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SP leaders consulted former prez Kalam on the nuclear deal, who told them that the deal was beneficial for the country and could be scrapped anytime if warranted.

Calling its day-long nationwide bandh over the Amarnath land allotment row a "success", VHP said it will continue its protests from July 5 -12 across the country.

The SC has dismissed a petition by a lawyers' body questioning the use of brain-mapping and narco-analysis by the CBI to probe the murder of Aarushi.

Twenty people, including four women, were killed and 28 injured when the bus carrying them rammed into a tree at Gadappu area of Nainital district.

The ongoing truckers' strike entered the second day on Thursday even as transporters expressed optimism of finding a solution soon.

General Deepak Kapoor said with inflation hovering at 11 per cent, for the first time since India-China war in 1962, defence budget had fallen below two per cent of GDP.

The nationwide bandh called by BJP and VHP turned violent in Indore leaving two persons killed, while highways were blocked and trains stopped in other cities.

The UNPA said the PM won't get any certificate of support on nuclear deal before July 6. SP said the sub-text of the deal will be put forward before a trusted expert.

CPI leader A B Bardhan accused the government of indulging in deceptive campaign on the nuke deal. He said CPI would ask the Centre as to when it is going to the IAEA.

Two militants, including Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba's chief operational commander for Kashmir region, were killed in a gunfight in Pulwama district on Thursday.

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Samajwadi Party, which will be briefed by NSA M K Narayanan on the nuclear deal, is expected to support the agreement at the UNPA meeting.

An indefinite curfew was clamped on Jammu, a day after violent protests against the revocation of land transfer to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board injured 80 people.

The damages were suffered despite the FCI spending Rs 242 crore while trying to prevent any loss of food grains during storage.

Unlike other routine crime reports quickly scanned and readily forgotten, the shocking murder of the Noida teenager has been closely followed by people from every age group and every walk of life.

Kerala and Tamil Nadu are locked in a dispute over the height up to which water can be stored in the 111-year-old dam

Orissa home secretary T K Mishra said in Bhubaneswar that had the Greyhounds commandoes been cautious, Sunday's ambush wouldn't have happened.

The Central Information Commission has slapped a penalty of Rs 25,000 on the School of Planning and Architecture's public information officer for inaction on a Right to Information.