Is the US now open to a nuclear deal with Pakistan similar to the Indo-US deal? Reports suggest a change of heart on the part of Washington, which had so far kept rebuffing Pakistan's request for a nuclear deal. Anne W Patterson, US Ambassador to Pakistan, has said in an interview to a US-based Pakistani journal: "We are beginning to have a discussion with the Pakistan Government" on the country's desire to tap nuclear energy.

Under the threat of a possible militant strike, jawans are working round-the-clock tracking every inch of this mountain that flanks the 14-kilometre route from Katra town to the Vaishno Devi caves.

Bollywood actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Monday claimed he had not been invited by the Bihar government for the state's first-ever Bihar Day celebrations and would not be attending the official event. Sinha, a Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Patna Sahib, voicing his hurt at not being invited, said: "I will not attend Bihar Divas (Day) celebrations as I am not invited."

The new state BJP chief in Gujarat, RC Faldu, was weighed in blood, 75 litres of it for his 75 kg of body weight. All that blood has been kept in Vadodara for donation “to the needy”.

A special 26/11 court rejected the plea of one of the arrested accused Sabauddin Ahmed seeking to examine US terror accused David Headley as court witness via video-conference on Monday.

Attacking UP Chief Minister Mayawati on the "cash garland" controversy, the Samajwadi Party on Monday questioned the "reluctance" of the Congress-led government at the Centre to get the matter investigated and bring the BSP supremo to book.

Over six years after the murder of NHAI whistleblower Satyendra Kumar Dubey, who exposed corruption in the golden quadrilateral project in Bihar, a court on Monday convicted three accused in the case. The special CBI court in Patna has convicted Mantu Kumar, Udai Kumar and Pinku Ravidas in the murder case of Dubey, a young engineer working in the Golden Quadrilateral Project of National Highway Authority of India, CBI spokesperson said in a statement, adding the quantum of sentence will be pronounced on March 27.

India is in the process of setting up a team to question David Coleman Headley, the US citizen who has pleaded guilty to helping the Lashkar-e-Toiba plot and execute 26/11.

There has been an upsurge in hiring of non-resident Indians and expats by companies in the country in the past two years, thanks to improved infrastructure and competitive compensation levels, experts say. "In last two years, most of the companies are hiring non-resident Indians (NRIs) and expats because there is an increase in demand for such skilled professionals," executive search firm GlobalHunt India Director Sunil Goel said.

In a setback to softdrink major Coca Cola, an experts panel set up by Kerala Government today suggested legal steps to realise Rs 216.26 crore as compensation from it for the "multi-sectoral" loss caused by its plant at Plachimada in Palakkad district.

Mayawati's garland episode seems to have taught a few lessons to her fellow Haryana counterpart. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh refused to sit on a silver chair offered to him by party workers at a rally in Samalkha on Sunday.

A two-day bandh called by Maoists across 6 states begins today in protest of the Union Budget calling it anti-poor.

The police have a constituted a high level committee headed by DCP Jolly Cherian to investigate the crude bomb, which was found on Sunday from the cargo section of Kingfisher flight from Bangalore to Thiruvananthapuram.

A group of villagers from Orissa have united to save their forests from the timber mafia, despite divisions on caste lines. In Jiginipatna village, no one ignores the call of the Forest Protection Committee (FPC). The current priority is to find a way to deal with petty timber smugglers who invade their forest - they have decided to avoid direct confrontation.

In Gujarat's Golden Corridor millions of litres of untreated effluents get pumped into the Arabian sea are officials turning a blind eye?

The votes are in: yesterday evening, after a last-minute compromise over abortion payments, the US House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill effecting major changes in American medical finance. From the BBC's coverage: "The president is expected to sign the House-passed Senate bill as early as Tuesday, after which it will be officially enacted into law. However, it will contain some very unpopular measures that Democratic senators have agreed to amend. The Senate will be able to make the required changes in a separate bill using a procedure known as reconciliation, which allows budget provisions to be approved with 51 votes - rather than the 60 needed to overcome blocking tactics." No Republican voted in favor of the bill; 34 Democrats voted against. As law, the system set forth would extend insurance coverage to an estimated 32 million Americans, impose new taxes on high-income earners as well as provide some tax breaks and subsides for others, and considerably toughen the regulatory regime under which insurance companies operate. The anticipated insurance regime phases in (starting with children, and expanding to adults in 2014) a requirement that insurance providers accept those with preexisting conditions, and creates a system of fines, expected to be administered by the IRS, for those who fail or refuse to obtain health insurance.

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Middlesex have decided against bringing Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh on board for their Twenty20 Cup campaign, despite having a signed contract from him, after failing to receive written approval from the BCCI

The plays of the day from the latest action at Dhaka as Bangladesh are frustrated when they don't get the rub of the umpiring green

Surrey have confirmed their standing as one of the wealthiest counties by announcing a record profit of £752,000 for 2009

Ian Bell's classy 138 wrestled England a narrow advantage in the second Test after Bangladesh's hopes were deflated by poor umpiring decisions and gritty batting