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U.S-India direct flight: Continental Airlines is set to start daily non-stop service between New Jersey and New Delhi from November. Homeland security: Prakash Khatri, ombudsman in the Homeland Secutity Department, has not minced words in his Annual Report 2005 now before Congress. Daniel Pearl Case: Police and intelligence agents on July 27 arrested a man suspected of luring Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to his death. Fire at Bombay High: An offshore oil platform of the Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) at Bombay High was destroyed in a major fire on July 27. Five Sikhs Detained: Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized to a group of Sikh tourists from Britain who were handcuffed and forced to kneel on a Broadway sidewalk after the driver of the sightseeing bus they were traveling on alerted the police on July 24. WTO appointments: Harsha Vardhan Singh, secretary with India's telecom regulatory body, has been named one of the four deputy director generals of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). 15 killed in Kashmir: Separatist guerrillas unleashed a wave of terror in Jammu and Kashmir killing 15 people and triggered fierce gun battles in this summer capital that raged until midnight on June 29. A CRPF trooper was killed after fidayeen guerrillas carried out a attack at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on July 29 evening. page 4