Two days after journalist J Dey's murder, leads still remain few. The police have just released a sketch of one of the four accused who shot Dey, while the CM in a meeting with journalists this afternoon, said the oil mafia was probably behind the murder. We will be following this story till it reaches its obvious end -- the conspiracy revealed and the people behind it.

The other big stories today...

Cops release sketch of man who shot J Dey

Democracy's biggest threat is from unelected: Cong

Govt defaming Lokpal movement: Hazare

2 days after kidnap, scientist's son killed

Anna Hazare team writes to PM

CM: Oil mafia behind J Dey's murder

Journos ask CM for CBI probe in J Dey death

Suicide bomber kills four in Iraq

Guwahati archbishop nominated for Peace Nobel

BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad to meet Jaya today

Kanimozhi to stay in jail till June 20

Two quakes rock New Zealand, no casualties

NDTV.comhas justput upa picture of a man believed to be one of the four accused who killed journalist J Dey. The sketch was released by the Mumbai police a while ago. The sketch is based on eyewitness accounts.

Dey, who headed the investigations team with Mid Day was shot dead on Saturday in broad daylight.

The incident occurred at Powai, a suburb of Mumbai.

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Are you among the 40 per cent?

According to a survey carried out by online travel company Expedia, the tendency to overpack cost 40 per cent Indians on an average Rs 7,500 as excess baggage fee per trip while flying abroad.
The survey conducted during January and March this year polled 500 travellers who booked air travel online, said 60 per cent of the respondents had not even used all the items that they carried with them.
Interestingly, to avoid paying for excess baggage, some of the respondents admitted wearing extra clothes, including up to three jackets, stuffing small things in pockets and befriending fellow passengers travelling with less baggage, to help accommodate their stuff.

Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare today accused the office bearers of Congress and union ministers of intentionally "defaming" the Lokpal movement and the emerging NGO sector in the country.
"They (the government) are making lot many allegations, including the so-called hidden support and political agenda designed by RSS and BJP. It's a sheer humiliation of the sentiments of the common Indians.

"They are trying to demoralise and confuse agitators fighting against corruption and this proves insensitivity of government," Hazare said.
Hazare also said that he had written a letter to Sonia Gandhi to draw her attention towards the "mudslinging" ahead of the next meeting of the Lokpal draft committee in Delhi.

News from the Posco agitation.

Caught in the complex web surrounding the proposed mega steel plant near Paradip, women and children say they have been finding it hard to live a normal life at Dhinkia, the centre of anti-POSCO agitation, in Jagatsinghpur district.
Elders are not able to move out to sell or supply their products in the nearby markets for fear of being caught by police while children including girls are keeping indoors for the same reason, locals said.
"We don't know whom police will implicate on what charge.They are keeping a strict vigil on our activities," Manorama Khatua, an anti-POSCO woman activist, said.

Tragic news coming in of the murder of a Pranav Chalavadi, the 11-year-old son of a DRDO scientist from Hyderabad. He was found bundled in a gunny bag in a drain in the city, two days after he went missing. His parents had lodged a missing person's complaint on Saturday.

Details soon.

Readthe tribute to journalist J Dey on cnnibn's blog Firstpost: The most dangerous place for intrepid journalists is home.

Meeting with journalists over.

CM Prithviraj Chavan says Mid Day journalist J Dey may have been killed by the oil mafia. He was apparently on the verge of a big expose on the oil mafia. The CM has also promised to table a bill to protect journalists.

However, he has turned down the fraternity's demand for a CBI probe immediately, but promised to hand over investigations if the police fail to close the case in two weeks.

Queen Elizabeth's former daughter-in-law Sarah Ferguson is 'continually on verge of bankruptcy' and is struggling to repay three personal friends and three different businesses that she owes money, she has admitted. Read the report in the Telegraph.

Mid Day Executive Editior Sachin Kalbag and a group of 14 journalists representing the Press Club, Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Mantralaya Ani Vidhimandal Vartahar Sangh, Mumbai Crime Reporters' Association and TV Journalists Association are in a meeting with CM Prithviraj Chavan now at Mantralaya.

