Colombo, Aug 2 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today urged all eight SAARC nations to stand united against terrorism.

Terming the recent attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul and serial blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad as gruesome reminders of barbaric acts of terrorists, Dr. Singh told the opening session of the 15th SAARC Summit that terrorism is the ''single major threat'' to the stability of South Asia.

The region cannot afford to lose the battle against the ideologies of hatred and fanatism, he added.

Srinagar, Kashmir - Army troops marched through the streets in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir state on Saturday after violent protests over land for a Hindu pilgrimage site claimed two lives and wounded 21 people, officials said.

The army was deployed in the southern Jammu district after Hindu protestors attacked government offices and torched a police station on Friday. Two protestors were killed in police shooting and 8 injured as the protests spread to Samba town, police said.

Jammu, a Hindu majority region in the mostly Muslim state has been on the boil since the state government cancelled its earlier order allotting 40 hectares of forest land to a trust that organizes the annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave.

Islamabad, Aug 2 : After the World bank appointed neutral expert Raymond Lafitte asked India to decrease the height of the dam by 1.5 metres, Pakistan has said that it has no objections against the work going on at the dam site in Jammu and Kashmir.

Colombo, Aug 2 : India will work with members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) for a clean and unconditional exemption to facilitate full nuclear commerce with the rest of the world, said India''s Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon on the sidelines of the ongoing SAARC Summit.

New Delhi - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh welcomed the International Atomic Energy Agency's approval of an inspection protocol with the country, terming it as a "milestone" in India's quest towards gaining access to international nuclear trade, officials said Saturday.

The IAEA Board of Governors on Friday approved the India-specific Safeguards Agreement with the consensus of all 35 board members.

“It is better to move out of a relation than stay in a bad one.”

Rahul Mahajan, son of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, will formally part ways with his partner Shweta on Saturday.

The Gurgaon Sessions Court gave its approval on Friday to the divorce appeal filed by Rahul and Shweta.

District and sessions judge Ramendra Jain asked the pair whether they ever thought of any settlement during the last six months after they granted them divorce after both parties mutually agreed on the move as per section 13(B) of Hindu Marriage Act.