1. Nepal bus plunges into ravine killing 43
2.  HC appoints mediator to end Mafatlal family feud
3. Slap case against Bhushan for Kashmir comment: Sena
4. Yatra NOT about repackaging myself, insists Advani
5. Ambala car bomb meant for Delhi: Cops
6. China steelmaker eyes India for $2bn plant
7. Uphaar victim: Compensation halved for victims above 20
8. Advani blames Cong for yatra hiccups
9. Widespread panic as Bali quake injures over 50
10. Kudankulam N-stir intesifies, villagers block road
11. Haqqani network leader among 3 killed by drones
12. Bhutan's king marries commoner

Here are the details. Over 50 suspected Sri Ram #Sene and Shahid Bhagat Singh Krantikari Sena activists assembled outside Patiala House court premises and raised slogans against Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan for his reported remarks for a plebiscite on the Jammu and Kashmir issue.

The activists, after the court proceedings, had an altercation with five persons who claimed themselves to be #Anna supporters and beat up two of them.

The victims were taken to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital by the police. The two, who sustained injuries, were identified as Mohammed Shaufi and Raj Kumar.

In other news, Saif Ali Khan has revealed that he looked up to his late father "tremendously in almost every way" and that he was a "remarkable man".  

The 41-year-old Bollywood actor, whose ancestors ruled Pataudi, an erstwhile princely state near Delhi - spoke for the first time about the rich legacy left behind by his famous father, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.

"He was so dignified and inspired so much respect in all of us. I will not emulate him, but I will try and absorb the very special qualities that made him the man that he is. I would like to carry on the good work that he was doing," Saif said.  

On the Hoot: There are lots of unanswered questions about the how-come and whys of the presence of Times Now crew in Prashant Bhushan's room when the attackers entered and started beating up the Supreme Court lawyer.

Had the Times Now team been forewarned by the Ram Sene group and had they quickly taken an appointment with Mr Prashanth Bhushan in order to ensure they were present ?

Read the full story.

Shiv Sena today held protest against Supreme Court advocate Prashant #Bhushan and demanded registering of a case against him for advocating plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir.

"We demand registration of FIR against Bhushan and arresting him for his Kashmir comment," Shiv Sena state unit chief Ashok Gupta said. He said Bhushan's statement boosts the moral of separatists, terrorists and anti-national elements in J&K. Bhushan had said in Varanasi last week that there could be a plebiscite in Kashmir.

Update on the Mafatlal family dispute. The Bombay High Court today tried his best to put an end to the disputes and appointed a senior lawyer as a mediator between industrialist Atulya Mafatlal and his estranged wife Sheetal.

A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and A M Thipsay were hearing two petitions one filed by Atulya's daughter Marushka seeking the FIR lodged by Sheetal against her for harassment to be quashed and another filed by a private
investments company owned by Atulya seeking CID inquiry against Sheetal for theft of a painting worth Rs 2 crore.

Amid speculation over BJP's prime ministerial candidate, L K #Advani today said that his yatra was not aimed at "repackaging" himself. "People ask me if this yatra of yours is to repackage Advani. My answer is very clear that it has no link with me or the BJP.

"It aims to generate self-confidence among the people in this hour of deep dejection," Advani said while flagging off Jan Swabhiman Yatra led by national vice-president Kalraj Mishra in Uttar Pradesh.

Advani spoke after party leader Uma Bharti claimed that he is the "most capable person" to lead the country in the present situation.

During an interview Clinton said that she believes President Barack Obama would be re-elected and that she expects to leave her current job after a transition period in his second term.

"I am looking forward to being out of public life, whether it's high-level appointments like this or elected office, the Daily Mail quoted Clinton, as saying.

Batting for L K #Advani as BJP's prime ministerial candidate, party leader Uma Bharti today claimed that he is the "most capable person" to lead the
country in the present situation.

Welcoming Advani's yatra here, #Bharti said that in the past VP Singh had raised the issue of corruption in Bofors and had gone on to become the Prime Minister. "Advani ji is the most capable person to lead the country in the present situation," she said.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been named the most powerful person in the art world, according to a poll compiled by ArtReview magazine.

But Ai, who was released in June after being detained for more than 80 days by Chinese authorities, told the BBC he does "not feel powerful at all". Read

The Delhi Police today said that LeT and Babbar Khalsa International BKI had joined hands to plot a terror strike in the national capital ahead of Diwali following the recovery of an explosive-laden car in Haryana's Ambala.

The seizure of the car in #Ambala last evening came following a trail of inputs provided by central intelligence agencies that a car was headed to Delhi through Ambala with explosives and detonators.

Sydney has beaten Paris and New York to be voted the world's number one city, according to a survey.  

The Conde Nast Traveler Readers Choice Awards, held in New York, where over eight million people voted cities according to ambience, friendliness, lodging, restaurants, culture, sight-seeing and shopping, placed the harbour city on the top.  

The readers of Conde Nast Traveler gave Sydney a score of 85.1, ahead of the next highest scoring city, Florence at 85, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.  

Anshan Iron and Steel, one of China's biggest steelmakers, is studying the feasibility of a $2bn steel plant in India in what would be the first move into the country by a large Chinese steel producer.

The report in the Financial Times says, Zhang Xiaogang, president of Anshan, believes that having an involvement in India -- probably as part of collaboration with other steel producers -- was part of his effort to make Anshan the "most competitive steelmaker in the world" over the next five to 10 years.

The long wait for #iOS 5 ended yesterday, as Apple opened up its servers to the masses eager to get their paws on the latest version of the company's mobile operating system.

