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Kathmandu, Sep 4 (IANS) India's Railways Minister and former chief minister of flood-plagued Bihar state Lalu Prasad has scrapped his proposed visit to neighbour Nepal after the external affairs ministry advised him against it.Lalu Prasad, who has been blaming his rival, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, for the breach in ... Read more...

Singur/Kolkata, Aug 31 (IANS) The protests in Singur crippling work at auto major Tata Motors' Nano plant continued Sunday, as agitation leader Mamata Banerjee turned down an appeal from West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi for a mediator to resolve the stalemate."We are at Singur," Tata Motors said amid speculation ... Read more...

Kolkata, Aug 31 (IANS) The Tata Motors' small car Nano, if rolled out from West Bengal's Singur plant, will help in the state's development, said External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee here Sunday."The Singur issue has become a serious problem for every one. But if Nano rolls out from the Tata ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 29 (ANI): External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that New Delhi is working with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) countries to secure a clean waiver on the India-US civilian nuclear deal. "We have made it quite clear that we are interested in the clean waiver from ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 29 (ANI): Nepal''s Foreign Affairs Upendra Yadav has said that India has offered to help his country in tackling floods. Yadav, the chief of the debutant Terai party, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum, discussed issues of mutual importance to both countries with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) India and Nepal Thursday discussed ways to deal with the aftermath of floods that have severely affected people in both countries as Kathmandu sought to clear the air over Prime Minister Prachanda's recent trip to China. In the first high-level contact between India and Nepal ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Nepali Prime Minister Prachanda will come to India next month and it will be his first "political visit" abroad after ascending to the post last week, Nepal's Ambassador Durgesh Man Singh has said. "He will come here next month before he goes for the UN ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) With likely changes in the Nuclear Suppliers Group draft waiver eliciting strong political opposition, the Indian government Sunday held a meeting to fine-tune a strategy for handling tough negotiations on this issue before the NSG's second meeting early next month.Prime Minister's Special Envoy on India-US ... Read more...

On board a special aircraft, Aug 23 (ANI): External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said that India will not accept any "prescriptive conditionalities" to get an exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to operationalise the Indo-US civil nuclear deal. Mukherjee said so to reporters while accompanying President Pratibha ... Read more...

Patna, Aug 19 (ANI): Following a breach in the Kosi barrage in Nepal, a red alert has been sounded in Supaul, Madhepura and Araria districts of Bihar. A 12 km stream of the Kosi barrage in Nepal territory has developed breach at two places. The barrage is maintained by ... Read more...

New Delhi/Kolkata, Aug 18 (IANS) Hours after Pervez Musharraf resigned as the president of Pakistan, India Monday said it had no intention of getting involved “in internal affairs” of the neighbouring country and made it clear that its relations with Pakistan were not “individual specific".“India will not interfere in Pakistan's ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) With tension in Jammu and Kashmir showing no signs of abating, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday held a meeting of his senior cabinet colleagues to review the situation in the state that has been on the boil for more than two months over the Amarnath ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 16 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today reviewed the ongoing situation of Jammu and Kashmir over the Amarnath land transfer row. Dr. Singh discussed the situation and ways to find a solution with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Defence Minister A K Antony. On Friday ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 16 (ANI): A high-level meeting of the Congress was held here last night to review to the ongoing situation of Jammu and Kashmir over the Amarnath land transfer row. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee discussed the situation and ways to find a solution with PCC president Saifuddin ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 14 (ANI): The Union Cabinet as an Independence Day bonanza for the civil servants, armed forces, paramilitary personnel and central government employees, approved the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations on Thursday. The revised pay structure will ensure that there will be a 40 percent increase in the ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 14 (ANI): The Union Cabinet is likely to put its seal on the Sixth Pay Commission Report, which was tabled in the Parliament earlier this year, but not implemented till now. A high level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh last evening discussed the pay ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) The three-day assembly of Indian heads of mission scheduled to begin here from Aug 20 has been called off because the forthcoming meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) in Vienna is "priority one" right now for the foreign policy establishment. Heads of Indian missions ... Read more...

Jammu , August 9 (ANI): An all party delegation led by Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Saturday held a meeting with the Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti in Jammu this afternoon. After the meeting, the Convenor of the Samiti Leela Karan Sharma told reporters that they have put up ... Read more...

Kolkata, Aug 9 (IANS) The Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) will now be known as EEPC India. The renamed entity will expand its array of activities from only promotion of engineering goods exports to promotion of two-way engineering trade and investment, the council announced here. Unveiling the new logo of ... Read more...

Kolkata, Aug 9 (IANS) It is the duty of the government to give shelter to every guest of the country, said External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Saturday here, while referring to Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who left India in March, returned to New Delhi Friday and was immediately shifted to ... Read more...

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 9 (IANS) Kerala Sports Minister M. Vijayakumar Saturday said the conditions laid down by the external affairs ministry on his visit to the ongoing Beijing Olympics were "an insult" and that he would not attend the mega sporting event. The minister was earlier denied permission to go to ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 9 (ANI): An all-party delegation led by Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will visit Jammu and Srinagar today to end the Amarnath land transfer row. The visit is being undertaken after deliberations in the all-party meeting chaired by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Wednesday to ... Read more...

