As we wind up Live! news for the day, here are the top news stories today.

1. Indian Hotelier, wife, kids missing in Japan
2. Delhi boys murder friend for squealing
3. Real estate, telecom most corrupt: survey
4. Suicide attack kills 33 in Afghan army centre
5. CBI questions Kalaignar TV MD once again
6. US pulls ships, aircraft from Japan N-plant
7. Hot male Sabeer Bhatia joins up with TMC
8. Dalai Lama quits
9. SC: ND Tiwari has to undergo paternity test
10. Navy intercepts, arrests 61 Somali pirates
11. 11 injured in second blast at Japan N-plant
12. Indian raped, killed in Aus; suspect arrested

And a funny from Sidin Vadukut:
Did you know that a room full of men in lungis automatically becomes a no-fly zone?

About 60 per cent of taxis and rickshaws are reported to have gone off the roads in Mumbai today after the CNG gas supply through a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline in suburban Chembur was disrupted.

AL Quadros, who heads the Taximen Union, confirmed the development to rediff.com. According to Quadros, the pipeline may take at least 24 hours to be repaired.

If the gas supply is not resumed soon enough, almost the entire taxi and auto fleet in the city may go off the roads, he added.

Just in: Indian family from Karnal, Haryana, goes missing in Iwaki province in Japan.Three-star hotel owner Narendra Kumar,his wife and three kids are missing, while the Japanese embassy says it has noinformation about them.

This comes in the wake of the MEA statement that all the 25,000 Indians in Japan were safe in the aftermath of Friday's earthquake and tsunami.

Your enemy's enemy is your friend and so it was with Amar Singh.

Coming out in support of Baba Ramdev, Lok Manch founder Amar Singh today said the yoga guru had every right to enter politics.

The expelled Samajwadi Party leader said the recent attack on Ramdev by some political parties over his campaign against corruption was unnecessary. He said his proposed political outfit would align with any other party which is not against the creation of a Poorvanchal state.

A story of hope for the thousands whose loved ones have gone missing since the twin disasters struck Japan on Friday.

A father searches for his daughter amid Sendai's devastation

Nine school students in New Delhi planned the murder of their teenaged friend after one of them was enraged at the victim informing his father that he had not returned Rs 2,500 which he borrowed.

They allegedly murdered 15-year-old Yash, a Class X student of Cambridge School in Sriniwaspuri, on Saturday evening while he was on way to his friend's place for 'combined study' for the upcoming CBSE examinations.

The incident took place some 100 metres away from the house of Yash, whose father Manmohan Gupta owns an embroidery shop in Sadar Bazar.

Royal gossip, and now a book.

Previously undiscovered diaries have been found by an author based in the UK which show the intense relationship between Queen Victoria and the Indian man employed to be her teacher.

The diaries have been used by London-based author Shrabani Basu to update her book Victoria and Abdul - which tells the story of the queen's close relationship with a tall and handsome Indian Muslim called Abdul Karim.

So did they or didn't they? Read

With Japan facing the prospect of a nuclear catastrophe, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said an immediate technical review of India's atomic plants has been ordered to check if they can withstand the impact of large natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes.

The PM said Indian nuclear plants have in the past met the safety standards during the major natural calamities like January 26, 2002 Gujarat earthquake and the December 2004 tsunami.

Latino men are macho and possessive, Asians are rubbish between the sheets. That's the verdict by Former Wall Street analyst JC Davies who has examined the myths about inter-racial lovers in her new book I Got The Fever: Love, What''s Race Gotta Do With It? which is based on hundreds of interviews and her own dating experiences.

The New York writer claims to be able to reveal the politically incorrect answers to a number of bedroom secrets. These include: Do Asian men like women submissive? Are all Indian men well versed in the Karma Sutra? Do Latin lovers live up to their reputation? Are black men well endowed? Are Jewish men really cheap?

Telecommmunications, under limelight in recent months due to the 2G scam, has been voted as the second most corruption-prone sector in India after real estate and construction, according to a survey by KPMG.

As per the final results, 32 per cent of the respondents named real estate and construction sector as most prone to corruption. In second place came telecommunications, at 17 per cent, financial services at 13 per centand defence with 9 per cent.

Addressing Parliament today, PM Manmohan Singh said, India will spare no effort in assisting Japan in its hourof tragedy and a naval ship was on standby to help in relief and rehabilitation. The PM said India was ready to send search and rescue teams and relief material to Japan and 25,000 blankets had already been airlifted.

He assured Parliament that the Department of Atomic Energy had been instructed to undertake an immediate technical review to check the safety systems of nuclear plants.

Just in: CBI questions Sharad Kumar, MD of Kaliagnar TV again in connection with the 2G scam. He was questioned on Friday in addition to DMK MP Kanimozhi and Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Amman.