The meeting began at 2.10 pm after over 500 journalistsmarched in silent protest over senior colleague J Dey'smurderon Saturday from the Press Club at Azad Maidan to Mantralaya.

Apart from ensuring security for journalists, the group also want a CBI probe into Dey's murder.

Death and devastation, a regular feature in Iraq, strikes again.

A suicide attacker blew up a car bomb in front of a police station in Iraq's main southern city of Basra today, killing four people, at least three of
them policemen.

If you're headed to Nepal anytime soon, give the Pashupatinath temple a miss -- unless you don't mind mice and cockroaches running over your feet.

The centuries old sacred Hindu temple Pashupatinath is facing an embarrassing problem a sudden rise in the population of mice and cockroaches which has threatened its main structures.
The mice menace is so serious that it has affected the daily prayers and scared the Bhandaris (storekeepers).In their 20-point complaint letter the Bhandaris have said the temple may collapse any time if it is not renovated immediately.

There are thousands of mice and cockroaches running inside the temple and the pillars of the temple covered with gold plate and copper have become hollow from inside, which may collapse any time.

Meanwhile, trouble ahead for Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran.

Mimicking the BJP's statement last week, CPI General Secretary A B Bardhansaid it was "untenable", for Maran to continue and demanded that the Prime Minister should ensure Maran quit.

"Maran's continuance in the Union Cabinet is no longer justified. He must resign. The Prime Minister should see to it that the Minister, facing fresh allegations in the 2G spectrum scandal, goes. Hope the Prime Minister will take action and
not wait till it is too late," Bardhan said in Hyderabad today where the CPI-M is meeting after the poll debacle.

News from the rally in Mumbai to protest the murder of journalist J Dey:

At least 500 journalists are waiting for Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan outside Mantralaya. The silent rally began at the Mumbai Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh near Azad Maidan and wound its way to Mantralaya via Fountain.

The Press Club has demanded the resignation of state home minister RR Patil and Mumbai Police chief Arup Patnaik.

On Sunday, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan convened a high-level meeting to review investigations into the case.

Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in US conduct of
the Vietnam War, the report is coming out in its entirety, today.

The 7,000-page report was the WikiLeaks disclosure of its time, a sensational breach of government confidentiality that shook Richard Nixon's presidency and prompted a Supreme Court fight that advanced press freedom.

Prepared near the end of Lyndon Johnson's term by Defence Department and private foreign policy analysts, the report was leaked primarily by one of them, Daniel Ellsberg, in a brash act of defiance that stands as one of the most dramatic episodes of whistleblowing in US history.

Today the National Archives and presidential libraries are releasing the report in full, long after most of its secrets had spilled.

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Abhijit MajumderRT@lindsaypereira: 27 journalists killed in India over past 19 years. Mr De was the 28th. He rarely smiled at any of my jokes. I miss him.

All of us who were lucky enough to work with Mr Dey will miss him in so many different ways. Didn't realise how much, till he's gone.

If you find the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William's wife Kate, beautiful,here's her beauty secret.

Kate uses a face cream that costs 5.10 pounds to up her beauty quotient, it was revealed. She was spotted buying the 'Nivea Visage Pure and Natural Moisturising Day Cream', which is now expected to fly off from shop shelves, as fans clamour to recreate the young royal's look.

"Kate looked like an ordinary shopper as she went up to the counter to buy her cream. She was friendly and chatty as she paid her £5.10. It was only when I took a second glance that I realised who she was,' the Telegraph quoted a shopper as saying.

OK, our Delhi correspondent who will be giving us updates on TN CM J Jayalalitha's visit to the capital.

Jayalalitha may visit the Nirvachan Sadan (Election Commission) to thank the EC for the smooth conduct of the polls. (That's what Mayawati did after her poll win.

DMK MPs and six ministers in Delhi will be part of the welcoming committee to when Jaya hits Delhi at 3.15 pm today.

BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad will meet Jaya at 5 pm today.

