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The big stories of the day before you leave Live! news...

No stapled for visas for J&K media to China

Soon... biometric PAN cards

Pawar quit GoM to avoid controversies: Patel

France: Woman arrested on day 1 of burqa ban

U2 world record for highest grossing tour

Not born a captain, I made errors: Afridi

2G trial: SC appoints Lalit as public prosecutor

On anniversary another quake jolts Japan

Don't waste time, resign: Hazare tells Sibal

Raja's brother arrested for bribing voters

Pranab: 'Amul' Rahul comment uncivilised

Binayak Sen bail plea postponed to Friday

IT raids on Lilavati Hospital

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi back in the news, obviously for the wrong reasons. The PM today attacked Italian prosecutors as he returned to court in Milan to defend himself against charges of fraud involving his business empire Mediaset.

He said there should be an overhaul of Italy's justice system to prevent it becoming "a weapon of political struggle" -- after his government earlier this year proposed reforms seen as curbing the power of investigating magistrates.

The prime minister also condemned his trial on charges of sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power which began last week. The accusations were "laughable, unfounded and crazy," he said.

Berlusconi, 74, is accused of paying for sex on several occasions last year with a then 17-year-old Karima El Mahroug and then using his status to get her released from police custody in a later incident to cover up his alleged crime. The charges are punishable by up to 12 years in prison.

Four scribes of J&K origin were today issued regular visas by the Chinese embassy in Delhi raising hopes that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's November visit to the national capital and his promise that he would look into the issue of stapled visas, had finally bornefruit. The journalists are accompanying the PM to China.

In January this year,two Indian sportsmen from Arunachal Pradesh, which it claims as 'Southern Tibet' had been issued stapled visas.

Some high-profile terrorists are reportedly operating their suicidal networks from brothels, in the guise of hotels and guesthouses, in Pakistan.

"We have traced a few phone calls of high-profile terrorists operating their suicidal network from these brothels,' a DIG of the Punjab Police Headquarters, said, adding that the brothels have become the safe havens for terrorists in the City.

The government has decided to issue biometric PAN cards to taxpayers across the country to weed out the problem of duplicate and fake ones.

The decision was taken recently by the Finance Ministry and it comes in the wake of a Comptroller and Auditor General report that asked the Income Tax department to ensure that a single tax payer is not issued multiple cards.

The proposed new biometric Permanent Account Number cards would bear the I-T assessee' fingerprints (two from each hand) and the face.

There could be an option to existing PAN card holders to opt for the biometric cards, but it may not be mandatory.

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Almost a five days after NCP supremo Sharad Pawar resigned from the GoM on corruption, senior NCP leader Praful Patelhasfinally come out in his support. Patel said Pawar quit only to avoid controversies, but it did not mean that the charges levelled against him by Anna Hazare were correct.

"Pawar is a leader of high standing. Also, he did not want to enter into any controversy and that's why he said I do not want to be associated with any of these processes. That does not mean that in any way he is in acknowledgement of whatever has been spoken," Patel said.

JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy's remarks that Mahatma Gandhi would have turned corrupt in the present day politics today drew sharp reaction from leaders including Gandhian Anna Hazare, who wondered how the country could eliminate corruption if leaders talk like this.

More reactions:

• Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee: "No, I will not comment. It is a meaningless utterance and I will not give (my) reaction to it."
• Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad asked, "What else can you except from Mr Kumaraswamy? Nothing better."
• Kumaraswamy clarified: "I have not told even if Mahatma Gandhiji if he was alive at this moment and if he was in politics even he would have corrupt. That is not the word I said. In this situation I think he (Mahatma Gandhi) would have run away from politics. That is the word I used."

Canadian-American actor Michael J. Fox wants Charlie Sheen to return to work on hit TV sitcom Two and a Half Men.

Sheen was axed from the sitcom last month (March 11) after weeks of controversy, which included a public feud with the show's creator Chuck Lorre, hospitalisations, rehab and a number of headline-grabbing stunts.

Fox insisted that he has no plans to take over the troubled star''s role in the series -- and is praying Sheen overcomes his personal problems and is reinstated on the comedy.

A woman was arrested at Avignon station in Francethis morning as she tried to board a train for Paris wearing the naqab on the first day of the controversial new law on wearing the burqa and naqab.

The French paper Connexion reports thatthe arrest comes after a weekend where around 60 people were arrested in the run-up to a planned demonstration against the law in the Place de la Nation in Paris.Most of those arrested were men.

