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And some more... The Mouse TrapMagnificent VisionsThe murder of Tayshana Murphy...and the Ghost Hedgehog Have a great weekend.
18:53
Once Upon a Time in Mogadishu: A peek into the pleasant colonial past of the world's most dangerous city. Burning for the Cause: From Tunisia to Tibet, self-immolation is now -- tragically -- back in vogue as a dramatic means of protest. But does it really work? The Sisters of the...
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More updates from the Saarc summit. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said today that outside forces had no excuse to get involved in a complex dispute over the South China Sea, offering a veiled warning to the United States and others not to stick their noses into the sensitive issue.Read the...
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Another report on the Daily Mail on the Natalie Woods inquest. Was it an accident? Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning death re-opened as homicide investigators receive 'additional information'. Read more
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It was a telling moment at the height of the Occupy Wall Street protests. John Paulson, the hedge-fund trader who famously made billions betting on the collapse of the housing market, was threatened by the demonstrators with a march on his Upper East Side home in New York last month. Paulson...
18:16
A Taliban-affiliated website has released video that purports to show suicide bombers who targeted Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel in June preparing for the attack in the hills and studying a tiny model of the hotel in detail. On cnn.com
18:11
Former Telecom Minister Sukhram has been held guilty by a Delhi court of misusing his official position when he was in the P V Narasimha Rao cabinet and giving undue favour to a cable supply company in a 15-year-old case.Special CBI Judge R P Pandey convicted 84-year-old Sukhram under various...
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Tensions between the United States and China spilled over into meetings of Asia-Pacific leaders on Friday as the two countries jostled over how to handle competing claims to the South China Sea. Read the reuters report.
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On the Independent, UK: The Arab Spring has given Turkey a voice. Don't mess with it. Turkey is angry over the Syrian failure to apologise for an attack on the Turkish embassy. Read Robert Fisk's opinion piece
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The Special Investigation Team, probing the encounter deaths of Mumbai teenager Ishrat Jahan and three others, today submitted its final report in theGujarat High Court. On October 7, a division bench of justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari had directed the SIT to submit the final...
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Also on the bbc.co.uk: If there was any lingering doubt about whether or not there is a process of change under way in Burma, this past week will surely have dispelled it. Read
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See: The photo essay on Mumbai's rat killers on Reuters.
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If you've just joined us, police in the US have reopened an inquiry into the death of film star Natalie Wood, who drowned in 1981. Los Angeles police said they had received new information relating to the case, but have not given details. Wood was found dead during a boat trip off the coast of...
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Why should Pakistan's smart, hard-working ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani have to resign for doing his job? more on Foreign Policy magazine. Read
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More on that South China Sea dispute. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today told his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao that India's oil exploration in the disputed maritime area is purely commercial activity even as the two sides agreed that there was enough space and areas for them to work...
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China has warned external forces not to get involved in its maritime disputes with neighbouring countries over the South China Sea. In comments apparently directed at the US, Premier Wen Jiabao said that the disputes should be resolved by relevant sovereign states. Mr Wen spoke at a regional...
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Press Council Chairman Justice Markandey Katju, who faced a walk out by four publisher members from its meeting yesterday, has maintained that his controversial remarks were not not directed against the entire media, butonly about a majority.The Council, in a statement, late last night said the...
17:33
Pritish Nandy tweets: I agree with Azhar. Kambli's claims seem far fetched. In any case, he has lost credibility by coming out so late.
17:32
Hstorian Ramachandra Guha has stirred up a controversy with his suggestion of a late 1940s collusion between the Left and Muslim communalists in Hyderabad, but the facts don't justify his claim. Read the full story on Open magazine.
17:30
Chinese leaders know that, with Europe and the US struggling, they can't rely on exports forever. China's future may hinge on whether its leaders can make the necessary changes in time. Read the report on the Atlantic
17:28
Meanwhile, a court in Sri Lanka has jailed former army chief Sarath Fonseka for three years for implicating the government in war crimes. The court ruled that he lent credence to allegations the defence secretary ordered Tamil Tigers to be killed as they tried to surrender in May 2009....
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Thousands of Egyptians are demonstrating in Cairo's Tahrir Square, upset over what they say is an attempt by the country's military to reinforce its powers. Friday's rally was called by the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most organized political group, in reaction to a government proposal to...
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Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, has said he is not seeking political asylum in America, but instead would be traveling to Pakistan to share whatever information he had about an alleged letter that has strained relations between the country's civilian and military...
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Quick takes:Scientists have developed what they claim is the world's lightest material -- a metal with a density of 0.9 mg/cc. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will arrive here tomorrow for an official visit to Singapore to deepen bilateral ties with the city state. The Tokyo Sky Tree, a...
