A tenacious computer worm which has wriggled its way onto machines worldwide is set to evolve on April Fool's Day, becoming harder to exterminate but not expected to wreak havoc. A task force assembled by Microsoft has been working to stamp out the worm, referred to as Conficker or DownAdUP, and the US software colossus has placed a bounty of 250,000 dollars on the heads of those responsible for the threat.

Amid camera flashes and the occasional shoving match between photographers, specifications and on-sale dates for the highly anticipated Tata Nano were finally announced at two elaborate media events here on Monday.

“We have made a promise and we have kept that promise,” Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, said during the first press gathering, held in the Taj Hotel.

Five Indian soldiers and two Muslim rebels were killed in a gunbattle in Kashmir on Sunday, police said, a day after Pakistani and Indian troops traded fire across the de facto border.

The deaths came during some of the fiercest fighting for months and follow Saturday's cross-border firing that left one Indian soldier dead.

The fighting on Sunday erupted in northern Kupwara district as Indian troops launched a search operation in thick forest.

Shrugging off the T20 defeats, India bounced back with a solid batting display to spank New Zealand by 53 runs on the basis of Duckworth-Lewis method in the rain-marred first Cricket one-dayer and take 1-0 lead in the five-match series in Napier on Tuesday.

India rode on skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni's unbeaten 84 and blistering half-centuries by Virender Sehwag (77) and Suresh Raina (66) to rattle up 273 for 4 in 38 overs and then put up a disciplined bowling performance to prevent the Kiwis from upstaging them.