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New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary Amar Singh, who got into a scuffle with Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) S.S. Ahluwalia in the Rajya Sabha, Tuesday said he was ready to apologise and 'didn't want to manhandle him' but was provoked by attempts to divide the house along communal lines.

It was late in the night when Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani walked into the residence of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh on December 6, 1992.

New Delhi, Nov.24 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday once again raised slogans and disrupted proceedings in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) over the non-tabling of the Liberhan Commission's report on the December6, 1992 demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodya and also the UPA's Action Taken Report (ATR).

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh holds talks with U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday during the first state visit of the new administration -- a tribute, both sides say, to the close natural ties between the two giant democracies.

President Barack Obama hosts Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday for talks considered critical to showing Washington's commitment to New Delhi in a region where its rivals, China and Pakistan, are U.S. priorities.

Dhanbad, Nov 24 (ANI): Bollywood actress Mahima Chaudhary was on Monday caught up in a scuffle between Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists in Jharkhand 's Dhanbad district.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday completing a 2005 U.S.-India nuclear cooperation deal would boost investment opportunities in his country, a hopeful sign for U.S. companies eyeing India's potential $150 billion market in power plants.

The district police is set to attach two more properties of former parliamentarian Atiq Ahmad who is currently lodged in Lalitpur jail in connection with the murder of BSP legislator Raju Pal.

Tapan Mahato (34), a local CPM committee member in Jhargram, was killed on Monday by suspected CPI (Maoist) cadres.

With discordant voices within the Hurriyat Conference threatening to erode credibility of the separatists' behind-the -scenes engagement with New Delhi, chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Monday asked Hurriyat members not to issue "any statement to the media independently" and abolished several posts.

With few days remaining for the election to the post of Pune mayor, the Congress, which sat in the opposition benches in the Pune Municipal Corporation for two-and-half years, is seeking an equal share of power in the civic body for supporting the NCP candidate for the post.

Even as the Left Front, at a meeting held a week ago, decided to fight the Opposition together, its junior ally Forward Bloc continued with its tirade, blaming the CPM for the series of recent electoral reverses for the ruling Left in the state.

Close to a year after 26/11, Home Minister R R Patil on Monday said that the state government, learning from its past mistakes, has implemented several measures to increase the state police's capacity to counter any similar incidents.

THE UPA government looked set to give in to the Opposition's demand to immediately table the Liberhan Commission report in Parliament.

The state government has finally decided to withdraw the joint security forces stationed at 15-odd various schools in and around Lalgarh by November 30. "I have spoken to the West Midnapore DM who said the forces are likely to be removed from the schools by November 30,' said Bikram Sen, principal secretary of the school education department.

The Shiv Sena has threatened to "celebrate" the 350th death anniversary of Afzal Khan on Tuesday by displaying giant posters of Chhatrapati Shivaji killing the Adilshahi general.

Facing an existential crisis over a host of reasons, from transition to a younger generation to the primacy of ideology in the party, the BJP on Monday found a godsend in the findings of the Liberhan Commission Report.

In what could be an embarrassment for the Congress, former Union Textiles Minister Shankersinh Vaghela has been named by the Justice (retd) Liberhan Commission among the 60 people found to have a culpable role in fomenting communal trouble in the aftermath of Babri Masjid demolition in 1992.

Your editorial 'State of Jharkhand' (IE, November 21) has rightly argued that stability and accountability in politics should go hand in hand in Jharkhand.

The state Forest department has bagged the Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra Award for 2006, 2007 and 2008 for outstanding performance in social forestry and reclamation of wastelands in Gujarat.