Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said there could not be any “substantive” negotiation with Pakistan unless the “biggest problem” of “trust deficit” was overcome.
In his press conference, Dr Singh said India was willing to discuss all outstanding issues with Pakistan if that country ensured that its soil was not used for terrorism against India.

Pakistan and China on Monday agreed to hold joint military exercises, an official statement said.

Expressing concern on the condition of Indian agriculture, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid stress on increasing farm productivity in order to ensure food security.
“Addressing key constraints in the modernisation of agriculture and in the expansion of infrastructure need long-term strategies backed by stepped up investment,” said the Prime Minister.

With Bihar’s caste cauldron already getting politically spiced up ahead of the Assembly polls, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is busy appeasing his core caste constituency of Yadavs, who had largely shifted allegiance to the ruling JD(U)-BJP in recent years to deliver successive electoral jolts to the RJD.

B. Suresh-trained First Emperor, ridden by C. Velu, won the Madras Race Club Cup, the main event of the races held here on Sunday.

Moves are afoot between the Maharashtra Congress and the Shiv Sena-BJP to ensure that there is no contest for the six Rajya Sabha and 10 Legislative Council seats whose elections will be held next month. This is because major political parties can ensure victory of their candidates without a fight.

Don Valentino and Icebreaker impressed when the following horses were exercised on the trial track here on Sunday.

It will be the first press conference that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be addressing in the last four years. It will also mark his first interaction with the national media during the tenure of United Progressive Alliance-2, which completed its first year in office just a day ago.

Irfan Ghatala-trained Sun Kingdom, ably ridden by Suraj Narredu, bagged the Juvenile Million, the highlight of the races held here on Sunday.

The Delhi cabinet is likely to take up the issue of increasing the registration fee for different categories of vehicles on Monday.
The proposal, about which the government had informed during the budget, is aimed at creating different slabs of registration fees for different kinds of vehicles. The cars i