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HMSI launches new CBF 125 cc motorcycle in Indian Market

In order to woo its Indian customers, Honda Motorcycles & Scooter India HMSI launches new CBF 125 cc motorcycle in Indian Market

Amar Singh meets Pranab Mukherjee on Indo-US nuclear deal

New Delhi, July 1 : Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Monday night held talks with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on the Indo-US nuclear deal.

J-K cabinet to discuss Amarnath shrine board land issue today

AmarnathSrinagar, July 1: The Jammu and Kashmir cabinet will meet here today to discuss on the order to hand over 39.88 hectares of land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB).

According to sources, the meeting will be held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.

The meeting will be held without People's Democratic Party (PDP) Ministers, who resigned to protest over the proposed land transfer to the shrine board.

The cabinet will also decide on the allocation of portfolios vacated by PDP Ministers.

Zoo 'adopts' a baby monkey abandoned by mother

Lucknow, June 30 : Lucknow zoo is looking after a recently born monkey abandoned by its mother. Even the group abandoned the child monkey.

It’s been six weeks that the baby is being rendered motherly care by zoo authorities at a hospital. The authorities are taking care of its diet and growth, and they hope to reunite it with its caged group once it is able to be on its own.

J-K CM ready for floor test in state assembly at any time

Srinagar, June 30 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said that he is ready to prove the majority of his government at anytime in the State Assembly.

Yesterday, he informed Governor N N Vohra about the majority he enjoyed on the floor of the house, despite the 18-member People’s Democratic Party (PDP) withdrawing its support to the Congress- led Government on Saturday over the transfer of forestland to the Amarnath Shrine Board.

The Congress has 21 members in the 87-seat assembly and is backed by two CPM MLAs and eight Independents.

The term of the State Government expires on November two.

Azad is hopeful that his government will last its full term.

3,531 pilgrims leave for Amarnath shrine

Jammu, June 30: A fresh batch of 3,531 pilgrims left for the Amarnath cave shrine here today, a day after it was suspended due to bad weather.

According to official sources, the devotees, including 619 women, 70 children, left from the base camp at Bhagwati Nagar at around 5:30 a. m.

The pilgrimage was suspended on Sunday following torrential rains on the shrine route.

With today's batch, as many as 27,062 pilgrims have left Jammu for the shrine.

So far, 30,593 pilgrims, have left the Jammu base camp for the shrine. The pilgrimage ends on August 16.

Security forces have been on a high alert along the entire pilgrimage route to ensure the safety of the pilgrims.

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