Nov. 9: Rejecting the claim that the Government of India suggested spiritual leader Dalai Lama to visit Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor on Monday said, India’s policy does not deal with the "spiritual travel" of "spiritual leaders".

Nov. 9: India and Russia were on the same page on the issue of terrorist threat emanating from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and stressed the need for consolidated global action against the menace.

Nov. 9: The human resources development ministry will not be able to table the much-awaited bill for setting up the National Commission for Higher Education and Research in the upcoming Winter session of Parliament.

Nov. 9: Samajwadi Party’s UP chief Akhilesh Yadav, whose wife Dimple is locked in a keen electoral battle for the Firozabad Lok Sabha byelection, has claimed that his party would win by around 30,000 votes. The outcome of the Firozabad is set to be out on Tuesday.

Nov. 9: The BJP central leadership is apparently upset with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for the Sangh’s attempt to take complete control of the organisation and thrust a leader of its choice as the new BJP chief. Sources disclosed that some of the top leaders of the organisation were holding parleys to take on the RSS and get the organisation out of its grip.

Nov. 8: Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani, on whom pressure is mounting to relinquish the Leader of Opposition post, celebrated his 83rd birthday on Sunday. President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar wished the BJP leader. While Ms Patil sent flowers to him, Dr Singh and Lok Sabha Speaker wished him over phone.

Nov. 8: The Indian government, perhaps for the first time ever, has said it suspects that neighbouring China, with which it has been sharing a particularly prickly relationship of late, has been supplying small arms to the Maoist insurgents in this country.

Nov. 2: Karnataka’s Reddy versus Yeddy confrontation is far from over. While rebel leader Gali Janardhan Reddy placed his five-point formula before the BJP leadership at a two-hour meeting of senior party leaders at the residence of Mr L.K. Advani in New Delhi, the BJP tried to put a lid on the crisis and the Karnataka strongman refused to buckle.

Nov. 2: A suicide bomber on Monday killed at least 35 people and injured around 50 others when he slammed his explosives-laden motorcycle into a bank in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near here, when the people were queuing to collect their salaries. The Rawalpindi blast was followed by another suicide bombing, this time in Lahore where two terrorists blew themselves up at the Babu Sabu inter-change police checkpoint, wounding 25 people, mostly policemen, officials said.