Fusion arms may make CTBT obsolete
The Indian angst over the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty may be increasingly irrelevant as a whole new generation of nuclear weapon technologies are on the horizon which could render international non-proliferation treaties like the NPT and CTBT irrelevant.

EC calls Thackeray to decide on penalty
The Election Commission has issued notice to Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray to appear before it on August 14 for a hearing on the quantum of punitive measure against him in the light of a 1995 Supreme Court verdict finding him and his party's candidate Y Prabhu guilty of electoral malpractices in a Maharashtra Assembly by-election.

Mamata with Cong for Dy Speaker poll
The Congress-led bloc seems to have pulled off a coup of sorts by getting Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on its side for the crucial election of the Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker.

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