Ramban (J-K), July 23 : At least 12 passengers were killed and 26 others were injured when a bus fell into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir''s Ramban District early this morning.

New Delhi, July 23 : In yesterday''s trust vote won by the UPA Government by a margin of 19 votes, as many as 21 Members of Parliament (MPs) belonging to different political parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress cross-voted. Ten members remained absent or abstained from voting.

In the division of votes, the UPA Government got 275 votes in its favour, while 256 voted against it.

New Delhi, July 22 : Union Health Minister Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss today reiterated that India should not only be smoke free, but it should be comprehensively tobacco free.

Addressing a gathering of students at Delhi University, Dr. Ramadoss praised the Delhi University Student Union initiative of smoke free campus and promised that a very soon a smoking cessation centre will be operationalised in the campus.

New Delhi, July 22 : A four-member delegation from Mozambique, led by their Interior Minister, Jose Pacheco met the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil here last evening.

Ways to strengthen bilateral co-operation between the two countries were discussed during the meeting.

Both India and Mozambique have long coastlines and can learn from each other in the area of coastal security.

Patil stressed the need for all countries to join hands in the fight against terrorism. He said that nations could share information and exchange ideas for this purpose.

New Delhi, July 22 : All India Congress Committee General Secretary Rahul Gandhi said here today that energy security is very important if the country wants to eradicate poverty and the much publicised Indo-US civil nuclear deal is aimed at addressing to this problem.

In order to silence agitating opposition members in the Lok Shabha, Gandhi said, "I''m sure all members present in this room want poverty to be eradicated from the country. Energy security is a must to achieve that goal."

Transcend has launched a compact Flash Card (CF) 300X in India. It will make photography somewhat easier. The flash card has a very good speed of read/write up to 45MB per second.

The card operates on dual-channel Ultra DMA with highest speed of any CF. It provides continuous photography and non stop video recording. The use of digital single lens reflex camera (DSLR) helps in high performance.