New Delhi, July 21 : The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) today claimed that the government has the support of more than 291 MPs to win tomorrow''s trust vote in te Lok Sabha. 

Saying that the government will win the trust vote, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said, "Our number is continuously growing. It has now exceeded the 291 mark. There is going to be a great victory for us." 

"Our trust vote is the trust of the country. The people are in favour of nuclear power," he told media persons outside Parliament.

Defending the Indo-US nuclear deal, he said that in today''s world people were getting land registered on the moon, and India, which was isolated earlier, can now get the recognition it needed. 

Dhaka - A young Bangladeshi man was gunned down by suspected Indian security forces near the India-Bangladesh border amid mounting tension along the common frontier of the two neighbours, local police said Monday. 

Omar Shareef, chief of Benapole police station in north-western Bangladesh, claimed the body also bore marks of multiple wounds. 

With the latest casualty, the number of people killed since Friday in border violence rose to seven. 

Bangladeshi officials said the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has taken up an aggressive posture since the paramilitary outfit was ordered to shoot at sight any person near the frontier after sunset. 

New Delhi, July 21, The Kashmiri American Council or Kashmir Center (KAC) and the Association of Humanitarian Lawyers will hold the Ninth International Kashmir Peace Conference on August 1 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

According to a KAC press release, a number of delegates from India, Pakistan and other parts of the world, including Justice Rajinder Sachar, Former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court, Kuldip Nayyar, a veteran journalist Pandit Jatinder Bakhshi, Ola Lanka, Vice President, Norwegian Parliament, Farzana Raja, Sherry Rehman, Major General (retired) Jamshaid Ayaz Khan all from Islamabad and also ambassadors of few countries will take part in the two-day conference.

New Delhi, July 21:

Wellington - A group of Indians who disappeared in New Zealand while reportedly on their way to Australia to see the Pope began going home on Sunday, news reports said. 

About 40 young Indian men who joined a Catholic pilgrimage to the World Youth Day festival in Sydney that was scheduled for a week-long transit stop in Auckland, paid immigration fraudsters in Delhi half a million rupees believing that they were buying permanent residence in New Zealand. 

The men, mainly from the Punjab region, abandoned their Catholic family hosts as soon as they realized they had been taken for a ride and went to ground after failing to check in for their scheduled flights to Sydney on Tuesday. 

New Delhi, July 20 : Nine attempts have been made by the government of the day to secure a vote of confidence since 1979.

Of these nine attempts, six have been unsuccessful and three successful, which speaks volumes about the import of coalition politics in the Indian context in the last three decades.

In 1979, Chaudhary Charan Singh was the first Prime Minister of the country to be asked to prove his majority after the Congress withdrew its support to his government. He, however, opted to resign rather than face Parliament.