On Friday, the CBI questioned Kanimozhi (daughter of Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi) in connection with investigations into the 2G spectrum scam. Kanimozhi's interrogation took place in Chennai at the DMK headquarters.

What the CBI is likely to ask her is the cash trail of Rs 206 crore from Shahid Balwa's DB Realty to Kalaignar TV which has Kanimozhi on its board with a 20% stake. Sharad Kumar, managing director of Kalaignar TV, was summoned by the CBI on March 8 as well.

Swan Telecom which is owned by DB Realty was allegedly favoured by sacked telecom minister A Raja with a spectrum licence. Balwa has denied that funds from the company which found its way into Kalaignar TV was part of a quid pro quo.

FYI: Dayalu Ammal, Karunanidhi's wife, is Kanimozhi's stepmother; Alagiri and Stalin's mother.

If Pablo Bartholomew's photograph of the little boy buried in rubble became iconic for the Bhopal gas tragedy, here are some equally unforgettable images of Japan's double tragedy.

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The fallout of the two explosions at the nuclear power plant in Japan following Friday's earthquake and tsunami has begun with Singapore today saying it was testing food imported from Japan for radiation. Taiwan will also follow Singapore said ssamples would be taken for testing for radiation andfresh produce would have priority. Singapore routinely use air freight to fly in produce such as raw fish -- integral to sushi and sashimi -- to ensure its freshness and quality.

Two months ago when I wrote an opinion piece for Deccan Herald newspaper titled "Will Antony quit?', frankly, I was having a crack at a Delhi newspaper which featured an outrageous editorial just the previous day calling into question the Indian defence minister's credentials to hold his portfolio in the cabinet. My adrenaline flowed when I read that editorial, and I wrote...

To find out what MK Bhadrakumar wrote, read his blog

Horror story from the sun.co.uk.

An investigation by the British tabloid reveals that clothing giant Matalan is selling padded bras for girls aged eight. The probe also found sexually provocative T-shirts for kids as young as three - and hotpants aimed at four-year-olds. Slogans on kids' T-shirts at Matalan include "Don't even think about it". Padded bras starting at size 28AA are dubbed "pocket money bras" because of the £4.50 price tag.

Want to marry a prince? Here's what Kate Middleton does.

With only weeks to go before the big day, most brides subject themselves to strict pre-wedding diet to ensure they look their best - but not Kate Middleton. The bride-to-be regularly visits her local shop to buy Haribo Starmix and Tangfastics sweets, eating her way through two large packets a week.

A three-year-old is said to have become the youngest child in Britain to undergo treatment for alcoholism. In fact, the unnamed child was treated in a hospital after being given alcohol regularly for six months.

External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today said he had spoken to the Indian ambassador in Japan and all 25,000 Indians there, most of them in and around Tokyo... are all safe. He said the embassy will "do whatever is possible" to help the Indians and a helpline has been set up there and "they are free to contact the Indian embassy for assistance."

Asked about the Indians stranded in the affected areas, Krishna said, "All of them have established communication with our embassy. And all of them are safe."

With the World War II nuclear bombing suffering weighing heavily on the national psyche, US and Japanese nuclear experts say that radioactive releases of steam from the crippled plants could go on for weeks or even months.

So far, Japanese officials have said the melting of the nuclear cores in the two plants is assumed to be "partial", and the amount of radioactivity measured outside the plants, though twice the level Japan considers safe, has been relatively modest.

The US Seventh Fleet said today it had moved its ships and aircraft away from the quake-stricken Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima Dai-Ichi discovering low-level radioactive contamination.

The fleet said that the radiation was from a plume of smoke and steam released from the crippled Nuclear plant where there has been a second hydrogen explosion today.

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was about 160 kilometers offshore when its instruments detected the radiation.

The fleet said the dose of radiation was about the same as one month's normal exposure to natural background radiation in the environment.

Alec Baldwin has some advice for troubled star Charlie Sheen. The '30 Rock' star wants Sheen to get his 'Two And A Half Men' job back.

Sheen, who is going through a public meltdown, was fired from the hit sitcom after he ranted against the show bosses publicly.

"Take a nap. Get a shower ... And then beg for your job back. Your fans demand it," Baldwin told Sheen.

Trinamool Congress has roped in IT wizard and co-founder of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, to help the party campaign better in the cyber world for the upcoming West Bengal assembly polls.

"Leaders can communicate with people through Internet and the more an organisation becomes cyber savvy, the more it can reach out to people," Bhatia said.

Bhatia will help a 12-member Trinamool cyber team, which includes two IIM students. Bhatia will help a 12-member Trinamool cyber team, which includes two IIM students. He was asked to guide the party's cyber team by Derek O'Brien who is in charge of the Trinamool Congress' website.

