New Delhi, July 24 : An 800-year-old footprint has been unearthed at one of Canada’s top archaeological sites in the western Manitoba Province.

Jammu, July 24: Authorities in Jammu today imposed night curfew at the border belt of Jammu District as they said there was an apprehension of weapons being smuggled to subversives.

New Delhi, July 24 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh met Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee at his residence early this morning.

The meeting held a day after the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) expelled him from the party for refusing to follow the party''s advice regarding resignation from the Speaker''s post.

The discussion between the two is still unknown.

Jayanti Natarajan, a Congress spokesperson said that Chatterjee''s expulsion would have no bearing on his continuation as Speaker.

Srinagar, July 24 : Scores of women activists took to the streets here to protest against alleged human rights violations in the Kashmir Valley.

Activists of the Muslim Khawateen-e- Markaz, the women''s wing of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, staged the demonstration in the Raj Bagh area. They were protesting against disappearances and the illegal detention of innocent Kashmiris by armed forces over the past 19 years.

Wearing green colored headbands and brandishing flags, the women chanted slogans against the State Government for failing to take concrete steps to check human rights violations in the valley.

Jammu, July 24: The Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti (SASS) will observe a shutdown in Jammu today against the revocation of the State Government’s order to transfer 40 hectares of forest land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board.

The shutdown follows the death of Kuldeep Kumar Dogra, an activist of the trust in a hospital in Jammu last afternoon. He fell unconscious during a chain hunger strike.

New Delhi - A day after it won parliament's endorsement for a controversial nuclear agreement with the United States, India's United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on Wednesday readied to woo international opinion in favour of the pact.

The deal would allow the US to export nuclear materials and technology to India ending a three-decade ban while India would open its civilian reactors to international inspection.