While a concrete opinion on the probable cause of the incident remains to be ascertained, suspicion heavily rests on the Klub-S (3M-14E) cruise missile that the submarine was redesigned to fire.

The police will file an offence in connection with the blasts in Navy submarine INS Sindhurakshak only after the completion of the Navy’s internal probe. However, sources said that it is very unlikely that the Navy will rope in the local police to prosecute any culprit, if so.

Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday that the nation was pained at Wednesday’s accident that destroyed the INS Sindhurakshak submarine resulting in 18 Naval personnel being feared dead, naval divers have not yet located any survivors or bodies inside the ill-fated submarine.

A 10-year-old boy, who had been brutally thrashed by his teacher at the Abhinaypura Government Primary School in Etawah district, succumbed to his injuries at the SGPGI in Lucknow. The boy’s father Arvind Kumar has now lodged a complaint with the Basrehar police station in Etawah in this regard.

An angry India feels that Iran’s detention of an Indian oil tanker on Tuesday while it was sailing in the Persian Gulf is illegal and without any basis.

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh headed for Beijing just two months from now, the India-China strategic dialogue is all set to be revived after a gap of nearly three years.

In his Independence Day address Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday also highlighted initiatives taken during the two terms of UPA government to enhance educational infrastructure in the country.

Call it the Durga Nagpal effect or the political turmoil in Uttar Pradesh, but a large number of bureaucrats are now queuing up for a Central deputation while those already on Central deputation are reluctant to return to the state.

BJP campaign committee chief Narendra Modi’s remarks, pitting himself against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, drew a caustic response from Union minister of state for parliamentary affairs Rajiv Shukla, who said the Gujarat leader was “full of arrogance”.

Though the Rajasthan BJP asked all its the district presidents not to contest Assembly elections and to help the party nominees win, more than half the 39 district unit heads have not paid any heed.