NEW DELHI: While looking to reduce border tensions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will seek to prioritize investment and business by easing norms for business and tourist visas during his visit to China next week.

 NEW DELHI: Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind leader Mehmood Madani's comment that Congress was invoking Narendra Modi to scare Muslims triggered a political war of words, with Congress slamming the statement and BJP claiming vindication.

PATNA: Eleven coaches of an express train heading to Assam derailed near Patna Sahib station under Danapur division of East Central Railway zone last night, but no casualty was reported.

CHATRAPUR(GANJAM): Cyclone Phailin has blown over, but Odisha government is bracing for the next big challenge: distributing relief to millions of people affected by the destruction the powerful storm has left in its wake.

NEW DELHI: Former Gujarat minister and CM Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah has denied all claims made by jailed IPS officer D G Vanzara, raising the bar for the CBI to prove the complicity of politicians in the string of fake encounters in the state.

NEW DELHI: Just a few days after the violent brawl between officers and jawans of an infantry battalion near Meerut, another officer-jawan face-off apparently took place in the National Cadet Corps (NCC) battalion at Batala in Punjab on Monday.

GOPALPUR/CHATRAPUR: With meteorological warning systems working efficiently and swift reaction by the Odisha government and the Centre, the strongest cyclone to strike the country in the last 14 years began dissipating on Sunday, thwarted from its destructive potential by the mass evacuation of close to nine lakh people into cyclone shelters in a matter of hours and days.

 NEW DELHI: TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, who was discharged from a hospital in Delhi on Sunday after a week-long fast over Andhra Pradesh's bifurcation, attacked Congress and the group of ministers (GoM) formed by it to sort out the Telangana issue.

DHARAMSHALA: On Sunday morning, a police team at Palampur, 40km from here, detected the use of satellite phones in the area, after which information was sent to police headquarters and a team headed by assistant superintendent of police, Mohit Chawla, rushed to the spot. After searching for hours, some foreign nationals were traced and detained with their satellite phones.

NEW DELHI: The lingering embarrassment over the way it had to junk the ordinance on convicted lawmakers found an expression in the meeting of the Cabinet on Tuesday.