On board a special aircraft, Aug 23: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said that India will not accept any "prescriptive conditionalities" to get an exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to operationalise the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.

Mukherjee said so to reporters while accompanying President Pratibha Patil on her two-day visit to West Bengal on board a special aircraft.

New Delhi: People of Jammu and Srinagar have displayed an enormous capacity to be active, demonstrating and venting their anger against each other during the last two months.

The basic issue that sparked off the demonstrations was the transfer of 100 acres of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, mainly in Baltal, to set up pre-fabricated structures for the use of pilgrims. But the controversy has now grown beyond the issue of the transfer of land.

Lahore, Aug 23: Pakistan’s Indus Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah has alleged that India was filling the Baglihar Dam in clear violation of the Indus Basin Water Treaty, bringing the inflow in Chenab River down to a historic low of 20,000 cusecs.

This has forced Pakistan to launch a protest with India’s Indus Commissioner, he added.

“Although the Indians can fill the dam between June 21 and Aug 31, they can only do so by releasing at least 55,000 cusecs downstream. We made a call to the Indian Indus Basin Water Treaty Commissioner who promised to get back after checking the facts from irrigation authorities in occupied Kashmir,” the Dawn quoted Ali Shah as saying.

Srinagar, Aug 23: A four-member committee set up by Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra will be holding its first round of talks with the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti (SAYSS) here today to discuss the five-point agenda submitted by the government to the Samiti.

The four-member committee side is headed by Tilak Raj Sharma while the government side is headed by the former Chief Secretary, S. S. Bloeria. He is now Adviser to the Governor.

New Delhi - Four Indian soldiers, including a colonel, were killed in a gunbattle with suspected Islamic militants in the Kupwara district of northern Jammu and Kashmir state on Friday, news reports said.

Four militants were also killed in the encounter in the dense forests of the Macchal sector near the line of control, a de facto border that separates India and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, PTI news agency reported.