Even one racist attack is unacceptable: Aus PM

A day after news broke on the attack on two more Indians in Australia, the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told NDTV that no attack was acceptable to the government.


On Tuesday, two more attacks were reported against Indians in Melbourne . While a student from Hyderabad was mugged, an Indian taxi driver was attacked by passengers.

And in the backdrop of the continuing attacks, a new survey has said that 85 per cent Australians feel that racial discrimination is rampant in the country with one in five of them being a victim of verbal abuse.

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Youngest 26/11 witness identifies Qasab as CST gunmen

A ten-year-old girl, rendered disabled during 26/11 terror strikes, on Wednesday identified in court arrested gunman Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab as one of the two gunmen who had fired indiscriminately at passengers inside the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.

Devika Rotawan, the youngest eyewitness to depose in the terror strikes trial, was asked by the court if she could identify the gunman among the three accused present in the dock.

All three accused, including Qasab stood in the dock, and the ten-year-old pointed at the Pakistani gunman.

He, however, did not react.

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