ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's government has increased security of the father of the country's nuclear programme Abdul Qadeer Khan amid fears of an Abbottabad-type raid which killed Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.

WASHINGTON: The White House said on Thursday it was possible that President Barack Obama would meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York next week if Tehran signaled it was serious about giving up its nuclear programme.

NEW DELHI: The Muzaffarnagar riots threaten to bring apart the ambitious social coalition that Mulayam Singh Yadav has been attempting with aggressive polarization politics and anti-quota rhetoric.

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation will on Friday start a probe into the conspiracy behind the missing Coalgate files, suspected to have been removed or destroyed to protect officials and their political masters involved in allotment of coal blocks to private entities - many with dubious financial credibility.

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh's additional director general of police (law and order) Arun Kumar went on leave on Wednesday, giving rise to speculation that he was "upset" about political interference in administrative functioning. Although Kumar is expected to rejoin by Sunday, his going on leave just a day after it was revealed that he has sought Central deputation gave the Opposition enough reason to assail the SP government for "politicizing" the bureaucracy and police.

KOLKATA: The smug look on N Srinivasan's face at the end of the BCCI's marketing committee meeting in Mumbai on Thursday said it all. That is because Srinivasan is set to be elected president unopposed for an additional one-year term at the BCCI's Annual General Meeting in Chennai on September 29.

JAIPUR: The focus is understandably on Sachin Tendulkar as he pads up in the T20 format of the game for one last time. The Master Blaster arrived in Jaipur on Wednesday for Mumbai Indians' opening match against Rajasthan Royals here on Saturday.

LONDON: Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, may continue competing until the 2017 world championships in London, the Jamaican told the BBC on Thursday.

Kota . National Talent Search Examination ( NTSE ) in the final phase of the 1 thousand children in the country were selected . 184 of these children are from Kota coaching institutes and schools . Moreover , most points in the top 100 children from 4 to Kota .

Gwalior . Jiwaji University Examination Department confidential and frozen for years, the staff will transfer renewed . On Wednesday, the committee met to make the transfer policy . The Committee decided that \ ' confidential under the guidelines of the Department of Higher Education of the examination and the examination will not be transferred to the confidential section .