London, April 1: Ahead of the G-20 economic summit, India on Wednesday said that there was a need for more transparency on the Pakistan’s nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan issue.

Addressing the media, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon here said that there was a need for the international community to work together to prevent any future possibility of recurrence of nuclear technology proliferation.

New Delhi, Apr 1: The new Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief, Mohan Bhagwat, has said there was no opposition to the group within the country.

Speaking here on Tuesday, Bhagwat said that nobody really opposed the RSS and if they did, it was just because of their own selfish motives.

Kendrapara (Orissa), Apr. 1: A tornado on Tuesday evening killed at least 12 people and injured 150 others in villages of Orissa''s Kendrapara district.

"Twelve bodies were recovered so far after the furious tornado swept 11 villages in five gram panchayats. A large number of people were injured," Additional Superintendent of Police Kumarmani Meher said.

However, local panchayat raj functionaries and residents of Rajkanika block have put the death toll at 20.

New Delhi, Apr. 1: President Pratibha Patil has inducted the new state-of-the-art VVIP jets into the Indian Air Force before going on board its maiden flight to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

The new jets can double as an office-in-the sky and a command centre in an emergency situation, like a nuclear attack.

"The trip would now be more business like. We will get more time to study, concentrate and apply our minds as the flight will be more smooth," said Patil at the inauguration ceremony.

New Delhi, Mar 31: Taking notice of a letter written by the mother of a month-old child, alleging carelessness by a doctor of All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the Delhi High Court on Tuesday said internal disputes at the hospital would not to be tolerated at the cost of those suffering.

Expressing concern over the doctors not performing their duties properly, the bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah said, "No body should be victimised because of ego clash."

New Delhi, Mar 31: Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunas urged the government on Tuesday to strengthen the micro economic system for speeding up the growth process in rural India and take measures for the betterment of women.

Addressing a two-day conference on women of South Asia, Partners in development, Yunas, a Bangladeshi banker and economist who founded the Grameen bank, emphasised on economic concerns of women and other deprived sections of society.