They were said to include Islamic radical Anjem Choudary, leader of the now-banned Islam4UK group in Britain. Fears of violence had prompted the Prfecture de Police to ban the protest.

The woman arrested in Avignon was heading to Paris for a TV interview on the burqa ban and said it was an "attack on my European rights, my freedom to come and go, my religious freedom'. She faces a '150 fine or a compulsory citizenship course.

Passed in October, the law against concealing your identity in a public place came into force today after a six-month delay for assimilation. It forbids the full veil, which leaves only a small slit for the eyes, and the burqa, which is a full veil with a lace cover in front of the eyes.

It is thought that up to 2,000 women wear the veils.Forcing a woman to wear a burqa or niqab could lead to a penalty of 12-months' jail and a '30,000 fine. The penalty is doubled for forcing a minor to wear the veil.

The law also bans people from wearing masks or full balaclavas, except during fetes, artistic performances or sports events.

Interestingly, on this day in 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, abdicates the throne as per Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the island of Elba.

On to something more pleasant.

U2's current worldwide 360 tour has become the highest grossing in history, beating the record previously set by The Rolling Stones between 2005-2007.

The Irish rockers passed the $558 million world record following their concert in Sao Paolo, Brazil, last night. The tour kicked off in July 2009 in Barcelona and still has more than 20 gigs to go. More than seven million tickets have been sold to date for 110 shows, reports bbc.co.uk.

Not something anybody should go through...

Two families from Delhi arrived in Ajmer to identify the body of a young woman, which was recovered in a large parcel box dispatched through a transport company in Kishangarh town in Ajmer district last week.

The body was parceled from Delhi to Ajmer in a box through a transport company and was found by workers of the transportation company on April 8 in their Madanganj-Kishangarh (Ajmer) office after foul smell started emanating from the parcel.

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham's daughter will be born with a marked disadvantage. Victoria has decided to name her to-be born daughter -- Santa --taking inspiration from an American suburb.

The 36-year-old singer-fashion designer, who is expecting her fourth child with soccer star David Beckham this summer, is considering names for the new arrival and was inspired by the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica.

"Posh thinks Santa Beckham has a lovely ring to it and wants something unique. David prefers something traditional, but will probably go along with what she chooses," said a source.

She certainly has our sympathies.

Homosexual men may soon be able to donate blood as a ban stopping them from doing so is soon to be lifted.

The ban is being lifted after it was decided that it could be discriminatory and might breach equality legislation.

But gay men will be allowed to donate only if they have abstained from sex for a decade, with those who are sexually active continuing to be barred.

Donated blood is screened for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases but a tiny number of infections are missed because there can be a time lag before they show themselves.

The current system is based on trust. There are no checks to ensure donors are telling the truth about their sexuality and around seven percent of sexually active gay men are thought to give blood despite the ban.

Obituary: For a generation weened on Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, the name Sidney Lumet would not ring a bell.

Here's a read...

The great American filmmakerSidney Lumetdied Saturday morning, April 10, of lymphoma at his home in New City. He was 86. Lumet made movies for grown-ups -- strongly written, well-acted stories about grown-ups that he brought to the screen with a straight-forwardness that let allowed material and performers to breath but didn't sacrifice the naturalism and subtle artistry that was the his trademark.

Firm but unobtrusive, his direction of such modern classics asNetwork,Dog Day AfternoonandNetwork, among his more than 50 films, is masterful in its naturalistic presentation and confidence.

Pakistan's politico-religious party Jamaat-e-Islaami has taken offence to a private school teaching kathak to its students, terming the dance form as being against the values of the country while threatening that the practice would "not be tolerated".

The private school has hired professionals to hold kathak classes for students who are interested in learning it.

The semifinal loss to India in the World Cup continues to rankle Pakistan's ODI captain Shahid Afridi who said it was a mistake to position himself in the lower-half of the batting order in the high-voltage game. Afridi said on a show on Geo News, "I am not a born captain and I also make mistakes. I made mistakes in the World Cup particularly in the semi-final at Mohali. I should have gone up the order like Mahendra Singh Dhoni did against Sri Lanka in the final at Mumbai."

On India: "I am not against India or Indian people or Hindus. There are Hindus living in Pakistan just like Muslims in India and since this is a very sensitive issue I have decided that from now on I will not speak on it," Afridi said.

Finally, somebody's talking sense.

CPI-M in Kerala today hit back at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and AICC chief Sonia Gandhi for their alleged remarks that LDF was living in the past, saying the Front's policies were not for generating millionaires, but for alleviating poverty.

