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Mumbai, Nov 23 (ANI): Mumbai Police Commissioner D Sivanandan on Monday categorically rejected reports of a war within the state police cadres.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): Defence Minister AK Antony has said that Pakistan and Afghanistan have emerged as the epicentre of terrorism across the world.

Indian security forces seized a large cache of explosives in tribal Bastar region of Maoist-infested Chhattisgarh state on Sunday.

In yet another incident, Maoist rebels blew up a vehicle of paramilitary force by detonating a landmine, killing two paratroopers and injuring nine in Jharkhand on Sunday.

Security has been stepped up in West Bengal, a day after bomb explosions rocked the troubled Assam state.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor hasaid that Central Government does not view China or China's development as a threat of any kind.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): Women self-help groups from remote areas of Jharkhand displayed products with traditional Kantha Art at the ongoing India International Trade Fair (IITF) here.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): Former Liberhan Commission counsel Anupam Gupta said here on Monday that dragging the name of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in connection with the Babri Masjid demolition was an attempt to shift the focus from the role played by L.K Advani.

Ranchi, Nov 23 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh has described the leakage of the Liberhan Commission Report as an attempt to polarise voters during the forthcoming Jharkhand assembly polls.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): Both houses of Parliament were adjourned till 2 p.m. on Monday following an opposition uproar over the leakage of the Justice Liberhan Commission's report to the media.

Mohan Bhagwat, chief of Hindu radical group 'Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh' (RSS) said on Sunday that India should strengthen its frontier with China.

Reacting to the shocking revelation in the reports by Justice M.S. Liberhan, the one man Commission probing the 1992 demolition of Babri mosque at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh that has indicted several BJP leaders for the demolition, BJP's senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi claimed it as a political move.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram assured parliament on Monday that the government would table the Justice Liberhan Commission Report on Babri Masjid Demolition in this session.

Ranchi, Nov 23 (ANI): Campaigning for the first phase of the five-phased polling for the Jharkhand Assembly would come to an end this evening.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI) : A section of the media on Monday reported that the Justice Liberhan Commission has named former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajapayee along with Leader of Opposition L.K.Advani and senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi as being responsible for spearheading the Karseva movement to demolish the the Babri Masjid in December 1992.

Bastar (Chhattisgarh), Nov 23 (ANI): Security forces have seized a large cache of explosives in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.

Bangalore, Nov 23 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that India was unable to make its borders safe even after 60 years of Independence due to constant meddling of its neighbours-Pakistan, China and Bangladesh.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has urged Indian youths to adopt Gandhian principles of non-violence and truth.

Bhubaneshwar, Nov 23 (ANI): The much-awaited test flight of the Agni-II surface-to-surface Intermediate Range Ballastic Missile will take place on Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast tonight.