UPA-Left meeting postponed
Uncertainty over N-deal deepens
New Delhi, June 18
The last-minute postponement of today’s crucial meeting of the UPA-Left committee on the Indo-US nuclear agreement has further prolonged the uncertainty over the fate of the deal and the government, as the two sides have stuck to their respective positions.

US to work on it till Jan 20, Bush’s last day in office

5% quota for Gujjars
Jaipur, June 18
The Gujjar community will be given 5 per cent reservation as a special category under an agreement reached with the Rajasthan government, bringing an end to nearly month-long agitation by the community for Scheduled Tribe status.

Editorial: Gujjar agitation ends

A family moves to a safer place on a raft made from banana tree shoots in the flood affected Bantow village in Lakhimpur district, about 400 km east of Guwahati, on Wednesday. — Reuters photo

Thackeray wants Hindu suicide squads to take on jihadis
Mumbai, June 18
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has landed in yet another controversy by calling for Hindu suicide squads to take on Islamic extremists.

Probe into building that Darbari built Chandigarh, June 18 The Punjab government has ordered a Vigilance probe against former Congress legislator and deputy speaker Prof Darbari lal for allegedly constructing a four-storey building on a busy traffic junction in Amritsar in violation of a sanctioned scheme as well as a High Court order in this regard. A view of the building being constructed by Darbari Lal, a former deputy speaker of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, near the district courts, Amritsar. — Photo by Vishal Kumar