Portal:Current events/India/2008 August 9

August 9, 2008 (Saturday)

The United States has circulated the draft amendment to the guidelines of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) ahead of its meeting on August 21 and 22 to consider India’s case. The Hindu Curfew was clamped and Army conducted flag march in Poonch on Friday even as calm prevailed in Jammu, the scene of violent protests over the revocation of the forestland transfer to the Amarnath Shrine Board. Times of India Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday said he was not making any effort to rejoin the party. Economic Times Exactly two years after he was suspended from the Congress, former foreign minister Natwar Singh is likely to join the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Saturday. Hindustan Times