Jeremy Hainsworth, Vancouver

A Canadian judge today acquitted two Indian-born Sikhs of murder and other charges relating to the deaths of 331 people in bomb outrages on an Air India plane over the Atlantic and at Tokyo’s airport 20 years ago.

TWO men charged in the deadliest terrorist attack on a commercial airliner prior to September 11 will learn their fate in a Canadian courtroom today, as a judge delivers his verdict in the Air India bombings that killed 331 people off the coast of Cork.

The two men charged in the deadliest terrorist attack on a commercial airliner prior to September 11 will learn their fate in a Canadian courtroom tomorrow as a judge delivers his verdict in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people.

Britain's foreign secretary Jack Straw praised India and Pakistan today for their agreement to resume bus services across the military line that divides Kashmir, and urged the long-time nuclear rivals to find a way to friendship.

FIRE engulfed the rear three coaches of a moving express train in northern India early yesterday, killing at least 39 passengers and injuring 20 others, police said.

THE two men accused of masterminding the aircraft’s destruction have pleaded not guilty to murder in a Vancouver court.

SERVING and retired gardaí, forensic and air accident investigators from Ireland are among witnesses listed to be called to give evidence at the trial of two men accused of the 1985 Air India atrocity.

THE LE Aisling was one of the first ships to arrive at the scene of the felled Air India Flight 182, around four hours after air traffic controllers at Shannon lost contact with the Boeing 747 jet airliner.

A SIKH militant has admitted killing 329 people on board an Air India jet that was blown up 110 miles south of the Cork coast in 1985.

A Sikh militant today today admitted killing 329 people who died on board an Air India jumbo jet when it was blown up in 1985.

Mumbai police have released a taped conversation between Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt and underworld chief Chhota Shakeel in which the mafia boss talks of killing heart-throb Hrithik Roshan.