Mumbai, July 10 : The Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Dr. Anil Kakodkar has urged the country to give the go ahead for the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.

Ormanjhi, July 10 On Wednesday fear hit the minds of people when a bus rammed into a scrap-laden truck at Ormanjhi, 18 km from Ranchi taking life of at least 20 people and leaving 8 others injured.

“The accident occurred when the driver of the bus tried to avoid hitting a motorcyclist near Pallu village,” Deputy Inspector General of police R K Mullick said.

“So far 14 bodies, including that of the driver, have been extricated from the bus and the rest were being brought out,” he said.

There were around 30 passengers for Ramgarh inside the bus.

The bus was carrying around 30 passengers from here to Ramgarh.

MapmyIndia has made announcement about the addition of detailed maps

New Delhi - Communist allies of India's United Progressive Alliance Wednesday formally withdrew their support to the ruling coalition over a civilian nuclear deal with the US and demanded a trust vote in the Indian parliament.

Leaders of the four left parties that have provided the Congress-party led UPA with its parliamentary majority since May 2004 met President Pratibha Patil to hand over letters of withdrawal of support.

"We have met the president and all four of our left parties have submitted letters withdrawing support from the UPA government," Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), told reporters in the forecourt of the Presidential Palace after meeting Patil.

New Delhi - Communist allies of India's United Progressive Alliance Wednesday formally withdrew their support to the ruling coalition over a civilian nuclear deal with the US and demanded a trust vote in the Indian parliament.

Leaders of the four left parties that have provided the Congress-party led UPA with its parliamentary majority since May 2004 met President Pratibha Patil to hand over letters of withdrawal of support.

"We have met the president and all four of our left parties have submitted letters withdrawing support from the UPA government," Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), told reporters in the forecourt of the Presidential Palace after meeting Patil.

Singapore - Singapore is launching a mercantile exchange to facilitate the trading of commodity derivatives in the Asia time zone, a financial market conference was told on Wednesday.

The Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX) will offer trading in metals, base metals, energy, agricultural goods, currency pairs, carbon credits and commodity indices, said Ministry of Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang.

It will be the first in Asia to offer such a diversified range of products on a single platform, analysts said.

SMX is backed by India-based Financial Technologies.

Lim said the involvement of Financial Technologies, which operates seven exchanges, "underscores Singapore's position as a key commodities trading hub."