| Afghan leader to push for Indian military aid | | Afghan President Hamid Karzai will try and secure more military aid in talks with Indian leaders on Tuesday as he looks to beef up his security forces after international troops pull out next year. | | Pentagon to take over some CIA drone operations | | President Barack Obama’s administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations against terrorism suspects overseas that are currently run by the CIA, several US government sources said on Monday. | | No new H7N9 cases in China for a week | | No new human cases of the H7N9 virus have been recorded in China for a week, national health authorities said, for the first time since the outbreak began in March. | | Obama aides knew of tax probe; president not told | | The White House chief of staff and other senior presidential advisers knew in late April that an upcoming report was likely to find that employees of the US tax agency had inappropriately targeted conservative political groups — but they didn’t tell President Barack Obama. | | North Korea releases detained Chinese fishing boat | | North Korea released a Chinese fishing boat on Tuesday after it was taken from waters between the two countries, the boat’s owner said, in an incident that had proved a new irritant in ties between the often uneasy allies. | | 51 dead as massive tornado roars through US suburb | | A tornado of rare power roared through an Oklahoma City suburb, killing at least 51, flattening neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph (320 kilometers) and destroying at least one school. Officials said children were among the dead. | | Two ministers charged in Jagan case forced to quit | | HYDERABAD - After the exit of Union ministers Pawan Bansal and Ashwani Kumar, it is now the turn of two ministers in the Congress-ruled Andhra Pradesh to resign following the CBI naming them as the accused in the illegal assets case involving the jailed MP and YSR Congress Party President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. | | Gujarat minority students to get scholarship | | AHMEDABAD - In yet another humiliating climb-down, the Narendra Modi government has finally agreed to implement the Centre-sponsored pre-matric scholarship scheme for minority students, mostly Muslims, after battling it out in the Gujarat High Court and the Supreme Court. | |
