France for N-deal with India after IAEA pact Keen to have civil nuclear cooperation with India, France has said it was waiting for New Delhi to ink the safeguards agreement with IAEA and get an exemption from 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
Two Brahmins inducted
Maya shakes up her cabinet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday expanded her one year old ministry inducting two cabinet ministers, while elevating the status of two ministers of state.
Terror: India among worst hit India was among the countries worst hit by terrorism in 2007 with over 2,300 deaths but the governments counter-terrorism efforts remained hampered by ill-equipped law enforcement machinery and slow and laborious legal systems, the US State Department has said.
Speaker approaches privileges panel This is for the first time that a Speaker has taken such a serious view of unruly scenes in the House, sending across a message that "enough is enough" and that discipline and decorum should be maintained at all cost.
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