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The North-East is staring at a probable drought this year as temperature remains high with a severe deficit of rainfall.

Centre will provide liberal financial assistance to Jammu and Kashmir for its all round development,especially in the health sector,Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said.

Normal life was affected for second day in Maoist-infested districts of West Midnapore,Purulia and Bankura during the 48-hour bandh.

The crisis in Uttarakhand BJP on Monday appeared to be far from over as top leaders of the party's Core Group

Stung by terror during Nov 26 strikes,the city police received a shot in the arm in the form of 207 new vehicles,including three armoured vehicles.

Six employees of an Indore-based private firm were abducted by dacoits from a government irrigation site in the district on Sunday evening....

Army foiled militants bid to target Amarnath yatra by detecting and defusing an improvised explosive device on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.

The Centre on Monday banned the CPI (Maoists) as terrorist organisation under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

Vilasrao Deshmukh demanded that the state unit president convene the executive committee to discuss the matter.

AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa asked Karunanidhi to immediately prevail upon the Centre to retrieve Katchatheevu.

TRS leaders are making desperate attempts to placate K Chandrasekhar Rao to withdraw his resignation as party president.

WB CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee met Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister P Chidamabaram and apprised them of the situation in Lalgarh.

Maoist leaders at Lalgarh are willing to come to the negotiation table if the government agrees to accede to their demands.

Maoist leader Koteswar Rao said that the state govt should stop the police operation in Lalgarh and hold talks with the people to find a solution to their problems.

Security forces stormed Lalgarh and without much resistance reclaimed the police station under control of Maoists,who had cut off the area in West Midnapore district for eight months.

Six students returning to school after summer vacation and their teacher have been killed in a road mishap on Singhana-Jhunjhunoo road,police said.

All India Conference of the CPI (ML) will be organised in Bhopal from November 8 to 12,a party office bearer said.

'Scared' of honey bees,Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has changed his route in the state secretariat.

Security forces have recovered a huge quantity of explosives and ammunition from Pohalgai area,190 kms from Jammu.

Trinamool Congress said it neither has any connection with the extremists nor supports its ideology or action.

Amarnath yatra resumed on Friday,after it remained suspended for three days due to inclement weather,with a batch of 1,860 pilgrims leaving from here for their onward journey to the cave shrine in south Kashmir.

State general secretary Tirath Singh Rawat has confirmed that the party has initiated disciplinary action against some of the functionaries.

After an eventful day marked by the resignation of former Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshiyari from Rajya Sabha and his supporters heading to Delhi,there is a lull in Uttarakhand for the time being with all eyes set on the forthcoming meeting of the BJP’s national executive on June 20 and 21.