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The country’s top investigating agency has made itself a laughing stock once again by admitting that it has limited information about Kashmir’s most wanted fugitive, Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin alias Mohammad Yusuf Shah.

Acknowledging great revival story, UNESCO has removed the 'danger tag' imposed on the famous Manas National Park of Assam 19 years ago following significant improvement in wildlife conservation.

India made its first high-level contact with democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi when Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao called on her at her residence here. On the very first day of a three-day trip to Myanmar that ended on Wednesday, Rao called on the Nobel laureate and leader of the now disbanded National League for Democracy (NLD), officials said.

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday did not pass any interim order on the Tata Motors' petition challenging the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 by which the West Bengal government has taken back possession of the land leased to the company at Singur.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday termed as a "big joke" the Intelligence Bureau's "chewing gum theory" regarding the alleged bugging of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's office and demanded a thorough probe into the matter.

Gopinath Munde episode has brought to surface the underlying growing acrimony between top party leaders in the BJP. Despite various efforts by top leaders to hide the fissure, the party interest finds itself lurking and personal ego clashes taking over.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram was on Wednesday forced to change his helicopter while he was on his way to Gurez from Pahalgam in Kashmir Valley following a problem in one of the two engines of the BSF chopper, 20 minutes after takeoff.

Yet another effort to reach a consensus on the Women's Reservation Bill failed to make any progress with two major political parties staying away from an all-party meeting here on Wednesday and others opposed to the measure sticking to their guns.

The disclosure of spying on Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his team in the North Block has created uproar in political circles. Just before the expansion of the Cabinet, the Congress is finding it difficult to prove its point on the spying act.

About 600 hundred Navodaya Vidyalayas in the country, which are facing problems in complying with the Right to Education (RTE) Act, can take a sigh of relief now as the Union Law Ministry has decided to keep them out of the ambit of RTE.