http://www.rediff.com/news/ India's largest news and entertainment service online. en-us Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:30:12 GMT Copyright: (C) 2008 Rediff.com India Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://www.rediff.com/uim/red_log.gif http://www.rediff.com/ 144 28 Visit rediff.com http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/07sp.htm As Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh threatened withdrawal of support to the UPA government over the Jamia Nagar encounter, party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday said the support was extended in the national interest and there was no question of its withdrawal. http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/07pak1.htm Rattled by a string of suicide bombings, Pakistani lawmakers will receive a rare briefing by top military and intelligence brass on the security situation during a special joint session of Parliament tomorrow as part of the government's efforts to evolve a "home-grown" anti-terror policy to take the militancy "head-on". http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/07maitri.htm Maitri, the 16-year-old San Francisco organisation, is looking to expand its work not only with abused South Asian women but also young people in the community who could face violence from their partners, or students who may become victims of violence from their peers. http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/07aids.htm Luc Montagnier, 76, said a treatment could be possible in the future with a 'therapeutic' rather than preventive vaccine for which results might be published in three or four years if financial backing is forthcoming. http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/07upavote.htm Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party member H T Sangliana and rebel Janata Dal-United leader Ramswaroop Prasad, who voted in favour of the United Progressive Alliance government in the July 22 confidence motion, were disqualified on Tuesday from the Lok Sabha under anti-defection provisions of the Constitution. http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/07ndeal1.htm President George W Bush is all set to sign the legislation on Indo-US nuclear deal into law on Wednesday after the landmark agreement got the Congressional nod, a move which will leave behind a foreign policy legacy for his administration. Bush, who had entered into the civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh three years ago, will sign the Bill HR 7081 on the nuclear deal at the East Room of the White House. http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/07nobel.htm American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature. http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/07assam.htm An official source informed that though there was no report of fresh violence from any part of the two affected districts, the situation remained very tense. Ten additional companies of Border Security Force personnel had been deployed in the two districts where 16 columns of the army along with a large number of police and paramilitary force personnel were already operating. http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/07delblast1.htm The Mumbai police on Tuesday invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act against twenty alleged Indian Mujahideen operatives who have been arrested. http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/07inter.htm 'The Lashkar-e-Tayiba says it has nothing to do with the Indian Mujahideen. It is just the police which seems to be going on and on about this new outfit. Sometimes I wonder if it is a creation. No one is sure who is doing what. The police ought to come clean on all the allegations that they are making before any of us can jump to any conclusion,' says SAR Geelani