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Top News At least 35 organisations representing NRIs in the US have urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to contest the US' denial of a visa to Narendra Modi. Members of the Coalition Against Genocide (CAG), in an open letter to Singh on Saturday said, "the denial of visa to Modi is a clear victory for all Indians and for supporters of human rights and justice in the US and in India." Meanwhile, US papers reported there were widespread unrest in India to protest the U.S. denial of visa to a "state official" due to his role in religious riots in 2002. Nearly 150 activists barged into the warehouse of U.S.-based PepsiCo in the western city of Surat, smashed bottles and set fire to the place, said Dharmesh Joshi, a witness. The demonstrators were from the Bajrang Dal, a group affiliated with Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which governs Gujarat state. Some carried placards reading: "Down with the United States," "Boycott the U.S. goods and the Americans." The State Department had no immediate comment, spokesman Noel Clay said Saturday in Washington. The Indian prime minister said the U.S. government had been clearly told of his nation's concern at the visa denial. "We have also called for the urgent reconsideration of decision by the U.S. government," Singh said in a statement in India's parliament. The decision, he said, showed a lack of sensitivity and courtesy to an elected authority. Modi, who had been scheduled to address associations of hotel and motel owners in New York and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and to meet with Indians living in several U.S. cities, has called the decision an insult to India.

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Kolkata Test Day five: Anil Kumble took 7-63 as India wrapped up victory in the second Test against Pakistan by 195 runs in Calcutta. The leg-spinner finished with match figures of 10-161 in Pakistan's first ever defeat at Eden Gardens.
Kumble removed Younis Khan with the first ball of the final day and bowled skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq before Taufeeq Umar edged Laxmipathy Balaji to slip. Kumble and Harbhajan Singh (2-51) then ran through the middle and lower order to put India 1-0 up with one Test left.

Brief Scores: India 407 & 407-9 dec bt Pakistan 393 & 226 by 195 runs.

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