Portal:Current events/India/2008 July 11


 * The UPA government has announced that the vote of confidence will take place on July 22. A two-day special session of Parliament will be called on July 21. (NDTV.com)
 * In daring attacks, CPI (Maoist) rebels blew up railway tracks, twice in less than 12 hours, blasted a portion of a block office in Jamui district and damaged a railway line in adjoining Lakhisarai. (Reuters India)
 * The Opposition Congress urged Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur to refer the defection of legislators 'engineered' by the BJP to a CBI probe and recommend dismissal of the BS Yeddyurappa government. (Expressindia.com)