The meetings come amid ongoing discussions over possible shifts in political alignments and days after senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was attempting to secure support from regional parties for the proposed Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill

Researchers found that microbes living in water from a flooded uranium mine removed nearly all of the dissolved uranium and converted much of it into an unexpectedly stable compound after receiving glycerol as a food source