New Delhi - India will not accept any preconditions to get an exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to implement the India-US civil nuclear energy deal, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Saturday.

"We have to see what kind of amendments come. Then only we can decide. But we cannot accept prescriptive conditionalities," Mukherjee told the PTI news agency during a tour to the eastern state of West Bengal.

New Delhi: People of Jammu and Srinagar have displayed an enormous capacity to be active, demonstrating and venting their anger against each other during the last two months.

The basic issue that sparked off the demonstrations was the transfer of 100 acres of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, mainly in Baltal, to set up pre-fabricated structures for the use of pilgrims. But the controversy has now grown beyond the issue of the transfer of land.

New Delhi - Four Indian soldiers, including a colonel, were killed in a gunbattle with suspected Islamic militants in the Kupwara district of northern Jammu and Kashmir state on Friday, news reports said.

Four militants were also killed in the encounter in the dense forests of the Macchal sector near the line of control, a de facto border that separates India and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, PTI news agency reported.

New Delhi, Aug 22 : The four players of Haryana, who had reached quarterfinals of their respective events at Beijing Olympics would be rewarded by appointment as Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP).

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday announced the rewards in recognition of their significant achievement at the Beijing Olympics.

While speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Hooda said that a boxing academy would be established in Bhiwani and a wrestling academy would be set up at an appropriate place in Haryana.