Students look at old currency notes displayed at the Currency Exhibition organised at RBI Hyderabad as part of the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday.  PHOTO: K.V.S. Giri

New Delhi/Islamabad, Feb. 23: Thursday’s talks between India and Pakistan are expected to be more in the nature of foreign office consultations, with no inter-ministerial representatives in attendance. It would be similar to the September

New Delhi, Feb. 23: The Centre on Tuesday said it will not accept any pre-conditions for talks with the CPI (Maoist) rebels and urged them to abjure violence and come to the negotiating table.

New Delhi, Feb. 23: Parliament was adjourned over the price rise issue after the government did not concede the Opposition’s demand for a discussion under rules that allow voting.

Srinagar, Feb. 23: An Army captain, two soldiers and a suspected militant were killed and three soldiers and a civilian wounded in a fierce gunfight that broke out in the Kashmiri town of Sopore, 48 km northwest of here, on Tuesday.

New Delhi, Feb. 23: Ten months have passed since the General Election but nearly half-a-dozen former MPs and ministers continue to unauthorisedly occupy government bungalows in Lutyens Delhi. This information has been revealed by

New Delhi, Feb. 23: The Central Vigilance Commission is reportedly checking all construction works related to the Commonwealth Games 2010, to be held in the national capital in October this year, following complaints of large-scale corruption in the procurement process.

Taranjeet Singh, a Pakistani Sikh visiting India, leaves the country via Attari near Amritsar on Monday on receiving the news of the killing of his uncle and brother by the Taliban in Pakistan.  PHOTO: PTI

Prince William, wearing a blindfold to simulate loss of eyesight, draws a bow during an archery lesson at St Dunstan’s, a specialist centre for blind ex-servicemen and women, in Llandudno, north Wales, Monday.  PHOTO: AP

New Delhi, Feb. 22: The government and the Opposition appear to be moving towards a confrontation on the issue of rising prices of essential commodities. While the government on Monday night rejected the Opposition’s demand for a discussion on this issue