New Delhi - A delegation of all major Indian political parties on Saturday failed to reach an understanding with agitators spearheading protests over land for a Hindu shrine in Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir state, leading to fears of further violence.
More than 18 people have died and scores been injured in protests for and against a proposal to give state-owned forest land to a body that runs the annual pilgrimage to the Hindu cave shrine of Amarnath in the high Himalayas.
New Delhi - Indian authorities have issued a birth certificate to a Japanese baby born to an Indian surrogate mother, easing the way for her Japanese father to take her home, news reports said Saturday.
The certificate was issued by the municipal authorities in Anand town of western Gujarat state, where 16-day-old Manji was born, in the name of her father biological Ikufumi Yamada, IANS news agency reported.
Manji, who was shifted to a hospital in another Indian town, Jaipur, days after she was born, is at the centre of a legal wrangle as India does not have any surrogacy laws.
New Delhi - Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who was forced to leave India earlier this year, has returned to renew her visa which is due to expire on Tuesday.
Nasreen, author of controversial book Lajja (Shame), had to leave India in March after violent protests by sections of people in the eastern city of Kolkata, which she has made her home in exile for many years.
New Delhi, August 9 : Huang Qijun, the 45-year-old maker of the Xiangyun (lucky clouds) torch, actually heaved a sigh of relief when it lit the Olympic cauldron on Friday night.
He was the one who produced the safety lantern and community cauldrons used in every relay, and accompanied the torch from Greece to Beijing.
"I instantly felt relaxed. I was exhausted, but also excited. My job is done," the China Daily quoted him as saying during an interview, after the cauldron was ignited.
Throughout the torch’s journey from Greece to Beijing, Huang kept the lowest profile.
New Delhi, August 9 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday blamed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-led Congress government for the ongoing row over the controversial revocation of the forestland allotted to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB).
Addressing a party rally in New Delhi on Saturday, senior leader L. K. Advani alleged that the decision of the Jammu and Kashmir government to rescind the allotment of forestland to SASB was not its own but it was taken on the directions of the Central government.
New Delhi, Aug 9: An all-party delegation led by Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will visit Jammu and Srinagar today to end the Amarnath land transfer row.
The visit is being undertaken after deliberations in the all-party meeting chaired by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
The all-party meeting had issued a joint appeal for the restoration of peace and normalcy in the State and to create an environment for the suspension of the agitation.
New Delhi - Indian authorities have issued a birth certificate to a Japanese baby born to an Indian surrogate mother, easing the way for her Japanese father to take her home, news reports said Saturday.
New Delhi - Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who was forced to leave India earlier this year, has returned to renew her visa which is due to expire on Tuesday.
New Delhi, August 9 : Huang Qijun, the 45-year-old maker of the Xiangyun (lucky clouds) torch, actually heaved a sigh of relief when it lit the Olympic cauldron on Friday night.
New Delhi, August 9 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday blamed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-led Congress government for the ongoing row over the controversial revocation of the forestland allotted to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB).
New Delhi, Aug 9: An all-party delegation led by Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will visit Jammu and Srinagar today to end the Amarnath land transfer row. 
