PC owns responsibility of Dantewada attack

Offers resignation, PM rejects

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, Apr 9: Taking responsibility for the worst Naxalite attack on security forces, Home Minister P Chidambaram offered his resignation from the Cabinet to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who today rejected it. “The Home Minister gave it (his resignation) in writing day before yesterday More

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Amitabh Mattoo is President IAIS

New Delhi: Professor Amitabh Mattoo, Professor of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University and member of National Knowledge Commission, will be the first President of the Indian Association of International Studies (IAIS). Professor Mattoo was appointed President at the inaugural function More

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Bazaz defends employees strike

New Delhi: J&K Democratic Forum on Friday termed the employees strike as ‘valid’ and condemned the invoking of Essential Services Maintenance Act against them. Addressing media here, JKDF chief, Pandit Bhushan Bazaz quoted the recently presented State Budget and said the government had enough More

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Uncertainty shrouds Manmohan-Gilani meet

WASHINGTON SUMMIT

SHEIKH AHMED

New Delhi, Apr 9: India is maintaining silence on the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh’s meeting with Pakistan Premier, Syed Reza Gilani in Washington during the nuclear summit next week. The Prime Minister is leaving for Washington tomorrow to attend the summit, which is going to evolve More

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SC to hear plea on easing worship restrictions at Ayodhya

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, Apr 9: The Supreme Court today agreed to consider a plea for removing alleged unreasonable restrictions imposed by the authorities in Ayodhya on worshipping of Lord Rama in the temple at the disputed site. “We will consider your plea,” a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan More

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Cobalt-60 radiation leak in Delhi

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, Apr 9: Experts today identified the material which led to a “very powerful” radiation in a west Delhi industrial area as Cobalt-60, the exposure to which left five persons injured including one seriously. Scientists from the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre and Narora Atomic Power Station More

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27 militants killed in Pak tribal belt

A MUHAMMAD

Peshawar, Apr 9: Pakistani security forces killed at least 27 pro-Taliban militants while repulsing two separate attacks on security check posts in the volatile tribal belt, officials said today.Eighteen militants were killed in a gun battle that erupted after they attacked a check post in the More

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