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June 24, 2010 12:19 PM

China-Pak deal should be within IAEA purview: EU

Amid India's concerns over the China-Pakistan nuclear deal, the European Union has said any such agreement should respect the guidelines spelt out by the world nuclear watchdog IAEA. The visiting EU's Representative for foreign affairs and security policy told this to reporters here in reply to...

June 24, 2010 12:15 PM

Saraswat asks Defence Engineers to develop counter technologies

Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister Mr. V.K. Saraswat has asked Defence Engineers to develop counter technologies to the modern equipments being acquired by terrorist and disruptive forces.<br/>In his convocation address at the Ministry College of Electronic and Mechanical Engineeri...

June 24, 2010 12:14 PM

Parliamentary panel to visit nuclear plant at Kalpakkam

Members of the Parliamentary panel examining the controversial nuclear liability bill will soon be visiting nuclear plant at Kalpakkam to gain first hand experience on operations being carried out at such facilities. This was decided at a meeting of the members of the committee chaired by T Subbiram...

June 24, 2010 11:23 AM

Moily announces National Litigation Policy to reduce delays in cases

Law Miniater Veerappa Moily has said that the launch of the National Litigation Policy is aimed at preventing the Bhopal Gas Leak like cases in future. He said, it will also help reducing the number of pending cases in the courts across the country. Launching the new Policy in New Delhi, Mr. Moily a...

June 24, 2010 10:31 AM

Bhagwat stresses need to prepare vision document to reclaim lost territories

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Dr. Mohan Bhagwat has stressed the need to prepare a vision document to reclaim the lost territories including parts of Kashmir and strive to unite the Akhand Bharat. Speaking at a book release function in Nagpur last evening, he said merely describing Kashmir as an...

June 24, 2010 9:16 AM

JD (U) condition on Modi, Varun unacceptable :BJP

The BJP has sent mixed signals to its ally JDU on continuing the alliance but rules out keeping Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Varun Gandhi away from the election campaign in Bihar. Party sources said that the reason behind Nitish Kumar returning five crore rupees of flood relief fund to G...

June 24, 2010 9:05 AM

India made significant progress in poverty reduction: UN

<br/> A UN report says India has made significant progress in poverty reduction and the number of poor people in the country is expected to half of the 1990 level by 2015. <br/> According to the 2010 report of the United Nations on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), While I...

June 24, 2010 9:03 AM

Pak releases 17 Indian prisoners

<br/> Seventeen Indians languishing in different Pakistani jails for the past one to 10 years returned home through the Indo-Pak border at Attari near Amritsar. All the Indians, most of them incarcerated for inadvertently crossing over to Pakistan, could return on the basis of 'emerge...

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