Affirming the BJP's strong support for a separate Telangana, senior party leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj tonight said the NDA would not team up with any party which is opposed to the cause. 

Affirming the BJP's strong support for a separate Telangana, senior party leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj tonight said the NDA would not team up with any party which is opposed to the cause. 

The police today recovered a hijacked 10-wheeler truck of the Indian ExplosivesLtd carrying 15 metric tonnes of powerful explosives in Hazaribagh district. 

Five ultras, including most wanted Naxal Laka Pahan, have been arrested in Jharkhand, a senior police officer said today. 

An accused in the murder of Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh alias Mukhiyaji today surrendered before the Bhojpur district police chief M R Naik, a senior police official said. 

Fearing clashes over the successorship issue of late Baba Jai Gurudev, the Mathura district administration has imposed prohibitory orders, police said today. 

The Opposition Congress today claimed that most of the MoUs signed by the Gujarat government in the last ten years have failed to materialise, even as the number of unemployed youth has swelled during this period. 

Scotching media speculation about her foray into Maharashtra politics through a specially carved out party front, NCP MP Supriya Sule today asserted that she was happy working as a parliamentarian. 

Traffic on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway was thrown out of gear following a pile-up involving several cars, due to oil spill near the Kamshet tunnel this afternoon, police said. 

A US court has issued a restraining order against an Indian-origin Long Island pharmacist after he assaulted a disabled 72-year-old president of New York Kali Mandir Hindu Temple. 

Pakistan's Supreme Court today rejected a request for the formation of a larger bench to hear a suo moto case regarding the alleged payment of about Rs 400 million by a real estate tycoon to Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's son. 

The ongoing wave of violence continued unabated in the Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province, when four policemen were killed by unknown gunmen today. 

The Uttar Pradesh government today suspended 20 senior health officials after their names cropped up in an ongoing CBI probe into the embezzlement of over Rs 10,000 crore of the National Rural Health Mission fund. 

Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha today said it was the media and not the party which has been projecting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate.  

Comedian Russell Brand is all set to share the stage with Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama in Manchester. 

The Union government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Andhra Pradesh high court order quashing the 4.5 per cent reservation for minorities within the 27 percent OBC quota in central educational institutions such as IITs.

China will open more sections of its iconic Great Wall to accommodate an increasing number of visitors for one of the world's most famous tourist attractions, official media reported today. 

The Egyptian state television has come out with an adverstisement warning people against talking to foreigners who could turn out to be spies, a move slammed by social media users who say it will only help increase levels of xenophobia in society. 

The BJP today said a letter to Team Anna on the coal mining issue is not the need of the hour and the government should order a full-fledged probe into the scam to bring out the truth. 

The Karnataka government was planning to take over the ashram of controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda at Bidadi near Bangalore, taking into view alleged objectionable activities taking place there, Law Minister Suresh Kumar said today. 

Four French soldiers were killed in an attack on a convoy of NATO-led troops in eastern Afghanistan by a Taliban suicide bomber in a burqa. 

Arms dealer Abhishek Verma and his wife, arrested for allegedly receiving money from a Swiss arms company to delist them from the companies blacklisted by Indian government, were sent to seven-day Central Bureau of Investigation custody by a Delhi court today.  

Verma and his wife Ancia Neascu were placed under arrest on  Friday by CBI after they failed to give convincing answers to the investigation agency which registered a fresh case against him on Friday.

Verma, who had been earlier arrested by CBI in connection with alleged fake passport and leaking of secret commercial information from Naval war room to foreign companies, was called to the agency headquarters on Friday morning along with his wife.

The duo were extensively questioned by the sleuths regarding transactions of funds between Ganton India and Ganton USA, which are claimed to be his front companies, and about his business relationships with estranged associate C Edmon Allen who has leveled series of allegations against him with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

After Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur rejected the Centre's 'one-nation one-test' proposal and decided to conduct its own entrance exam from next year, IIT-Delhi alumni association is pushing IIT-Delhi to follow the suit.

A decision is expected to be taken next week when the senate of IIT-Delhi meet in New Delhi next week.

"In all likelihood, IIT-Delhi senate seems to be geared up to follow the suit of IIT-Kanpur senate," IIT Delhi alumni president Somnath Bharti told PTI.In its Friday's meeting, the senate of IIT-Kanpur had said.

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on May 28 had announced that from 2013, aspiring candidates for IITs and other central institutes like NITs and IIITs will have to sit under a new format of common entrance test, which will also take plus two board results into consideration.

With the government ruling out their demands, Team Anna today said their indefinite fast fromJuly 25 will go on as planned and alleged that the government was playing with words and has left questions unanswered on the issue of corruption.

Team Anna member Manish Sisodia said the government was trying to fool the people by passing off corruption using "hollow words" like "progressive laws" will be enacted.

"Our protest from July 25 will go on as planned. The government is trying to show off and fool people by using hollow words like progressive laws will enacted," he told PTI.

Sisodia said the activists have raised pertinent questions regarding coal block allocation and other corruption charges against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his 14 cabinet colleagues."The letter the PMO has written to Anna Hazare does not\ give any proof that the allegations we have raised are false," he said.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav wife Dimple Yadav elected unopposed from Kannauj Lok Sabha seat. 

Sanju Katiyar (Independent), withdrew their nominations leaving Dimple the only candidate in the electoral fray, Additional Electoral Officer Ramesh Chand Yadav said.