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Also read: Elevate human rights as the core organising principle in counter insurgency. It's on the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses website.
16:29
Jairam Ramesh became India's new Minister for Rural Development in July, after a tumultuous stint as the Minister of Environment and Forests. Ramesh spoke to NYT's India Ink about his plans to counter the Naxalites, what Gandhi would have thought of the village today, and how he hopes to make the...
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Wadekar added that even though he and Sandeep Patil were of the opinion that the wicket would turn, the team still decided to field keeping in mind the chasing prowess of the Sri Lankans.Former cricketers Arun Lal and Atul Wassan also criticised Kambli for raking up the issue after nearly 15...
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After Azharuddin, the then manager of the Indian team and formercaptain, Ajit Wadekar said he doubted the timing of Kambli's statement.My question is, if he knew everything, why did he wait for 15 years, Wadekar said. Kambli had yesterday claimed that Wadekar knew everything about the...
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This was definitely a week of shock and awe. And one which gave me much reason to be so proud to be part of a permissive and progressive India. The troika of newsmakers -- Mallya, Manu Sharma and Mummy Bachchan bamboozled the moral, financial and judicial fibre of the country and the media. More...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today ruled out any possibility of a change in government through unconstitutional and undemocratic means as apolitical storm raged in Pakistan over a secret memorandum in which the country's civilian leadership purportedly sought US assistance to stave...
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Rajdeep Sardesai tweets: Just hope cricket legends who played 96 semis: sachin,, srinath, kumble, speak up. When the good dont speak out, the bad are heard!Here's the context
15:51
Many speculate about the potential for an Israeli attack on Iran. Yet fears are unjustified: Israeli politicians know better than to destabilize the region with a preventive strike. Read the story on European Magazine.
15:50
On Der Spiegel: The discovery of a neo-Nazi terror cell in Germany has many concerned about the country's reputation. With good reason. Racism and xenophobia have deep roots in German society -- and the vocabulary used to describe the right-wing extremist crime spree is telling. Read
15:48
A commander of Libyan former rebels has warned that his men could overthrow the incoming government if it fails to meet their demands for representation. The credibility of the threat, made by Tripoli militia leader Abdullah Naker in a Reuters interview, was hard to assess in...
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In other stories: Do you dream of looking like your 30-year-old self when you hit 60? Well, the secrets to the fountain of youth may be bubbling up in a nearby lab -- and you have a roundworm to thank for it. Read the story on abcnews
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A special court today rejected the application of 2002 Gulburg society riot victims seeking stay on the trial till the special investigation team (SIT) submits its final report relevant to the case in the court.The SIT has already said that it would be submitting its final report in the...
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In a significant development, the Supreme Court today ruled that its earlier order banning Special Police Officers (SPOs) like those under Salwa Judumwould only apply to Chhattisgarh. A bench of justices Altamas Kabir and S S Nijjar said its July 5 judgement restraining the Union Government...
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Also on cricket: Jacques Kallis and Ricky Ponting are the same age, made their debut in the same year and are two of just four players to surpass 12,000 Test runs. They're both champions of cricket but, while the Australian fights to keep his position, Kallis is just getting better.Read the...
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Just in: Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, a key accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, has filed a new bail plea in the MCOCA court on grounds of parity. Her case comes up for hearing on December 5. Three other co-accused in the same case - Shivnarayan Kalsangra, Shyam Sahu and Ajay Rahirkar -...
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Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin on Friday, rubbished the claims made by his former teammate Vinod Kambli that the 1996 World Cup semi-final against Sri Lanka could have been 'fixed'. Azharuddin, who was the skipper at that time, said in an exclusive interview to CNN IBN that...
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In the early 1980s, when the electronic media in India was made up entirely of government mouthpieces, All India Radio and Doordarshan, and anodyne government propaganda masqueraded as news, Khushwant Singh, the jolly Sardar of journalism, used to famously jest about the state of the electronic...
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More Team Anna news. Anna aide Kiran Bedi today said the onus of getting the Lokpal bill passed in the Winter Session of Parliament lies with the Congress, failing which there will be nationwide 'Ramlila Maidan-like protests'. She said Team Anna has nothing against the Congress per se but...
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R Rajagopalan tweets: Parliament is filled with NSG black-cat commandoes, dogs,mock drill for Winter session. SPG drill of eight cars convoy-with 'dummy' PM in car.The winter session of Parliament begins on November 22.
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Read the interview with Amitabh Bachchan on The Film Street Journal
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Amitabh Bachchan tweets: The end of this season of KBC and the wishes that come through are as emotional as the show itself ... thank you ... will be back !
