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The Delhi High Court Tuesday admitted an appeal demanding the copy of the post-mortem report of the three people killed in the Batla House shootout.

Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday played down the absence of the chief ministers of Bihar and Jharkhand, Nitish Kumar and Shibu Soren, from a meeting here called to draw up a blueprint for inter-state operations against the Maoists.

The central government has sanctioned Rs.23 crore for upgrading security in the national capital region (NCR), particularly Delhi's suburban towns of Gurgaon and Faridabad towns in Haryana, in view of the 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG).

The central government Tuesday reiterated its offer for talks if Maoists halted violence, but warned the Leftwing guerrillas that "slow and steady" operations against them would continue if they did not pay heed to the appeal.

The deadlocked peace talks between New Delhi and the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) will resume in April after nearly a year, union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said Tuesday.

As Maoists again blasted train tracks in Bihar and Jharkhand during their 72-hour shutdown, the government Tuesday warned that operations against the guerrillas would continue but also offered talks if the violence stopped.

The concerns that India and other Asian nations will face on security and other fronts two decades hence will be the focus of a three-day conference that Defence Minister A.K. Antony will inaugurate here Thursday, its organisers said.

Dry runs to check the level of security preparedness, emergency response, behaviour and coordination among various agencies ahead of the New Delhi Commonwealth Games will kick off at a shooting competition at the Dr Karni Singh shooting range in south-east Delhi Wednesday.

Iran Tuesday started the 20 percent uranium enrichment process, the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organisation said.

Reiterating his offer for talks if Maoists halted violence, Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday said the government was forced to continue its operations in Maoist insurgency-hit states as the rebels had spurned previous such appeals.