Bangalore, Nov 12: The Fourth Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation Task Force (REDGTF) meeting of Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development on Climate (APPCDC) will begin here today.

Srinagar, Nov 11 : The encounter between security forces and militants at a hotel in Sopore town of Baramulla District ended this morning with the killing of two rebels and a security personnel.

The three-day long gun battle came to an end when the security personnel gunned down two Pakistani militants holed up in the hotel 'New Light'.

Besides the two suicide bombers of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a CRPF soldier was killed and five other security men-- three CRPF and two local police personnel-- injured in the encounter, which started on Thursday, said a police spokesman.

Security forces foiled an attempt made by the ultras to storm their camp in the town, 55 kms from here, he added.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has pocketed two oil blocks in Iraq’s Kurdish region.
RIL has signed up a deal for the blocks ‘Rovi’ and ‘Sarta’ in northern Iraq with the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG).
The blocks measuring 450-500 sq km have an oil-bearing structure of around 80%, and Reliance is confident of making a discovery soon. RIL paid a signing amount of $15.5-17.5 million for the two blocks.
According to the deal, the RIL’s wholly owned arm Reliance Exploration and Production DMCC would be served as an operator.

New Delhi, Nov 11 : The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo meeting began here today, and in all likelihood, it will discuss the much-touted Indo-US civil nuclear deal and the prevai