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Pakistan's interior minister has offered to quit if the presence of US security agency Blackwater in Pakistan is proved -- but he could be treading on thin ice for more than one reason.

The authorities Saturday deployed additional security forces in an Orissa town after two people were killed when tribal activists attacked a police station in the area Friday, an official said.

Some 3,000 Indians, mostly in Jammu and Kashmir, have been killed in landmine explosions over the past 10 years, according to an NGO working for a world free of antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions.

A day after a passenger was killed and 40 others were injured in a train derailment after Maoist guerrillas blew up a track in Jharkhand, the government Friday asked the civil society to condemn such “wanton acts of violence" meant to sabotage polls in the state.

Embarrassed after the criticism from various quarters, the Maharashtra government Thursday evening shifted a platoon of police - entrusted with guarding the Hotel Taj Mahal Palace & Tower - from the Gateway of India where they were living since nearly two months.

CIA director Leon E. Panetta arrived in the Indian capital to hold discussions with security experts including National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan on issues like cooperation on fighting terror and sharing of intelligence.

At least two people were killed when police opened fire Friday on a mob attacking a police station in Orissa's Koraput district, an official said

The security situation in Sri Lanka has improved since the defeat of the Tamil Tigers but Americans travelling to the country should remain careful, the US said Friday.

Noting that a "cross border fertilisation of terrorism" is preventing both Pakistan and Afghanistan to defeat the forces threatening them, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants the two countries to work together to defeat terrorism.

Goa Police Thursday dismissed media reports about a possible terror threat to the forthcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which gets underway here Nov 23.