The LDF did not believe in the "new line of Prime Minister and Gandhi of generating millionaires in the country," CPI-M state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan told reporters here.

The Prime Minister at election campaigns in Kottayam and Kollam last week had said, "It is unfortunate that the Left Front refuses to change with time."

Gandhi had also remarked that the left Front was opposed to "every modern, forward looking development."

A quake measuring 7.1 jolts eastern and north-eastern parts of Japan. A tsunami warning has been issued on the Pacific. Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning, predicting a potential wave of two-meters in Miyagi, Fukushima and Chiba and Ibaraki prefectures (the same places that were struck by last month's quake).

The quake was centered about 164 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, according to the USGS. Residents in Tokyo felt the jolts.

Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were asked to evacuate. No radiation fears yet, but power supply to the plant has been shut down.

Almost 13,000 people are known to have died and 15,000 more are missing in the last month's earthquake-cum-tsunami. The damage is thought to have cost $300bn, making it the most expensive natural disaster in history.

Even before the 10-member committee on the Lokpal Bill panel has begun business, Anna Hazare and Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal are already at war. Hazare said Sibal should resign from the joint committee, "if he feels nothing will happen" out of this institution.

"Why is he wasting his and our time? He should do other things for the country. Why does he want to be in the committee. If you believe that nothing will happen, you should not be there in the joint committee, he should resign and do some other work," he told reporters before he left for his hometown in Maharashtra.

Sibal had yesterday told a public meeting, "I ask this question, if a poor child does not have any means for education, then how will Lokpal Bill help? If a poor man needs help for medical services then he will call up a politician. How will Lokpal Bill help."

Sibal told reporters today that he was with the Gandhian and that he wanted the Bill to be drafted as early as possible and to be effective in tackling corruption everywhere.

Clarifying his earlier remarks, he said what he had meant was that "the scope of the Bill is different. The problems of the common man are different." "I said that if you want to educate children, then this has no connection to Lokpal. If there is no convenience of water...Lokpal is only connected to corruption and we will bring a good bill that will stop corruption."

He said they would sit with Hazare and bring out a bill so that the objective will be realised.

While we wait for mor news on the Japan quake, in Pakistan, the alleged mastermind of a recent suicide attack on a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's Punjab province that killed 50 people has been arrested along with five of his associates after a shootout.

Behram Khan, who is believed to have plotted the April 3 attack on Sakhi Sarwar shrine near Dera Ghazi Khan, was captured following a clash with security forces.

Five of his associates were also arrested, while one suspected militant was killed in the clash.

The war inAfghanistanis destabilisingPakistanand seriously undermining efforts to restore its democratic institutions and economic prosperity after a decade of military dictatorship, Pakistan's president,Asif Ali Zardari, has told the Guardian.

Speaking during an exclusive interview in the imposing presidential residence in Islamabad, Zardari also pointed to widespread concern in Pakistan at the slow pace of efforts to end the Afghan conflict, and said some US politicians showed limited understanding of the impact of American policies.

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Tamil Nadu pre-poll theatrics ends today -- the last day of campaigning for the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly will come to an end today. The state votes on April 13.

It's been an acrimonious campaign marked by personal attacks, both by leaders of ruling and opposition parties. The fate of 2,773 candidates, including DMK leader and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi (Tiruvarur), his arch rival and AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa (Srirangam), Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin (Kolathur) and DMDK founder A Vijayakanth (Rishivandyam) will be decided on Wednesday.

Personal attacks against Karunanidhi and his family members by Jayalalithaa and Vijayakanth and against AIADMK chief by Stalin during the electioneering and complaints by the rival part leaders against each other to the Election Commission forced it to send notices to these leaders seeking explanations.

Kiran Bedi:Anna's Fast and upsurge was preventable if PM had earlier accepted D request for joint drafting committee when Anna and we met him in Feb.

Kiran Bedi was with Anna Hazare right through.

Meanwhile, the man who channelised the nation's anger over the scams and corruption into a mandate for the Lokpal Bill is to get a warm welcome at his village.

Preparations are in full swing at Ralegan Siddhi here today from Delhi, after government gave into his demands on the Jan Lokpal Bill.

The village in Parner tehsil saw people hoisting 'gudis' to celebrate the grand victory.

An attractive cracker show has been arranged to welcome Hazare. Also, huge amount of sweets have been prepared for distribution on the occasion. Bhajan and lezim mandals from all over district have reached Ralegan to accord a warm homecoming to Hazare, who broke his 98-hour-long fast on Saturday after the government issued a notification for drafting an effective Lokpal Bill.

