& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

News in Brief
Fonseka moves court seeking security
1*11, Colombo
Weeks after he resigned as Sri Lanka's Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Sarath Fonseka yesterday moved the Supreme Court seeking adequate security and its intervention to allow him to stay on at his official residence.
"Fonseka filed a Fundamental Rights petition (FR) at the Supreme Court requesting adequate security and also seeking the intervention of the court to allow him to stay on at his official residence," the Daily Mirror online reported.
Fonseka, who is tipped to challenge President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the upcoming Presidential polls as the Opposition candidate, had submitted that the government was not complying with the request made by him.
Iran to free top reformist on $500,000 bail AFP, Tehran
Iran is to release on bail prominent reformist Mohammad Atrianfar who has been convicted in connection with protests after June's disputed presidential election, news agencies reported yesterday.
Atrianfar is being released on bail of 500,000 dollars, defence lawyer Hossein Alizadeh Tabatabai said, quoted by Fars news agency. "After posting a 500,000-dollar bail ... Mohammad Atrianfar will be freed today."
Alizadeh Tabatabai gave no further details, but another Iranian news agency ILNA said Atrianfar has been sentenced to a six-year, jail term.
8 soldiers killed in Russia blast AFP, Moscow
Eight soldiers died in a munitions blast Monday in central Russia, a defence ministry spokesman said, at the same arms depot where two died in a huge accidental weapons explosion 10 days earlier.
"Eight soldiers died as the result of a munitions blast at the 31st arsenal of the Russian navy in Ulyanovsk," the defence ministry spokesman told AFP.
Six of the men were contract soldiers and two were officers, the Interfax news agency reported, citing the defence ministry.
It was the same facility where two fire-fighters were killed on November 13 in a spectacular series of explosions that shattered windows and lit up the sky as munitions were being detonated in a controlled operation.
French court jails 21 Tamil Tigers
AFP, Paris
A French court on Monday jailed 21 Tamil Tiger militants convicted of extorting millions of euros from the Tamil diaspora in France to fund their armed campaign in Sri Lanka.
The toughest sentence of seven years in was given to Nadaraja Matinthiran, whom the court heard was the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LITE) organisation in France.
Matinthiran was accused of extorting some five million euros (7.4 million dollars) from France's 75,000-strong Tami) community, many of them refugees from the conflict in their homeland.