Kashmir Valley has been relatively calm since Friday morning even as a youth wounded in the security forces’ firing on protesters in the north-western town of Sopore during that day succumbed in a Srinagar hospital on Saturday leading to the rising of tensions in the area.

Reiterating there can be no talks with India unless it “unambiguously” declares Kashmir as a dispute and meets others conditions set forth by his faction of the Hurriyat Conference for any discourse, senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Saturday announced a new calendar of week-long protests and strikes as part of its “Quit Jammu and Kashmir” campaign.

The government is likely to provide subsidised wheat and rice to 1.5 crore additional BPL families from October 2, food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar told the Rajya Sabha.

The human resources development minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said that there is a shortage of 1.2 million teachers in India and states must speed up the recruitment process to bridge the gap.

Hollywood actress Julia Roberts, whose new film Eat, Pray, Love is due to release soon, has admitted in an interview that she is now a practising Hindu.
The 42-year-old Oscar-winning actress, who had visited India for the shooting of the film, however, did not reveal whether she had converted to Hinduism during her shooting stint in India.

The issue of large-scale corruption in the organisation of the Commonwealth Games 2010 rocked the Lok Sabha forcing Speaker Meira Kumar to adjourn the House amidst heated exchanges between the treasury and the Opposition benches.

The Supreme Court has directed the CBI and DGP of Bihar to arrest former RJD MP Rajesh Ranjan, alias Pappu Yadav, forthwith and put him behind bars for flouting the top court’s order cancelling his bail in the case of the murder of CPI(M) leader Ajit Sarkar.

A day after the MPs drew the government’s attention to the deteriorating quality of material being supplied to the Parliament House catering, the chief commercial manager (catering) took a serious note of it and asked the concerned to pick up the samples on date.

A 44-year-old man on Friday shot at point blank range by two unidentified motorcyclists who fled away with his bag containing Rs 8 lakhs in the Harsh Vihar area. The victim, Mukesh Jindal, was rushed to a near by hospital where he is stated to be in critical condition.

Will the controversial chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi be able to face the Lok Sabha when it will discuss the alleged corruption in the Commonwealth Games projects next week, is a question being discussed in political circles.