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In other news, Air Chief Marshal N A K Browne today said moves to strengthen infrastructure in the north-eastern region are not to counter the Chinese.He also said that the airfield in Arunachal Pradesh has been reactivated today but noted it was too short to operate fighter aircraft. Asked about...
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Update on baby B:Proud father Abhishek Bachchan can't wait to have his new born daughter and wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan home. It is a momentous occasion for the family and we are overwhelmed with all the love we have received from all ourfans, media and the industry. Both Aishwarya and the...
14:30
Neutrinos still faster than light in latest version of experiment. The finding that contradicts Einstein's theory of special relativity is repeated with fine-tuned procedures and equipment. Read the report on the Guardian.
14:24
Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz has said that Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani was the official who asked him to deliver a secret memorandum on behalf of President Asif Ali Zardari seeking help from the Obama administration to prevent a possible military...
14:14
Three persons have been detained in connection with the killing of nun Valsha John. The police is inquiring into the killing of 52-year-old Sister Valsha John at Pachwara village in Jharkhands Pakur district on Tuesday night.
14:13
Watch geese marching in a parade, cats getting creative and a US politician slipping up in. On the Guardian.
14:10
Heartbroken Demi Moore last night announced she is divorcing alleged love rat hubby Ashton Kutcher. Demi, 49, called time on her marriage to toyboy Ashton, 33, after blonde Sara Leal, 22, said she romped with the Two And A Half Men actor on their sixth wedding anniversary. The Sun.co.uk report...
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The last time the former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was in the news, it was for her alleged involvement in the phone hacking scandal. This time, Brooks is expecting a baby by a surrogate mother. Brooks, 43, and her ex-racehorse trainer husband Charlie are due to become...
13:59
An arrest warrant has been issued for the former Philippine president, Gloria Arroyo, amid a legal battle to decide whether the former president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is free to travel abroad. The country's supreme court ruled on Friday that Arroyo should...
13:58
Details on the SC quashing bail for Vishal Yadav, who along with his cousin Vikas, is serving life term for killing Nitish Katara in 2002. A bench of justices B S Chauhan and T S Thakur, however, asked the Delhi High Court to decide expeditiously the appeals filed by Vishal and his...
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US businessman Mansoor Ijaz who broke all hell in the world media by releasing the evidence of his secret Memo to Admiral Mike Mullen said on Friday Mullen insisted on having the ambassador's offers put in writing because the US government had been repeatedly deceived by Pakistan's verbal offers...
13:43
Here's some post-lunch dessert on the Daily Beast
13:40
Read senior journalist and political activist Kanchan Gupta's column for Mid Day: Meet Durgavati, mother of 52 children
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Team Anna's back in the news for the right reasons.Demanding that the CBI be brought under the purview of the Lokpal, Team Anna today said the role of the ombudsman will be reduced to a post office receiving and forwarding complaints if it does not have control over the anti-corruption wing of...
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Azhar also says Kambli is showing his class and it is very annonying that Kambli has made this statement. Kambli made this statement 15 years after he walked off the Eden Gardens in tears, when the 1996 World Cup semifinal against Sri Lanka was stopped due to crowd violence with India on the...
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In case you've missed this story... Former cricketer Vinod Kambli raised suspicion on the 1996 World Cup semi-final between India and Sri Lanka and said he found something amiss in the game, a claim which came in for sharp criticism from Sourav Ganguly. Read the story...
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Just in: The Supreme Court has dismissed the bail plea of Vishal Yadav,serving life sentence in Nitish Katara murder case.
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President Barack Obama said today he would send Hillary Clinton on the first trip to Myanmar by a US secretary of state for 50 years to see if Washington can empower a nascent reform process. Obama said in Indonesia that he made the decision after speaking directly for the first time with...
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US legislators have launched a probe into Chinese telecom firms amid growing concerns over cyber espionage. The US House intelligence committee said the investigation would look into whether the expansion of these firms in the US posed a security threat. Read the bbc report.
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Meanwhile, the suspendend IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has withdrawn his plea in the Anti-Narendra Modi police officer Sanjiv Bhatt has withdrawn a petition against the Gujarat government after the Supreme Court told him that it would not interfere with the state's decision not to support him in a...
12:56
American Jewish groups lobbying the Nixon White House on behalf of their Soviet brethren got under Henry Kissinger's skin in demanding intense pressure on Moscow to the point that he denounced them to a White House colleague as self-serving bastards, newly released documents indicate. Among...
