NEW DELHI - In an obvious bid to regain legal status in India, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers have told Home Minister P. Chidambaram that it is not trying to regroup and is also not engaged in any illegal activity in this country.

SRINAGAR - A separatist guerrilla and a police constable were killed in an ongoing gunfight between militants holed up in a house and security forces in north Kashmir Sopore town Friday, police said.

KOLKATA - Four villagers have been abducted by suspected Maoists in West Bengals Purulia district, police said Friday.

KARACHI - Crime Investigation Department (CID) personnel had alerted "high-ups" that their office here could be the target of a terror attack, a media report said Friday, a day after at least 19 people were killed and 110 injured when an explosives-laden vehicle rammed into the police station.