Terrorism

GANDHINAGAR - The final hearing in the killing of Sadiq Jamal Mehtar, an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba militant who was killed in 2003 in a staged shootout by the state police, began in the Gujarat High Court Friday.

WASHINGTON - July was the deadliest month for US troops in Afghanistan since the war there started nearly nine years ago, CNN reported Friday.

GUWAHATI - Six militants of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), including the outfit's publicity chief, were arrested Friday in separate raids from Assam's main city of Guwahati, officials said.

WASHINGTON - Pakistanis consider India a greater threat than Taliban and Al Qaeda with a quarter viewing Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for 2008 Mumbai attacks, favourably, according to a new study.

GUWAHATI - At least five paramilitary troopers were killed and 30 injured, five of them critically, in a powerful landmine explosion in Assam Friday, officials said. The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the explosion.