By IANS,

Noida : A 15-year-old girl was found dead with multiple stab injuries on her face, chest and neck when her father opened her bedroom door at their home here Friday morning, police said.

Police suspect a newly-employed domestic help who is absconding ever since the incident.

Ayushi, the only daughter of a dentist couple, had eaten dinner with her family Thursday night and then retired to her separate room in the three-bedroom apartment in Jalvayu Vihar at Noida's Sector-25, which comes under the Sector-20 police station.

By Anil Sharma, IANS,

Jaipur : The police said Friday they were questioning 18 suspects in connection with Jaipur's bomb attacks and had identified the sellers of eight of 10 cycles on which the bombs were placed and exploded in crowded areas.

Rajasthan Parliamentary Affairs Minister R.S. Rathore told reporters here that frantic efforts were on to find out the sellers of the remaining two cycles.

"We have the bills stating the names and addresses of the buyers," Rathore said. "We are trying to verify the details."

By Kavita Bajeli-Datt, IANS,

Jaipur : The two-day shutdown in the walled city areas, following the serial terror blasts in Jaipur that claimed 61 lives, has hit businesses hard, leading to an estimated loss of Rs.20 billion, the industry said Friday.

"The bomb blasts brought not only utmost misery and devastation to people, but caused a loss of Rs.2,000 crore (Rs.20 billion) in turnover," K.L. Jain, honorary secretary general of the Rajasthan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told IANS.

By IANS,

Khora (Jammu and Kashmir) : Admitting that "three to four" militants could have infiltrated across the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir, the Border Security Force (BSF) said Friday it would increase its force levels along the 200-km-long frontier to forestall any other attempts.

"We see the possibility of three to four infiltrators having sneaked in," BSF director general A.K. Mitra told reporters after inspecting the spot where militants had May 9 attempted to infiltrate.

By SPA,

Colombo : Nine people, including six police, were killed and 90 others injured in a bomb explosion when a suicide bomber drove a motorbike into a bus carrying police personnel in central Colombo, reported the Ministry of Defence, according to DPA.

The explosion went off near a security checkpoint on the road leading to the president's office within a high security zone at noon (0630 GMT), army spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.

Two of those killed and many of the injured were civilians, said the defence ministry.

By Xinhua,

Cairo : The leader of al-Qaida Osama bin Laden has vowed to keep fighting against the Jewish state and its Western allies on the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary in an audio released on an Islamist website Friday.

"We will continue the fight against the Israelis and their allies ... and will not give up a single inch of Palestine as long as there is one sincere Muslim on earth," bin Laden said in his latest message.

By IANS,

Khora (International Border near Jammu) : The Border Security Force (BSF) will deploy more men and sophisticated gadgets along Jammu and Kashmir's 200 km-long International Border (IB) with Pakistan after being rapped for recent infiltration bids by militants that it claimed to have "completely foiled".

"We see the possibility of three to four infiltrators having sneaked in," BSF director general A.K. Mitra told reporters after inspecting the spot where militants had May 9 attempted to infiltrate.

By IRNA,

New Delhi : At least seven persons have been killed and more than 75 others injured in a massive blast in Colombo a short while ago.

The incident occurred at Fort area, commercial hub of Sri Lankan capital. Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said that the blast, suspected to have been triggered by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was targeted on a bus carrying police personnel, All India Radio (AIR) reported here.

By NNN-Xinhua,

Beijing : The Chinese government has strongly condemned Tuesday's terrorist bombings in India's Jaipur city, which left more than 60 people dead and 150 injured, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang.

Qin made the remarks when responding to a journalist question, adding the Chinese government would like to express deep grief over the victims in the terrorist attack and convey sincere condolences to the relatives of the victims and those wounded in the attack.

By P. Karunakharan, IANS,

Colombo : Seven police personnel and two civilians were killed and some 95 wounded when a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a police bus in the heart of the busy Sri Lankan capital at midday Friday.

The attack occurred close to Hotel Hilton, opposite a Buddhist temple known as Sambodhi Vihar and also not far from the heavily guarded office of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.