NEW DELHI: Veteran Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande passed away in the national capital early Thursday morning. She was 79.

SHIMLA: The opposition Congress in Himachal Pradesh Thursday asked the Election Commission to order removal of hoardings put up by the ruling BJP in Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency as they were in violation of its model code.

NEW DELHI: Breaking the ice on the allegations of corruption against his Shipping Minister, the Prime Minister said that his office had done nothing unusual on the T R Baalu issue.

 WASHINGTON: India was among the countries worst affected by terror with militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and in the Northeast, strikes by Naxalites and attacks elsewhere in the country taking a toll of more than 2,300 lives in 2007, the US State department said in its annual report on terrorism.