New Delhi, May 1: The irregularities alleged to have been committed by suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi will be on top of the agenda when the BCCI working committee meets in Mumb-ai on Sunday.

New Delhi, May 1: The JMM now wants a “graceful exit” for its “Guruji”, Mr Shibu Soren, as Jharkhand chief minister, leaving the BJP in a quandary. The request for an honourable exit came during a nearly four-hour meeting here on Saturday between the BJP top brass, led by party president Nitin Gadkari, and JMM leaders led by Mr Soren’s son, Mr Hemant Soren.

Washington, May 1: In an effort to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the US is likely to reveal the size of its atomic stockpile — a closely guarded secret — during the key NPT review conference at the UN headquarters in New York next week, a media report said on Saturday.

Jammu, May 1: Another ceasefire violation, the sixth this year, was reported in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir late Saturday evening while in Samba district an infiltration bid was foiled by BSF troops on Saturday morning.

A relative consoles the mother of Shafiq Ahmad Sheikh, who was killed when pro-separatist stone-pelters attacked a minibus to protest the house arrest of separatist leaders in Srinagar on Friday. Shafiq, a state government employee, died after being hit on the head by a stone thrown by a group

French President Nicolas Sarkozy (right) and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy at the World Expo site in Shanghai on Friday. PHOTO: AP

Lucknow, April 30: The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on Friday arrested six persons, including two CRPF jawans, on charges of stealing arms and ammunition from the armoury and supplying them to Naxals. The arrests were made from Rampur, Jhansi and Moradabad.

New Delhi, April 30: Maoist rebels reportedly opened fire at Errabore police station in Dantewada late on Friday evening. Police sources said the firing continued for nearly five to 10 minutes. No casualties have been reported so far.

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Ranchi,  April 30: JMM stalwart Shibu Soren has been kept confined to a few rooms inside his Morabadi residence in Ranchi and is not even being allowed to meet or speak to those he wants, including some of his oldest colleagues in the three-decade-long Jharkhand statehood movement.

New Delhi, April 30: Former Union minister and Hazaribagh MP Yashwant Sinha and former Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda are being considered as replacements for Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren. Following the BJP’s threat to withdraw support to the JMM-led coalition, the outfit has offered the BJP the CM’s post.