Former Telecom Minister A Raja has an illustrious family.

Hisbrother has been arrested on charges of "bribing" voters in Perumbalur district in the run up to the April 13 Tamil Nadu assembly polls.

A Kalia Perumal was allegedly caught "red-handed" last night while distributing money at Labbakudi Kadu and Irayur, the second time he has been involved in such an incident in as many days.

He was produced before a court which released him on bail, they said.

Kalia Perumal, a businessman, has been slapped with cases under various sections of IPC, including bribery and violation of Representation of People's Act. Police said they also seized some calendars and diaries from his possession.

Read more on Raja ka bhai

More on telecom minister Kapil Sibal's new licencing framework.

He says:

• The new telecom policy 2011 will be finalised by the year-end.
• 
  Rules that application for renewal of a licence should 30 months in advance.
• 
  Drafting committee for national spectrum act to be formed under retired Judge Shivraj V Patil.
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  There will be regular audit of spectrum
• 
  The pricing mechanism for 2G spectrum will be decided on soon.

Just in: Anna Hazare has slammed telecom minister Kapil Sibal saying he should resign if he has no faith in the Lokpal Bill. Details areawaited on the full story, but it may remembered that Sibal represented the government during Anna's anti-graftfast unto deathstrike.Anna had also taken a dig at him for claiming that the 2G spectrum loss was in fact, zero.

Meanwhile, Sibal, who is presenting his report on 100 days as telecom minister,basically a telecom review,said today that:

• Mergers and acquisitions should be liberal
• There shouldnot be less than six competitors in each circle, including BSNL.
• Spectrum sharing would be considered and spectrum itself would be delinked from licencing.
• Licences would be renewed every 10 years and not 20 years as is the policy now.
• There would also be a regular audit and review of spectrum as part of the new licencing framework.

More poll news:

Defence Minister A K Antony today said Kerala would become the "second Bengal" if the Left alliance returned to power. "The Left rule of 30 years has done serious damage to West Bengal. If the LDF in Kerala is voted back to power, the state will be the second Bengal," the Congress veteran told a meet-the-press programme in Thiruvananthapuram on the concluding day of the camapign for the April 13 polls.

The "result" of prolonged Left Front rule in West Bengal "is poverty, unemployment and under development. Thousands of labourers from Bengal have migrated to other states in search of work," he alleged.

Given a leg up by Anna Hazare as the CM ofa stateworthy of emulation, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar quipped India was sitting on the powder keg of corruption and stressed that the country needs a spark to ignite a revolution as witnessed from the huge public response to social activist Hazare's demands for a strong anti-graft bill.

Nitish Kumar said today that, "India is sitting on the powder keg of corruption. The people have united against corruption and now people should read and understand the writings on the wall. People are not going to tolerate corruption any more."

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee responds to the Kerala CM V S Achutanandan's comment that Rahul Gandhi was a Amul baby.

He said he would not respond to uncivilised remarks. Achuthananadan hit back at Gandhi for his jibe at the Communist party of India-Marxist stalwart on his age, calling him an Amul baby.

Achuthananadan also countered Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his criticism that the Left rule had done serious damage to Kerala and West Bengal asking him not to speak with "hangover of a former International Monetary Fund officer".

The Amul comment comes in the wake of Gandhi's remark on 87-year-old Achutanandan's age. Gandhi (40), projected as the youth face of the Congress, had said at a campaign meeting in the state on Saturday that if the Left Democratic Front was re-elected, Kerala would have a 93-year-old as chief minister in five years time.

In France, thousands of people are expected to join demonstrations across the country as the controversial ban on wearing burqas comes into force.

The measure forbids women to hide their faces in public places, even in the streets. Anyone caught wearing the veil in public, faces a fine of 150 euro or a citizenship course -- or both, reports skynews.com. Anyone found forcing a woman to cover her face risks a year in prison and a 30,000 euro fine, and possibly twice that if the veiled person is a minor.

Pakistani security forces have killed seven militants in the Swat area. Pakistan had carried out a sweeping military operation in the area in 2009, bringing an end to two years of Taliban control.

Meanwhile, 30 suspected militants were arrested and five land mines were also inactivated by the security forces in a nearby area.

Here's one those interesting bits of information that squirrel away for cocktail parties. The washing machine is women's favourite time-saving gadgetary invention ever. For men, it's the computer, says a survey.

Over32 per cent women have voted the washing machine as the best time-saving invention in a survey by Internet service provider Hotmail. The mobile phone came in third overall -- a plus for both sexes -- followed by the dishwasher and the microwave.

