Dismissing the denials by the External Affairs Minister, Mr. Jaswant Singh, the India today weekly today said it stood by its report on the U.S. having sought a `military alliance' with India and that New Delhi had rejected the proposal. Reacting to Mr. Singh's comments in Washington terming the report as ``wonderful fiction'', it said in a press release here that the Minister was falling back on `diplomatic nuances' and his interpretation of `military alliance'.