After the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party decided against fielding their nominees and the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate failed to file his nomination papers at the last minute, Dimple was expected to get a walkover on the seat vacated by her husband Akhilesh Yadav when he became the chief minister and was elected to the Legislative Council.

Reacting to remarks by the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanaswamy, Team Anna today said the government was trying to cover up coal allocation matter.

The PMO rejected SIT probe into coal allocation, which was demanded by Team Anna. 

The PMO has written a letter to Anna Hazare rejecting all corruption charges levelled against the PM over the alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks.

Slamming Team Anna, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanaswamy said, "Anna Hazare is surrounded by anti-national elements."

The Prime Minister's Office today wrote to Team Anna on coal blocks allocation. "Allegations against the prime minister are based on media reports. Coal charges are baseless. The CAG report on coal allocation has not been tabled in the Parliament yet. The government will respond to charges once report is tabled," wrote Narayanaswamy said. "All decision on coal blocks allocation were as per the law, No rules have been flouted," he added. 

Team Anna members Prashant and Shanti Bhushan's allegations had accused the PM of corruption for the first time when they referred to a draft CAG report on allocation blocks when he held charge of coal ministry.

Rejecting Team Anna's allegations of corruption against him, the PM had declared he will quit public life if the charges on coal block allotments are proved.

Rajya Sabha member and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has decided against taking a bungalow allotted to him by the government in New Delhi.

"I am not keen on staying in a government house. It will be a waste of the taxpayers' money. I would prefer to stay in a hotel in Delhi on my own expenses," Tendulkar told CNN-IBN. "I do not need a bungalow just too stay for few days.'

Tendulkar had been allotted 5 Tughlak Lane bungalow, a type VII accommodation normally given to cabinet-rank ministers. The stately house in Lutyen's zone is just opposite the house of Rahul Gandhi, who stays at 12 Tughlak Lane

A Std XII student, was killed by her father in Sonipat on the outskirts of New Delhi. The girl wanted to marry a boy from the same village.

When she did not bow down to family pressure, her father Brajesh Singh used her dupatta to strangle her and then turned himself in to the police, reports NDTV. 

Singh, who works as a security guard, in a factory told the police, how he tried to persuade his daughter to give up on marrying the boy, and even stopped her from going to school midway, while she was in class 12. When nothing worked, he killed her. Her mother says the boy her daughter wanted to marry was like an uncle, which is why they were against it. 

Spain appeared to be on the verge of seeking a bailout from the European Union this weekend to avert a meltdown of its troubled banking sector.

Government officials in various European capitals and EU authorities in Brussels said on Friday evening that they are standing by to act immediately if the Spanish government finally makes a request for EU aid.

However, no conference calls of euro zone finance ministers or other meetings are planned for Saturday as reported by some agencies earlier, the officials said.

Various estimates suggested that Spain, euro-zone's fourth largest economy, might need between 60 billion euro and 100 billion euro to prop up the country's banking sector, crippled by its massive involvement in the real estate bubble in 2008.

The euro zone bailout fund, the European Financial stability Facility, has sufficient capital to meet Spain's immediate requirements to capitalise the distressed banks, the officials said.

Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta is likely to testify next week in his defence at insider trading trial, his lawyer told the court as the prosecution rested its case and the defence presented a video testimony from top Berkshire Hathaway executive India-born Ajit Jain.

After the jury was dismissed on Friday for the weekend, Gupta's lawyer Gary Naftalis told Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan federal court about the possibility of Gupta taking the witness stand in his trial, which began on May 21.

"It was represented to me at the sidebar that Gupta would likely take the stand, given the background of what the court has said," Rakoff asked Gupta's defense lawyers.

Naftalis replied that, "I can say that it's highly likely that my client will testify."The revelation about Gupta testifying came as his defence team discussed with the judge its schedule and witness line-up after the prosecution said they were resting their case.

As Pranab Mukherjee's name as the United Progressive Alliance candidate for the President's post gathered further momentum, he said, "One can't become a president by just wishing.  The party (Congress) will take a call on presidential candidate."

UPA sources said Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who has been authorised by the party's Working Committee to pick the candidate, is likely to make the announcement around June 15. The Congress is now reaching out to allies outside the UPA for consensus on Mukerjee's nomination.

The Congress is in touch with the Samajwadi Party and is expected to be speaking to key ally and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee soon, according to a CNN-IBN report.

The West Bengal Chief Minister had earlier expressed reservations on Mukhrejee as a Presidential candidate.  

New Delhi's ambassador to Washington Nirupama Rao made clear on Friday that India is positioning itself to fill a vacuum that will be created in 2014 when most US and western troops leave Afghanistan.

From a range of economic development projects to training Afghan security officers to combating a Taliban resurgence, Rao says India intends to prevent "a regression in Afghanistan to the situation it was before 2001."

India and other nations in southeast Asia "have a stake in peace, stability, and prosperity" in Afghanistan, Rao said during a forum in Washington. "Afghanistan does represent a security challenge for us."

During talks in India this week, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta urged Indian leaders to take on a larger role in Afghanistan's future. Nancy Powell, US ambassador to India, applauded a recent announcement that Afghan security forces would be trained by Indian officers on Indian soil.  

The army has rescued around 400 civilians trapped in landslides in Khardung La in Ladakh. Situated at 18, 380 feet, Khardung La is said to be the highest motorable mountain pass in the world.  

A joint operation by the Army and the police rescued the civilians trapped in 150 vehicles last night. Among those trapped were women and children, reports NDTV.

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