New Delhi, Nov. 11 : The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) has signed an MoU with Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. (UCIL) for joint cooperation in uranium exploration and development.

The MoU was signed in South Block by ONGC CMD R S Sharma and UCIL CMD Ramendra Gupta in the presence of Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy) Dr. Anil Kakodkar.

ONGC Directors Dr. A K Balyan, N K Mitra, D K Pande and U N Bose were also present on the occasion.

New Delhi - Indian equities dropped more than 6 per cent Tuesday, largely because investors were selling stocks to lock in profits from previous gains given the gloomy global economic outlook and negative trading on other Asian markets, analysts said.

A fall in India's exports for the first time in five years in October added to the negative outlook.

The 30-share Sensitive Index of the Bombay Stock Exchange closed at 9,839.69 points, 6.61 per cent below Monday's close.

The broader 50-share Nifty of the National Stock Exchange closed 6.66 per cent lower at 2,938.65.

New Delhi, Nov. 11: Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee accepted the resignation of five Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MPs from Bihar on Tuesday, days after they announced it in protest against the attacks on north Indians in Mumbai by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists.

The five MPs are Prabhunath Singh, Rajiv Ranjan Singh ''Lalan'', Kailash Baitha, Meena Singh and George Fernandes.

The party has seven Lok Sabha MPs, including one from Uttar Pradesh and one from Lakshadweep.

The MPs had handed over their resignations to Lok Sabha Secretary General P D T Acharya on Friday.

New Delhi - The Indian Navy successfully warded off an attack by pirates on an Indian merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, a navy release said.

New Delhi, Nov 11 : President Pratibha Patil today said the education system should have the dynamism to be able to constantly adjust to the rapid changes.

Addressing at the First National Education Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of eminent freedom fighter and educationalist Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Patil said that the real challenge before education system is to create a human resource that can take advantage of new opportunities and face new challenges.

New Delhi, November 11 : Angelina Jolie, who loves running after her six children, has revealed that she will ‘definitely’ have more kids.

The Academy Award-winner said that both she and beau Brad Pitt teamed up to help each other out with the kids and wouldn’t mind chasing some more in the house, reports China Daily.

The Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency told Access Hollywood at the “Kung Fu Panda” DVD release party at the Mann Chinese Theater in Los Angeles that she had a ‘great partner.

She said: “He’s the best daddy and we have fun, so whenever it gets hard we can just look at each other and find a way to laugh about and just appreciate that they’re only little once, and we should enjoy every minute,”