Former hottie Mel Gibson is reportedly considering filing a civil lawsuit against ex Oksana Grigorieva if she dares to sue him over a battery case.

Oksana is planning to file a civil lawsuit against Gibson, alleging battery, emotional distress and defamation, but the actor is planning to counter sue her for trying to extort money out of him if she goes ahead with her legal case.

See the google image on Alam Ara -- it's the 80th anniversary of India's first talkie.

Turning down requests by his followers to continue, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today formally conveyed to the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile his decision to devolve "political authority" to pave the way for putting in place a new democratic system to pursue the cause of Tibet.

In his message in Tibetan language read out by Penpa Tsering, Speaker of the Assembly of the Tibetan Peoples Deputies on the opening day of the budget session, the Dalai Lama said, "I wish to devolve authority solely for the benefit of the Tibetan people in the long run."

China has developed a new stealth fighter, called the J-20, from parts of an American F-117 Nighthawk stealth bomber that had been shot down over Serbia during the Kosovo War.

Theories have rapidly emerged about espionage and how China had somehow managed to steal and copy other countries' secret technologies.

One of the more extraordinary claims was that it had gained invaluable information from parts of an American F-117 Nighthawk stealth bomber that was shot down over Serbia.

US State Department spokesman P J Crowley has resigned, days after causing a stir by criticising the Pentagon's treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks as "ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid."

"Given the impact of my remarks, for which I take full responsibility, I have submitted my resignation as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Spokesman for the Department of State," Crowley said in his resignation statement yesterday.

Some relief among the terrible terrible tragedy of Japan.

Radiation levels at the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, which has been hit by a second explosion, are "normal", the UN atomic watchdog IAEA said today.

An explosion shook the Fukushima nuclear power plant today, injuring six people, but officials said the reactor container was not breached and there was no major rise in radiation.

The blast was caused by a build-up of hydrogen in the building around the No 3 reactor at the Fukushima Number One plant.

It was a fishing town that for years had lived off the sea - and was killed by it in an instant. The pretty port of Minami Sanriku had stood timelessly beside the coast for generation upon generation. But suddenly it was gone, first engulfed and then obliterated by the irresistible torrent of water that swept away boats, cars, trucks, buildings, entire streets - and around 10,000 of its people.

The destruction wrought by the tsunami was so wholesale that stunned observers compared it to the aftermath of the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima, reports sun.co.uk.

Click on this link for stunning pictures

Lots happening in world news today.

The Lahore High Court has ruled that the trial court will decide the immunity status case of CIA contractor Raymond Davis.The ruling came after the Foreign Ministry submitted its reply to the court on the Davis immunity issue on Monday. The ministry stated that US national Davis was visiting Pakistan on an official business visa. Davis is under police detention for shooting dead two Pakistani men on January 27 in Lahore, allegedly in self-defence.

Japanese troops have rescued a 60-year-old man, who floated 15 kilometers out to sea on the roof of his home after a tsunami engulfed the country's northeastern coast on Friday.

Hiromitsu Shinkawa was pushed out to sea while he clung to the roof of his home after a tsunami swept away his wife.

For two days, he tried to get the attention of helicopters and ships that passed by, but without success.

Finally, on Sunday, a Japanese military vessel spotted the 60-year-old waving a red cloth 15 kilometers offshore from the earthquake-ravaged city of Minamisoma.Japanese troops used a small boat to pluck him from the ocean.

It's time ND Tiwari accepted the inevitable.

The Supreme Court today has refused to stay the Delhi High Court order asking veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari to undergo DNA test in a paternity case. The SC said findings with regard toTiwari's DNA test would not be made public, but kept in a sealed envelope. The modality of the DNA test will be confirmed on Friday.

Challenging the High Court order, Tiwari had pleaded before the apex court for immediate stay on the ruling as the process of the DNA test has already been set in motion by the court in the threeyear-old paternity suit filed by a 31-year-old man claiming to be his biological son.

In a major operation, the Indian Navy intercepted a pirate mother ship, rescuing 13 crew members, and arrested 61 Somali sea brigands about 600 nautical miles off the western coast.

Vega 5 was intercepted by a fast attack craft, INS Kalpeni. 61 pirates were apprehended and 13 crew members rescued. The pirates and their ship were being brought to Mumbai.

Rescuers began a fourth day picking through the rubble of earthquake-and tsunami-ravaged northern Japan, searching for survivors, as the country's prime minister called on people to pull together and face sacrifices after Friday's historic disaster.

"In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan," Prime Minister Naoto Kan told reporters at a televised news conference Sunday, reports cnn.com.

