PMs comments spark fission The Left parties on Saturday reacted angrily over Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs unprovoked challenge to them to withdraw support to the government.
Ansari sworn in The 70-year-old Ansari was administered the oath of office by President Pratibha Patil in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other top leaders at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Police foil terror attack plan; JeM chief killed Saifullah Kari, the self-styled divisional commander of the JeM, was killed and one of associates captured in an injured condition by a joint team of Jammu and Delhi Police in Janipura area of the city.
Assam bleeds ahead of I-Day The guerrillas of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and another tribal militia killed 14 Hindi-speaking people at a remote hamlet in the States Karbi Anglong district late at night on Friday.
Stretch of memory... People take a 151-metre-long chadar to the Taj Mahal in Agra on Saturday. This seven-coloured chadar, believed to be the longest in the world, was offered by religious heads of various faiths on the occasion of the 352nd Urs ceremony of the Mughal emperor. The Urs ceremony is observed on the death anniversary of Shah Jahan.
India’s nuclear deal with the United States has generated a lot of heat and dust.
Who is the principal beneficiary of this “historic” deal -- India or the US?
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