India and the US are expected to finalise a crucial agreement on reprocessing under the civil nuclear deal in two weeks,with all but one issue being resolved and negotiations entering the last lap.
India is expected to get information about the plans and network of LeT operatives David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana when an FBI team visits New Delhi with "all details" of their probe.
Maoists began their two-day statewide shutdown on Sunday by blasting a small railway station,tracks and utility buildings at various places in Jharkhand.
Omar Abdullah favoured triangular talks among India,Pakistan and separatist leadership and also offered to be a facilitator if militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen wanted to come to the negotiating table.
A radiation leak at the Kaiga Nuclear Plant in Karnataka's north Kannada district has left 55 employees in the maintenance unit falling sick in the suspected radiation poisoning.
A senior IAS officer allegedly committed suicide at his official residence here by shooting himself early on Sunday,police sources said.
Maoists today blew up a panchayat hall and a school building in Jharkhand's Palamau district,hours before enforcing a 48-hour statewide bandh from Saturday night.
Two persons were injured on Sunday in a bomb blast suspected to have been triggered by Maoists at Amjore village in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district.
The computer-based Common Admission Test in around 50 centres across the country were on Sunday rescheduled to allow necessary repairs to be completed at the labs.
Aimed at taking its reforms process on a fast track,the HRD Ministry plans to introduce three Bills on higher education,including one on setting up of a national accreditation body during the current parliament session.
India and Canada have reached a landmark agreement on civil nuclear cooperation after months of hectic negotiations,paving the way for supply of Canadian atomic technology,equipment and uranium to New Delhi.
The Navy has launched a hunt for a new set of fighter jets to operate from the aircraft carriers it will have in service five to six years from now.
One person was killed and three others were injured in an explosion in a garbage heap that was set on fire in Agra district.
The toll in the twin bomb blasts in Assam's Nalbari town on November 22 rose to eight with a person succumbing to injuries on Saturday,official sources said here.
BSF jawans deployed along the International Border arrested seven Burmese nationals who were trying to cross over to Pakistan.
After her government was reprimanded by HC for granting parole to Manu Sharma,Sheila Dikshit said nothing 'illegal or unlawful' was done in extending the benefit to the prisoner.
The BSF said that Pakistani Rangers are building bunkers along the border which are very 'defensive' in nature.
State Home Minister R R Patil has directed the police to probe the case of the 'missing' bulletproof vest of Anti-Terror Squad chief Hemant Karkare.
Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said that India has drafted a new bill to check corruption and increase accountability in the judiciary.
Central Railway will operate mega block on its suburban sections for carrying out maintenance work.
Reports said there were glitches in certain exam centres in Bangalore,Chennai,Pune,Delhi,Mumbai,Kolkata and Bhopal.
Anil Kakodkar said India's 1998 nuclear test was a 'hundred per cent success'.
A Hizbul Mujahideen militant was shot dead by security forces during an encounter in Kishtwar district.
MoS External Affairs Shashi Tharoor reiterated that India's stand on Iran's nuclear weapons prog has remained consistent.
Armed Maoists blasted two school buildings in Bihar's naxal-hit Gaya district late on Friday night,police said.