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The Supreme Court today refused to quash proceedings against suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 21-year-old alleged custodial death case. A bench of justices B S Chauhan and T S Thakur refused to grant any relief to the Gujarat-cadre officer against the state high court's order, which...
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It's happening, again. A major US publication, The Atlantic, has claimed that a fast failing Pakistan, run by inept civilians and praetorian generals, is an Ally from Hell, suffers a completely dysfunctional relationship with Washington, and is an accident away from unleashing its nuclear...
12:30
After its day of action during which 250 people were arrested, the Occupy Wall Street movement seems to bedwindling in numbers. Just two months after the protests against corporate greed started, the 99 percent has been kicked out of its stomping (and sleeping) grounds in Lower Manhattan's...
12:24
Guess who else is in Bali apart from the leaders of 10 Asean countries and US President Barack Obama?It's socialite Paris Hilton.The 30-year-old hotel heiress took time out from her week-long vacation and happily played with children and mingled with staff of the orpahnage, reported Femalefirst...
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A retired senior diplomat and progressive strategic thinker concurs with Markandey Katju, Press Council of India chairman and recently retired judge of the Supreme Court of India, on 'how ill-equipped' our journalists [are] intellectually and otherwise to handle complex issues MK...
12:18
More on Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's secret memo.Zardari was so scared of a military coup after Osama bin Laden's death that he was ready to create a new security team favourable to Americans and promised the US to hand over Pak-based 26/11 perpetrators including those from its...
12:15
The Army conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of traveling five times the speed of sound. The Army launched the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon from the military's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai at about 1:30 am yesterday. The weapon's glide vehicle reached...
12:15
Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari has added his own stinging criticism of the Indian media, echoing the recent condemnation of the industry by Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju. Read the WSJ report
12:04
Here's the text of the infamous Mansoor Ijaz memo to Admiral Mike Mullen Pakistan's powerful army became enraged after a secret memo indicated President Asif Ali Zardari's government asked for US help to prevent a military coup following the Navy SEAL raid in May that killed Osama bin Laden.
11:57
People the world over salute the Occupy movement for standing up to injustice and fighting for equality at the heart of empire. Read the piece on the Guardian.
11:53
On cnn.com: President Barack Obama took part today in the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) economic summit and hailed an airplane sales deal between Boeing and an Indonesian airline. Obama was in Bali, Indonesia, for the ASEAN meeting in a region that accounts for more than half of...
11:48
On Firstpost.com: The Baby B hoopla unfolded on Wednesday much as expected: breathless media chatter, a twitter tsunami, and the usual complaints about our celeb-obsessed press. Tweets gushing over the Bachchan newborn were accompanied by a generous dollop of media-bashing. Read
11:46
Several thousand demonstrators have marched across New York's Brooklyn Bridge on a day of protest that saw solidarity rallies across the US. At least 300 people were arrested just in New York, many of them as trouble flared near the stock exchange. Occupy Wall Street activists started the day by...
11:38
In Italy, the technocrat government of Prime Minster Mario Monti is set to face a crucial confidence vote in the lower house of parliament. Mr Monti easily won a vote in the upper house - the Senate - on Thursday, widely regarded as his first test since becoming leader. Observers say his...
11:27
In a November 15 op-ed in The Age, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that she would push her Labor Party to overturn its ban on selling uranium to India when the party meets next month. The unexpected announcement is a testament to the growing importance that...
11:19
Recalling Wen's visit to India in December last year, Singh said it was a milestone in the bilateral relations during which the two sides discussed new ideas and new approaches to the relationship.Referring to the oft-repeated contention that the 21st century should belong to Asia, the Chinese...
11:15
Also read the Telegraph, Calcutta, report on the Asean summit.
11:14
Friday's talks assume significance in the wake of India and China making rapid strides on the economic front, though the trade balance is in favour of China currently. Though India's exports to China almost doubled between 2005-06 and 2009-10 from 6.7 billion dollars to 11.6 billion dollars,...
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Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who met Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on the sidelines of the 19th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit today, said New Delhi seeks a harmonious and cooperative relationship with Beijing and the two countries must cooperate on regional,...
11:08
Chinese PM Wen Jiabao says India and China must work together and can extend cooperation in many areas.
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Early this morning, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama met at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Bali on Friday and declared their intention to push the Indo-US cooperation both at bilateral and at multilateral forums. Read the report by rediff.com's Saisuresh Sivaswamy.The...
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PM meets Obama, discusses implementation of civil n-deal (The Indian Express)Both leaders declare intention to push Indo-US cooperation at bilateral and multilateral forums. ReadS China Sea control: Others question Beijing, wary India tests the waters (Indian Express)India it is emboldened enough...
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