Dubai, Sep 3 (IANS/WAM) A cargo plane crashed Friday evening in an uninhabited area in Dubai, media reports said.

Lisbon, Sep 3 (DPA) A Portuguese court Friday found six out of seven defendants guilty in a high-profile paedophilia case which has shocked the nation, and handed out prison sentences of up to 18 years.

Bangalore, Sep 3 Indian IT bellwether Wipro has teamed up with global enterprise software products firm Oracle to offer a warranty management and analytics solution for industrial manufacturing, automotive and high-tech industries, the company said late Friday.

New Delhi, Sep 3 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not make it but his wife Gursharan Kaur was among those who attended Shashi Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar's reception here Friday evening after their marriage last month and wished the couple all the best.

Beijing, Sep 3 A 64-year-old man who was building an underground house for his family has become a subject of a probe by authorities in China's Henan province.

New Delhi, Sep 3 Delhi Metro's Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar link, which connects the city's north with its satellite town of Gurgaon in Haryana, was a huge hit among the public Friday with over 32,000 footfalls within a few hours of its opening.

New Delhi, Sep 3 The government Friday gave in-principle approval to the Rs.100 crore Swami Vivekananda Values Education Project aimed at encouraging research on religion.

New Delhi, Sep 3 The Supreme Court has stayed an Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) verdict directing the central government to treat all the commissioned officers of the Military Nursing Service (MNS) on par with the regular army.

Raipur, Sep 3 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari said Friday that foodgrain worth Rs.58,000 crore was rotting in India every year because of the Congress party's bad governance.

Raipur, Sep 3 Close on the heels of killing abducted policeman Lucas Tete in Bihar, Maoist militants Friday hacked to death a police constable in the midst of a weekly market in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region.

Lucknow, Sep 3 A teenaged Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district Friday immolated herself after police refused to register her complaint of rape against a youth of her village, officials said.

Raipur, Sep 3 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Friday taunted Sonia Gandhi over her re-election as Congress president for a fourth successive term and said the post seems to be reserved for the Gandhi family.

Chandigarh, Sep 3 The Haryana assembly was adjourned for the day Friday - the first day of its monsoon session - following an uproar in the house by opposition parties who were seeking a discussion on the recent floods in the state.

Gandhinagar, Sep 3 The Gujarat High Court Friday issued notice to the CBI on the anticipatory bail plea of Yashpal Chudasama, a close aide of former minister Amit Shah, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shoutout case.

Mumbai, Sep 3 External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Friday underlined the importance of economic cooperation in a world that is still recovering from the global economic meltdown.

New Delhi, Sep 3 The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) said Friday it has put in place an effective and robust programme in place to ensure that the Games are free from dope violations with 1,500 doping control tests, the largest in the Games history.

London, Sep 3 The International Cricket Council (ICC) Friday said that Pakistani players Salman Butt, Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Aamer have a case to answer and defended its decision to suspend the trio for alleged spot-fixing, insisting that there is no conspiracy against Pakistani cricket.

Mumbai, Sep 3 The government should call for an immediate halt to the use of arms by security personnel against stone throwers to end the turmoil in the Kashmir Valley, a group of activists urged at a conference here Friday.

New Delhi, Sep 3 It was a day of desires being fulfilled for residents of south Delhi with the opening of the Metro's Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar section, connecting north Delhi to the satellite town of Gurgaon.

London, Sep 3 Two-time European champion long distance runner Mo Farah of England and 800 metres world record holder David Rudisha of Kenya Friday joined the growing list of star athletes skipping the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games.

New Delhi, Sep 3 A massive cleaning up campaign will be initiated in the capital from Monday as part of measures to control the spread of dengue, which has affected over 1,000 people in the city so far, as per a decision taken at a review meeting chaired by union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here Friday.

Panaji, Sep 3 In an indirect criticism of the state government, a top official of Sesa Goa (SG) - a Vedanta Resources-owned mining company based in Goa - Friday said it was virtually impossible to fight illegal mining in Goa because of 'issues faced in pursuing such matters'.

Dushanbe, Sep 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A police officer was killed and 30 people were injured Friday in a suicide car bomb attack at a police station in Tajikistan, officials said.

Bhubaneswar, Sep 3 Politics over mega projects by South Korean steel major POSCO and Vedanta and others intensified further with the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and opposition Congress in Orissa trading charges against each other Friday.

Beijing, Sep 3 (DPA) A traffic jam more than 100 km long has formed in China just one week after gridlock led to tailbacks lasting 10 days northwest of Beijing.