No prizes for guessing who will be absent when two high-powered national committees headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meet on Thursday at his 7, Race Course Road residence. Quite expectedly, it will be Union railway minister and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee who will not be present when the two panels meet.

While her ministry was busy tying itself in knots on Tuesday over the stampede at the New Delhi railway station on Sunday that has so far claimed three lives, Union railway minister Mamata Banerjee wa

India’s quest for energy security continues on course with New Delhi close to finalising an umbrella nuclear agreement on the peaceful use of nuclear energy with this energy-rich Central Asian country. In addition, India is also close to signing a contract with Kazakhstan for exploration and production from an oil block in a country known for its rich reserves of hydrocarbons.

May 11: External affairs minister S.M. Krishna has indicated that terror would form part of the dialogue between India and Pakistan when he meets his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Islamabad a little over two months from now.