Not just NSA office, other governmental offices were targeted on Dec 15, the same date that US defence, finance and technology companies, including Google, reported cyber attacks from China.

NSA Narayanan who is taking over as West bengal governor soon, told The Times, London said: “This was not the first instance of an attempt to hack into our computers.” He added that the would-be hackers sent an e-mail with a PDF attachment containing a Trojan virus.

The virus (allows hackers to download or delete files) was detected and officials were advised not to log on until it was eliminated, Narayanan said.

“People seem to be fairly sure it was the Chinese. It is difficult to find the exact source but this is the main suspicion. It seems well founded,” The Times report said.

The NSA also said that India was cooperating with the US and Britain to bolster its cyber defences.

Meanwhile, the Chinese government has denied any role in the attacks.

Narayanan also said that while he expected China to be an increasingly high security priority for India, the main threat still came from militants based in Pakistan.

He said Islamabad had done nothing to dismantle militant groups since the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, and criticised Britain for accepting its excuse that such groups were beyond its control.

Narayanan told the UK newspaper that India is anxious to prevent an attack from Pakistan during the Commonwealth Games in October this year.

In another development, The Indian Express have revealed that it is almost certain that former Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon will take over from Narayanan as the post of National Security Advisor.

The reposrt said that details are being worked out on the work profile of his successor keeping in mind the critical role of the NSA in the Nuclear Command Authority (NCA).

Although the road is in Demchok area of south-east Leh of Ladakh and well within the Indian side on the Line of Actual Control but objections by the Chinese Army enforced the Jammu and Kashmir government to discontinue work on the development.

“This road is especially much below our territory. Indo-Tibetan Border Police is too conscious of the road. Local residents are disappointed with Chinese army coming to our region,” said Chief Executive Councillor of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Chering Dorjay told CNN-IBN.

Demchok is the final populated region on the Line of Actual Control. The road was being constructed to perk up connectivity in the region and to offer employment to local residents. China has a related road on the other side to which India did not point.

The municipal court in Shijiazhuang, in an announcement cited by the state news agency Xinhua, said Zhang Yujun was executed for manufacturing and selling hundreds of tons of toxic protein powder, and Geng Jinping was put to death for selling over 900 tons of contaminated milk.

Dairy producers and middlemen laced milk, milk powders and infant formula with an industrial chemical, melamine, usually used in production of plastics, fertilizer and pesticides. The melamine was added to trick inspectors into thinking the milk was high in protein. But the chemical caused kidney stones, kidney failure and additional health problems. Children were the most gravely affected.

Mr. Geng sold his milk to the Sanlu Group, the dairy corporation at the center of the scandal and the largest of 22 companies that were finally implicated in the poisonings. News of the scandal broke in September of last year.

Sanlu, which was bankrupted by the matter, was based in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province in northern China. The former chairwoman of the Sanlu board, Tian Wenhua, was sentenced to life in prison.

Xinhua said 21 people have been tried and convicted this year in association with the milk scandal: Mr. Zhang and Mr. Geng were sentenced to death and one more man received a suspended death sentence. Mrs. Tian and two others got life sentences and 15 received jail terms of between 2 and 15 years.

The government said the 22 companies that sold the tainted products have decided to compensate most affected families, paying amounts ranging from $290 to $29,000, depending on how badly children were sickened.

Talking at the opening session of the annual HT Leadership Summit here on Friday, Manmohan Singh articulated the expectation that democracy would take deeper roots in all the neighboring countries.

“I believe Pakistan is grappling with many domestic troubles… terrorism is one of them and I hope for victory in that. And without going into larger particulars, I would like to state that as I mentioned yesterday (Thursday) and day before yesterday the destinies of our two countries, and certainly the destinies of all countries of South Asia are strongly interlinked,” said Manmohan Singh.

Stressing that India required excellent relationships with all its neighbours, the prime minister said: “We genuinely wish to decide all outstanding issues with our neighbours in the course of conversation… that should distinguish our associations.”

His remarks come two days after he presented Pakistan a “hand of friendship” in the Kashmir Valley. “There are difficulties in increasing areas of collaboration, but they have to be conquered. And I suppose it is for the leadership of all countries to create the future happen,” said Manmohan Singh.

“We (want) to survive in peace with our neighbours and world generally. We wish to stay as good neighbours and good global nation. We look for good relations with each one of them (neighboring countries)…” the Prime Minister added.

“In only some unique cases…the revival is advancing so swiftly that production gaps are by now starting to shut and pressures are already rising,” the International Monetary Fund said in a regional economic outlook report, released in Seoul.

It called the three economies unique cases, at the same time adding a tightening of monetary policy appeared pointless elsewhere in the area in the in the vicinity of future.

It is too advised Asian central banks not to elevate interest rates just too tranquil asset price increase, saying lifting rates ahead of advanced economies could magnetize “carry trade-type” capital inflows and worsen asset price pressures.

“For all these reasons, it would appear preferable, at least originally, to tackle incipient asset price pressures through besieged prudential actions rather than the blunt instrument of monetary policy,” it said.

The Washington-based organization did not state economies facing predominantly grave asset price pressures.

The conference on the sidelines of a regional summit in Thailand would be the initial high-level contact between the two nations following recent months of political barbs led to extraordinary levels of tension and uncertainties that the opposition might spin out of control.

Relations have warmed in recent years, generally on the back of reciprocal trade anticipated to pass $60 billion next year, a 30-fold increase since the year 2000.

But tensions have risen in the previous few months accompanied by reports in Indian media of Chinese border incursions, and an opposition by Beijing to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama’s planned visit next month to Arunachal Pradesh that China claims as its individual territory.

“The visit of the Dalai Lama is seen as not only reinforcing India’s claim on Arunachal Pradesh, but also boosting the Tibetan struggle by undermining Chinese territorial integrity,” said Bhaskar Roy, a New Delhi-based strategic analyst on China.

And Beijing would like to make sure that this latest age group of Tibetan exiles based in northern India is not used as a bargaining fragment by New Delhi in future, analysts say.

“All of this is reflected in its reaction to its failure to assimilate Tibet,” said strategic analyst Prem Shankar Jha.

Joint distrust lingers from a short war the two sides fought in 1962 and the existence of the Dalai Lama in India bothers Beijing, as does India’s increasing dealings with the United States.

“This meeting would be about building confidence that has taken a knock in recent months — weeding out misapprehensions, clearing of the air,” Roy said.

The two sides have too struggled to resolve their border disagreement. Every side claims vast swathes of the other’s province all along their 3,500-km (2,173-mile) Himalayan border.

China puts down claim to 90,000 sq km of land on the eastern division of the border in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. India says China inhabits 38,000 square km (15,000 square miles) of region in Aksai Chin plateau.

Although a fresh war is very improbable, the troubled border between the world’s two most heavily populated countries has the prospective to stimulate tensions destabilizing additional a region already roiled.

“I wish to point out that at present Chinese-Indian relations have maintained a healthy direction of development,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said on Tuesday.