Minister of state for parliamentary affairs Rajiv Shukla said that the government will try its level best to ensure passage of the landmark food bill on August 20. “We will try to resolve the matter through talks... We will push it (the bill) hard on the 20th,” he said.

In a couple of days, the two female rhinoceros at the National Zoological Park at New Delhi will have a new mate in Shiva, the solitary male one-horned rhinoceros at the Byculla zoo. Following an agonising wait of five days, Shiva finally stepped into the transport cage on Sunday. He would be shifted to the New Delhi zoo by Wednesday.

It’s not often that one witnesses players spanning generations come together, with mastery being the common binding factor between them. Batting legends G.R. Viswanath, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly got together on Saturday to talk shop.

Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday questioned the Orissa government’s wisdom to focus on the mining sector instead of agriculture to achieve faster economic development.

Top arrested Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative Abdul Karim Tunda has exposed the flourishing anti-India terror network of Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He has spilled the beans on the ISI-Lashkar-Babbar Khalsa (BKI) network where more than a dozen Sikh militants are being given shelter, funding, training in weapons and explosives for unleashing terror strikes in the country.

With change in technology, technique and formats, it has become increasingly hard to classify players as complete all-rounders. But in the 1980’s when international cricket was played under just two formats, the traditional Test being more favoured, the men who led the pack of complete performance belonged to four different parts of the world.

The rivalry in Chhattisgarh Congress on Sunday took an ugly turn with the anti-Ajit Jogi group circulating pamphlets apparently to denigrate the alleged rebel party leader’s image in public.

The Army said on Sunday that Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire twice in the past 24 hours by targeting Indian forwards posts along the Line of Control (LoC) with small arms, machine-gun and mortar fire in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district.

Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has defended banned spinner Danish Kaneria, questioning the evidence of spot-fixing against him by claiming that the alleged Indian bookmaker suspected to be close to the bowler has been Pakistan Cricket Board’s official guest on several occasions.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, during the course of his “Jan Ashirwad Yatra” on Sunday said that the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre is responsible for rising prices, corruption and insecurity and this has frustrated the people who now want a Congress-free Madhya Pradesh.