Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon arrived at Beijing on Sunday to attend a meeting of G-8 "outreach countries". Menon said that India is open to hosting a nuclear fuel bank, which will provide access to enriched nuclear fuel to nations. This is aimed at providing nuclear energy to a number of countries and at the same preventing access to the critical enrichment technology

Rahul Gandhi’s tour of the Bundelkhand region, followed by his first, on street  protest has caused a standoff between BSP and Congress. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on asked Rahul to stop his ‘political drama’. She also threatened that such actions can lead to BSP withdrawing its support from UPA.

Forty-four people, mostly young girls (about thirty two) were killed on their way to school, when the bus carrying them fell into the Narmada canal. Both the driver and the conductor of the bus are reported to be dead. The canal was 60 foot deep and only four children were able to be rescued from the accident.

Mr Arun Jaitley who is currently BJP general secretary in charge of the Karnataka Assembly elections released the first list of 136 names of for the candidates who will be contesting the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections. The state of Karnataka is divided into 223 constituencies of Legislative assembly, so the 136 names released by BJP represent more than 50 percent of the total seats for grabs in the next election. BJP had 79 seats in the dissolved Karnataka Assembly and was the single largest party.