The Supreme Court will now hear the bail plea of civil rights activist Binayak Sen, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of sedition and links with Naxalites, on Friday. The case was adjourned after the Chhattisgarh government asked for two days time to brief the advocate in the case.

Sen, 61, has challenged the order of the Chhattisgarh high court, which had rejected his bail plea on February 10.

A doctor from the prestigious Christian Medical College, Vellore, Sen has sought bail contending that the trial court has erred in convicting him when there was no substantial evidence.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has told survivors of last month's devastating tsunami that his government will never abandon them. Kan, on a tour of areas wrecked by the disaster, promised to do everything possible to help the communities, reports bbc.co.uk.

Read more and see the pictures

Just in: The Income Tax Department has begun raids on Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai, this morning.The searches were carried out in the purchase, bio-medical and pharma departments of the famous hospital, located in suburban Bandra.

The Supreme Court had last week issued notices to theCentre and RBI on a petition seeking probe into the allegedmoney laundering by the trustees of the hospital here.

The petition filed by Delhi resident Harsh Raghuvanshi sought investigation into the alleged siphoning of funds by hospital trustees Prabodh Mehta, Rashmi Mehta, Chetan Mehtaand Bhavin Mehta.

It has been alleged that the Mehtas have siphoned outmoney from the hospital and through the hawala route it hasbeen deposited in banks abroad including Mauritius.

The good news continues at Putaparthi. The condition of Sathya SaiBaba, who is undergoing treatment for multi-organ dysfunction,continues to be "stable" with a "slow" overall improvement inthe functioning of all organs, a medical bulletin said today. However he continues to be on ventilator and intermittent dialysis.

PM Manmohan Singh today asked the Ministry of Home Affairs for an update on what action has been taken on the Shunglu report on CWG. The Shunglu Committe report has indicted Delhi CM Sheila Dikhsit, Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna and CWG OC chief Suresh Kalmadi for irregularities in certain Commonwealth Games 2010 projects.

The Supreme Court will on Monday pass an order on the appointment of a special public prosecutor for holding the trial of former Telecom Minister A Raja and other accused in the 2G spectrum case.

The appointment of senior advocate UU Lalita as thespecial public prosecutor is expected today.

Here's why Delhi is justifiably India's rape capital.

An 18-year-old woman was allegedly raped twice on Saturday --first by her brother's father-in-law and then by a taxi driver and two others whom she approached for help.

The incident was reported from Vasant Kunj, South Delhi. All four accused have been arrested, police said.

The victim had reportedly gone to her brother's father-in-law's house in Rangpuri, South Delhi, after he called her to say that his wife had won a competition and she wanted someone to accompany her to collect the gift from the store.

Morning and hope it's a good morning. India's new Gandhi, Anna Hazare has begun what the country hope will be the beginnings of an anti-graft revolution.

Here'sthe latest on Hazare and the rest of the headlines thismorning.

Pass Lokpal Bill by August 15 or face agitation, says Anna Hazare (DNA)
He dismissed criticism that he had resorted to "blackmail", saying he would continue to do so in public interest.Read

Hazare vote for Narendra Modi, Nitish; doubts people's poll judgement (Indian Express)
Hazare singled out two CMs of states ruled by parties other than Congress as worthy of emulation. Read

WikiLeaks cables "inspired" anti-corruption campaign in India (The Hindu)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said the "tremendous" anti-corruption movement "building up" in India is a result of the publication of "cablegate" revelations by "The Hindu" in recent weeks. Read

EC notice to MK Stalin for remarks against Jayalalithaa (DNA)
AIADMK had on April 8 had filed a complaint with the EC against Stalin who had allegedly made some remarks about the marital status of Jayalalithaa. Read

Polling begins for final phase of Assam polls (The Hindu)
Over 40,000 police and paramilitary troopers have been deployed at various places, with authorities not taking any chance despite a general lull on the insurgency front. Read

Activist Binayak Sen could've been let off with just a fine (The Times of India)
The sedition provision is so arbitrary that he could have been let off for the same offence with just a fine. SC is to hear his bail plea today. Read

Mubarak says he's victim of defamation (Hindustan Times)

Former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak said that he was a victim of defamation and threatened lawsuits in his first comments since he was ousted in a popular uprising, aired Sunday on Al-Arabiya television. Read

France bans the burqa from today (Hindustan Times)
France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim population, on Monday officially banned women from wearing full-face veils in public places. Read