Good morning. The headlines this morning...

Cops zero in on Amar Singh in cash-for-vote probe (The Times of India)

The home ministry on Wednesday told Delhi Police that it was free to question Amar Singh and BJP MP Ashok Argal in connection with the cash-for-vote scam. Read

Illegal mining: Lokayukta report indicts Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa (The Times of India)
BSY faces charge for land sale of companies owned by his kin to a mining company by over 20 times the market value and favouring Reddy brother. Read

2G scam: Arguments on framing of charges today (Hindustan Times)

Delhi court will today start the arguments on framing of charges against former telecom minister A Raja and former telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura in 2G spectrum allocation scam. Read

Narayana Murthy backs making bribe-giving legal (Hindustan Times)

N R Narayana Murthy, chairman emeritus at Infosys, a pioneer of outsourcing industry and leader of one of country's biggest IT firms has argued that legalising paying bribes would help reduce endemic corruption in the South Asian country. Read

We will become human bombs to keep Andhra united: TDP MLA (DNA)
A Telangana legislator retaliated with a call to kill those opposing the creation of a separate state. Read

Mumbai blasts: Sleuths struggle to zero in on perpetrators (DNA)
Though the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad and the Mumbai Crime Branch officials have been claiming that they have got vital leads and are working on them to identify the terror outfit involved, but the outfits signature is yet not clear. Read

U.S. looking at creative ideas to break impasse in Sri Lanka (The Hindu)
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed the hope that the U.S. move would enable the Sri Lankan Tamils to return to their original places of dwelling. Read

ISI paid millions to influence U.S. on Kashmir (The Hindu)

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence secretly pumped millions of dollars into a United States-based non-governmental organisation to influence politicians and opinion-makers on the Kashmir issue, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said. Read

Al Qaida plans cartoon recruiting film for kids (Hindustan Times)

An al Qaida affiliate says it plans to roll out what some have called a Disney-like animated cartoon aimed at recruiting children to the terror network. Read