Dharamsala, Aug 11 : Continuing with their agitation against China, Tibetan nuns and monks here staged a protest today.

Around 30 nuns and monks from the Dhomalin nunnery sat in silent protest against Chinese atrocities inside Tibet.

The protesters said they were not against Olympics as generally believed but were protesting against the human rights violation by the host country, inside Tibet.

New Delhi, Aug 11 : Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen will deliver the inaugural Professor Hiren Mukherjee Annual Parliamentary Lecture in the Central Hall of Parliament today.

The lecture on "Demands of Social Justice" will be presided over by Vice President Hamid Ansari, while Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will be the chief guest.

The lecture is expected to be attended by several dignitaries and guests.

A portrait of Mukherjee will also be unveiled on the occasion.

New Delhi, Aug 10 : Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen will deliver the inaugural Professor Hiren Mukherjee Annual Parliamentary Lecture in the Central Hall of Parliament tomorrow.

The lecture on “Demands of Social Justice” will be presided over by Vice President Hamid Ansari, while Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will be the chief guest.

The lecture is expected to be attended by several dignitaries and guests.

A portrait of Mukherjee will also be unveiled on the occasion.

New Delhi, Aug 10: President Pratibha Patil felicitated the country's freedom fighters here late last evening.

The occasion was the 66th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, a deciding phase in India's freedom struggle that finally led to the independence from British rule.

Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh were also present on the occasion.

Freedom fighters, however, expressed contrasting views on the country's progress since independence.

New Delhi  - A delegation of all major Indian political parties on Saturday failed to reach an understanding with agitators spearheading protests over land for a Hindu shrine in Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir state, leading to fears of further violence.

More than 18 people have died and scores been injured in protests for and against a proposal to give state-owned forest land to a body that runs the annual pilgrimage to the Hindu cave shrine of Amarnath in the high Himalayas.

New Delhi  - Indian authorities have issued a birth certificate to a Japanese baby born to an Indian surrogate mother, easing the way for her Japanese father to take her home, news reports said Saturday.

The certificate was issued by the municipal authorities in Anand town of western Gujarat state, where 16-day-old Manji was born, in the name of her father biological Ikufumi Yamada, IANS news agency reported.

Manji, who was shifted to a hospital in another Indian town, Jaipur, days after she was born, is at the centre of a legal wrangle as India does not have any surrogacy laws.