On Mid Day, final goodbye to journalist J Dey

If you're near CST, do join the protest march over the killing of Mid Day senior journalist J Dey. Journalists demand better security and answers to why Dey was gunned down.

The Supreme Court has adjourned DMK MP Kanimozhi''s bail plea till June 20 in the 2G Spectrum scam case.

Bench also issued notice to the CBI asking it to file its response on the bail plea of Kanimozhi by next Monday.

The apex court asked CBI to inform it as to what happened to Rs 200 crore allegedly given to Kalaignar TV by Cineyug Films and also asked the probe agency to state the loss incurred by exchequer in granting licences to telecom companies during A Raja's tenure.

Our Delhi correspondent says that Chief Minister Jayalalitha will host an evening soiree today for 30 top civil servatns ofthe Tamil Nadu cadre -- bothIAS and IPS -- atthe Tamil Nadu house at 6 pm inDelhi.

Out of the 30 people invited, 10 are in the senior most positions as Secretaries to Government of India.

Incidentally, the Chief Minister heads the cadre. The reason for the meeting ostensibly is that many officers had not interacted with her in past five years.

While the resident commissioner of Tamil Nadu house, whois organising this event, says this is aroutine in administrative exercises,many IPS officerswho had not interactedwith her are interested in listening to her views.

Dr Subramanian Swamy, a petitioner in the 2G scam, has revealed that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are in Zug, Switzerland, even as it was revealed that Baba Ramdev had ended his fast against black money, yesterday.

Shall we join the dots?

First up, a pair of earthquakes struck within 90 minutes of each near Christchurch, New Zealand, today, the US Geological Survey reported, reviving vivid memories of a deadly quake that killed more than 180 people in February, reports cnn.com.

There was some damage caused by the quake and a few injuries that were not life-threatening. Police evacuated sections of the city's central business district after reports of a possible gas leak, police said. Several bridges in the city was closed as a precaution.

Good morning to the beginning of another week.

Big day for DMK MP and Karunanidhi's daughter, Kanimozhi, who has spent over three weeks in Tihar jail.

Today is when the Supreme Court decides on her bail plea -- will she stay in jail or get out. Ditto for Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar.

Two days after senior journalist J Dey's murder, the police still have no clues on who shot him dead. Stay with us through the day for updates and all the news as it happens.

PM must come under Lokpal ambit, says Digvijay Singh (The Times of India)

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday created a flutter by endorsing civil society's demand to bring the prime minister and the higher judiciary under the ambit of Lokpal, taking the government and his party colleagues by surprise. Read

Anna, Ramdev trying to dictate terms to Centre, says Pranab (The Hindu)
The RSS, he said, came out in support of the movement to wriggle out of the sticky situation it found itself in, after it turned out that it was responsible for several extremist activities. Read

Parliament supreme, no one can dictate: Pranab (Indian Express)
The government abandoned the last pretence of its uncomfortable peace with Anna Hazare's activists on the Lokpal Bill this evening and laid down tough new rules of engagement. Pranab Mukherjee, chairman of the joint drafting committee for the Bill, decried the shrill agitation by Team Anna as an attack on the Constitution, and accused Hazare of subverting democracy. Read

Family, friends bid a tearful adieu to Jyotirmoy Dey (The Hindu)

The mother wailed inconsolably as the sister caressed her dead brother. "You got us fame and good status. But we wanted only you. Why have you left us like this?" Leela, sister of senior crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey, lamented during the funeral here on Sunday morning. Read

Documents, phone records hold key to scribe's murder (Hindustan Times)

A day after veteran crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey was shot dead by four men on motorcycles in Powai, the police investigation appears to be centred around a set of documents found in his bag. Read

Will Kanimozhi get bail? SC to decide today (Hindustan Times)
The Supreme Court will today hear the bail pleas of DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar, accused in the 2G spectrum case. Kanimozhi, the 43-year-old daughter of DMK chief M Karunanidhi, and Kumar have challenged the Delhi High Court verdict rejecting their bail pleas. Read