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Obvious conclusion, this, but here's what you should know.

Pakistan has turned down an Indian request to allow an inquiry commission to interrogate Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other Pakistanis arrested in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

"There is no law under which we could allow the Indian investigators to grill the seven accused, who are already in judicial custody,' the Dawn quoted a senior Interior Ministry official, as saying.

In the first week of March, India had sent a letter expressing its willingness to allow a commission set up by a Pakistani court to visit India to record witnesses in India, and also sought permission from Islamabad to allow an Indian team to visit the country to interrogate the seven suspects.

India's PR machinery will of course accept this without murmur, unlike Pakistan, which if the situation had been reversed, would have gone to town on how Pakistan was always willing to come to the table, but not India.

Spelling the word 'Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia' could stump many, but not 25-year-old Guinness Book record holder Shishir Hathwar, who can not only do it without batting an eyelid but in the reverse order as well.

It is not just this word (which means fear of long words) he can rattle off, but a number of others including 'grotesqueness'.

Bangalore based Hatwar, an Electronics Engineer in BHEL, clinched the world record this week for the "fastest backwards spelling of 50 words" in one minute 22.53 seconds, beating the record of Job Pottas from Kerala who clocked one minute 40.14 seconds in March 2010.

The earlier record was held by Deborah Prebble from UK (two min 21 seconds).

Shishir won by a comfortable margin of over 17 seconds when he spelt 50 randomly chosen words, including 20 six letter word, 15-seven letter words and 15-eight letter words.

This almost sounds like an All Fools Day joke, but it's not.

Al-Qaeda has launched a magazine for women that not only offers beauty and fashion tips but also gives advice on suicide bombings.

The cover of the glossy, called Jihad Cosmo, features the barrel of a sub-machine gun next to a picture of a woman in a veil.

There are exclusive interviews with martyrs' wives, who praise their husbands' decisions to die in suicide attacks.

The slick, 31-page Al-Shamikha magazine - meaning The Majestic Woman - has advice for singletons on ''marrying a mujahideen''.

Readers are told it is their duty to raise children to be mujahideen ready for jihad.

And the beauty column instructs women to stay indoors with their faces covered to keep a ''clear complexion''.

And the inane-tweet brigade strikes.

This one from Shekhar Kapur.

Second explosion in Japan's nuclear reactor make you rethink use of nuclear power ? Radiation leaks cld spread beyond Japan.

A Kyodo news agency report said 1000 dead bodies were found washed up on the shores of Ojika Peninsula in Miyagi, while another 1000 were found in the town of Minamisanriku.

It quoted authorities in Minamisanriku as saying that they have been unable to contact 10,000 people more than half of the population living there.

Millions of survivors without food, water and electricity.

And worse, the Japan meteorological survey says more earthquakes expected.

A large wave was spotted off Japan's coast today by a helicopter, but the meteorological agency said it had detected no sign of a new tsunami or a major quake that would have triggered it.

Authorities had issued evacuation orders in some parts of the devastated coastline after the initial report and as seawater was seen retreating off Iwate and Aomori prefectures -- a phenomenon that occurs before tsunamis.

Asecond explosion has hit the nuclear plant in Japan that was damaged in Friday's earthquake, but officials said it had resisted the blast.

A report by bbc.co.uk says smoke was seen rising from Fukushima plant's reactor 3, a day after an explosion hit reactor 1.

Japan's nuclear safety agency said the blast was believed to have been caused by the build-up of hydrogen.

Government officials said the reactor core was still intact as they tried allay fears of a radioactive leak.

Details of the murder of the Indian girl in Sydney.

A 24-year-old Indian student has been found raped and murdered after her body was located stuffed inside a suitcase near a canal in Sydney last week. On 11 March morning, construction workers found the suitcase containing the woman's body in a water canal near Meadowbank Park and alerted police.

The victim was identified as Indian student Tosha Thakkar and police were now waiting for the results of a post-mortem examination to determine exactly how she died. She was last seen alive on March 9.

Thakkar was studying accounting at the Sydney College of Business and IT, which collaborates with Southern Cross University, and was a permanent resident of Australia.

Police has arrested 19-year-old Daniel Stani-Reginald in connection with the murder and the accused was questioned by detectives and charged with murder and aggravated sexual assault.

Good morning.

First, this is what you can expect will happen today.

-- The Dalai Lama will formally resign today as the head of the Tibetan government in exile.

-- The Supreme Courtwill hear ND Tiwari's paternity case

-- Pranab Mukherjee to meet Mamata over seat sharing in the upcoming West Bengal polls.

Breaking news: Daniel Stani-Reginald has been arrested in rape and murder of a 24-year-old girl. Tosha Thakkar's body was found stuffed in a suitcase near the Sydney canal.