CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): President Nicolas Maduro announced on Monday the expulsion of the top U.S. diplomat in Venezuela and two other embassy employees for allegedly conspiring with the political opposition to sabotage the economy and power grid.

ROME: About 20 Italian centre-right lawmakers may break with leader Silvio Berlusconi if he tries to bring down Prime Minister Enrico Letta's coalition in a dispute over Berlusconi's fraud conviction , a centre-right party source warned on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde has written to all states and Union territories to "ensure that no innocent Muslim youth is wrongfully detained in the name of terror", sparking off outrage in the BJP over his "anti-secular and divisive" move.

NEW DELHI: Even as the Supreme Court's direction to the Election Commission (EC) to include a "none of the above" (NOTA) button on electronic voting machines (EVMs) is being welcomed as a triumph for democracy, apprehensions are being raised by some quarters about the likely misuse of this provision in areas affected by insurgency or extremism. There is a fear that secessionists in Jammu & Kashmir, which has seen candidates winning with as low as 8% voteshare, may force people to increasingly select the NOTA option to discredit the democratic exercise in the border state.

INDORE: Seven operatives of the banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) escaped from the Khandwa district jail on Tuesday morning after stabbing two constables.
 

NEW DELHI: It was more or less certain that Yuvraj Singh would make a comeback into the Indian team when the selectors picked the squad for the upcoming ODI series against the Australians on Monday, such has been his recent performances on the domestic front.

BEIJING: The stony-faced man at the immigration desk at the Beijing International Airport broke into a smile as he scanned the pages of the blue-coloured passport. "India, China... same..." he said in halting English, before quickly adding, "so many people." He couldn't have put it better.

NAGPUR: "I hope Umesh doesn't consider this snub a message to compromise pace for accuracy...hope the people who matter have a word with him," tweeted former India opener Aakash Chopra after the selectors announced the squad for the lone T20 and first three one-day internationals against Australia.

Kota . Baran Road, the thief entered Semtel factory Sunday midnight . Gardo security patrol tried to go on his behalf , but the thieves attacked them , wounding two guards . After reporting the incident , including Borkedha night patrolling police reached the spot and surrounding the seizure of the vehicle , but without success . Semtel security personnel in the agency said five guards are present in the factory at night .

Kota / Udaipur . Udaipur - Chittorgarh route Menar - Nwania Monday morning in a road accident between two bearers of RSS quota residents were killed and four seriously injured .