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 8 (IANS) Kerala Sports Minister M. Vijayakumar, who was denied permission to attend the Beijing Olympics, was Friday evening given the go-ahead after the state government sent a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. But his visit is bound by certain conditions. The letter from the external affairs ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday said its general secretary Arun Jaitley will be part of the all-party delegation to visit Jammu Saturday to talk to those demanding the transfer of land for the Amarnath Hindu shrine pilgrims. Making the announcement, the party said that ... Read more...

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 8 (IANS) The Kerala government has sent a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, expressing its displeasure over state Sports Minister M.Vijayakumar being denied permission to attend the Beijing Olympics, officials said. "The state cabinet discussed this issue at its meeting Wednesday and a letter to this effect ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 8 (ANI): An all-party delegation led by Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will visit Jammu and Srinagar tomorrow to end the Amarnath land transfer row. The visit is being undertaken after deliberations in the all-party meeting chaired by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Wednesday to ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Hectic efforts continued Thursday by the government to find a solution to the land transfer row in Jammu and Kashmir that has assumed serious dimensions. Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee chaired two meetings on the issue Thursday. The meetings came ahead of an all-party delegation's ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Blaming the Congress-led central government for the crisis in Jammu and Kashmir over transfer of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said it will launch a nationwide peaceful protest from Monday. “The crisis in Jammu is the result ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) An empowered group of ministers (EGoM), headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, met Thursday to discuss norms for special economic zones (SEZs), but took no policy decisions, a senior minister said. "The meeting looked into certain operational aspects of SEZs, but no policy decision ... Read more...

Jammu, Aug 7 (IANS) An all-party delegation, including External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister Shivraj Patil, will visit Jammu Saturday to find a solution to the impasse over land for the Amarnath shrine management. The state administration has also invited protesters here for talks. Jammu and Kashmir Governor ... Read more...

Jammu, Aug 7 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra last night appointed a four-member committee for holding talks with the Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti (SASS) to find a solution for the ongoing Amarnath land transfer row. The committee comprising former state chief secretary SS Bloeria, Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University ... Read more...

New Delhi/Jammu/Srinagar, Aug 6 (IANS) An all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday appealed for peace in a desperate bid to end Jammu and Kashmir's worst communal divide in six decades that has claimed at least 14 lives in more than a month. At the all-party meeting's marathon ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) An all-party meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday appealed for peace in a desperate bid to end Jammu and Kashmir's worst communal divide in six decades amid indications that land may be allotted to the Amarnath shrine board for the welfare of pilgrims. ... Read more...

New Delhi, August 6 (ANI): The all party meeting convened by the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to find a solution for to the raging Amarnath land transfer row has ended here today. Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil appealed to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and all political parties ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Leaders of India's political parties Wednesday issued a joint appeal for restoring peace in Jammu and Kashmir, which has been on the boil for over two months now in the wake of the Amarnath shrine land row. "It is imperative that communalisation of the situation ... Read more...

Jammu / New Delhi, Aug 6 (ANI): All eight members of the Amarnath Shrine Board resigned today. The resignations have been submitted to Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra to enable him to reconstitute the board. Earlier in the day, the Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti (SASS), which is ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 6 (ANI): Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP, Rahul Gandhi will today teach his party spokespersons the finer points of energy security and the basics of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal. In the run up to this years state polls and General Elections (in March 2009), ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The government looks set to relaxing the ban on export of non-basmati rice, an issue that dominated the meeting of empowered group of ministers (EGOM) here Tuesday evening. The meeting chaired by Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee reviewed, among other things, the cultivation of ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) In a move to create public support for the controversial India-US civil nuclear deal, the ruling Congress will Wednesday organise a special orientation programme for its spokespersons across the country, in which senior ministers and top officials will explain the nuances of the agreement and ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug.5 (ANI): Visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura, who had meetings with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here today, said that his country did not see the possibility of changing its status quoist positions on nuclear proliferation, having been a victim ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 5 (ANI): The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on foodgrains will meet here today to review food prices and stock situation in the country. The meeting is also likely to review relaxation in ban on exports of non-basmati rice. Headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, group of ... Read more...

Brussels, Aug 4 (IANS) Benita-Ferrero Waldner, European Union commissioner for external relations, Monday condoled the deaths in the stampede at the hill shrine of Naina Devi in Himachal Pradesh, EuAsiaNews reported. "It was with great sadness that I learned of the major accident at the Naina Devi shrine which claimed ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Japan, one of the countries in the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG), wants to "actively participate" in the civil nuclear programme with India and understands New Delhi's growing energy needs, Japan's foreign ministry spokesperson said. Stating that Japan also understands India's quest for "civil nuclear ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 4 (ANI): After getting the approval of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors on the India-specific safeguards agreement, India will seek the support of Japan in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) today. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will meet his Japanese counterpart Masahiko ... Read more...

New Delhi, Aug 4 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai will meet Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here today and will hold talks on bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual concern to both countries. Cooperation between both countries and security related issues are expected to dominate the talks. Vice ... Read more...