minister, who declined to be named, told AFP late Saturday.