For many users, the process of downloading and installing the update onto iPhones, iPads and iPods has been flawless -- but for a significant number of users, the experience has been far from painless. Read on Neowin.net.

Meanwhile, a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told TN CM Jayalalithaa that the stir against Kodankulam nuclear power project would hit the state's development, Jaya said today said her government would respect the sentiments of locals on the controversial project.

"As for as Kodankulam Nuclear Power Project is concerned, Tamil Nadu government will certainly act respecting the local peoples' sentiments. I will be one among you in the issue," she told a campaign rally here for the next week civic polls.

The complete report on the Uphaar verdict, shortly on rediff.com.

The Supreme Court reduces punitive damages imposed by the Delhi High Court
on the Ansals from Rs 2.5 crore to Rs 25 lakh. Ansals to pay 85 per cent, while Delhi Vidyut Board to pay 15 per cent.

The compensation for those below 20 has been reduced from Rs 15 lakh to Rs 7.5 lakh.

The court will decide on the petition of Ansals and Municipal Corporaton of Delhi that challenged the order of Delhi high court that ordered a compensation of approximately Rs 25 crore.

According to the verdict today, the Ansals will have to pay a greater share -- 85 per cent now, from the earlier 55 per cent. And of course, victims who were above 20 years then, will be paid a compensation of Rs 10 lakh instead of Rs 18 lakh.

Just in: Uphaar tragedy: Supreme Court reduces compensation for victims above 20 (at the time of the incident), from Rs 18 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. Details follow

Barred from entering South Africa, Nobel peace laureate the Dalai Lama may receive the South African award named after Mahatma Gandhi in India.
Gandhi's granddaughter, Ela, may travel to India to bestow the award on Tibetan spiritual leader. 

The Dalai Lama was picked up for the annual Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace by South Africa-based Gandhi Development Trust.

Sikh protesters stormed into a community centre and trashed it for selling meat and alcohol. Hundreds of men attacked the Sikh Cultural Centre in the UK, after news spread it was breaking the faith's rules. Three people -- including a policeman --were hurt in the riot, which turned into a five-hour stand-off, reports the Daily Mail.

US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman today, arrived in Pakistan for talks with the country's top political and military leadership.

Grossman held an important meeting with Pakistan's army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani. The two discussed US concerns about the Haqqani network and other security issues, DawnNews reported.

Senior BJP leader L.K Advani has blamed the Congress party for the snags that have hit his nationwide tour and called it an attempt to hinder his tour against corruption.

The Uttar Pradesh government and the Railways yesterday denied Advani permission to hold a rally at a railway ground in Mughalsarai in the state, the next stop of the Jan Chetna Yatra.

Reacting sharply, Advani said the Congress is getting jittery after seeing overwhelming public response. "Why this kind of approach should have been adopted towards a meeting that had been officially permitted and to suddenly say that we will not permit any political party when they have actually been giving permission. When I heard this I told someone they should have said that permission had been granted for a week," Advani said.

Moving on from Bali, against the backdrop of allegations pertaining to illegal mining, Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here.

Though the Kamat government has been facing heat over alleged instances of illegal mining in the state, the change of leadership is not on the cards at least till Justice M B Shah Commission probing illegal mining submits its report,
sources said. However, Kamat said his meeting with Sonia Gandhi yesterday was a courtesy call.

Although not strong enough to trigger a tsunami, the quake was felt on neighboring Java and Lombok islands, hundreds of miles (kilometers) away.

"It knocked me off my motorcycle," said one badly shaken Bali resident, Miftahul Chusna. Candy Juliani, a public relations officer for the Sanur Beach Hotel, said terrified guests fled the building.

"We have special emergency routes for this type of situation, but everyone was so scared, they just ignored them," Juliani said. At least 50 people were hurt, suffering cuts, broken bones and head wounds, said Wayan Sudanti, a hospital spokesman.

The patients included 12 students and three teachers injured when the ceiling of their high school caved in, said I Gede Tejo from the local disaster agency. Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.

A giant quake off the country on December 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, half of them in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh.

A powerful earthquake today jolted Indonesia's popular resort island of Bali, causing widespread panic and injuring at least 50 people, many with broken bones and head wounds, says an AP report.

The walls and ceilings of some temples and at least one school along the coast crumbled, and witnesses told local radio and television stations the roofs of homes collapsed.

The US Geological Survey said the 6.0-magnitude quake was centered 100 kilometers southwest of the island. It hit 60 kilometers beneath the ocean floor.

A senior leader of the Haqqani network, blamed for a string of deadly attacks in Afghanistan, was among three militants killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region today. 

Jalil Haqqani, a close relative of Haqqani network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, was among those killed, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

Two of the three men who escaped after attacking Supreme Court lawyer and Anna Hazare aide Prashant Bhushan have surrendered to the Delhi police. The third person, Inder Verma, was arrested yesterday, immediately after the incident at the chambers of the SC lawyer.

The issue gathered steam after senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh revealed the contents of a letter allegedly sent by senior RSS leader Suresh Bhaiyya Joshi to Hazare in April, when the activist was holding a hunger strike demanding the enactment of tough anti-graft laws.

Espousing Hazare's cause through the said document, the RSS had extended solidarity with his anti-graft campaign.

Senior lawyer and social activist Shanti Bhushan has expressed his willingness to defend arrested Indian Police Service officer Sanjeev Bhatt in the Supreme Court if the latter approached him.

"If that case comes to the Supreme Court, if Sanjiv Bhatt needs to hire a lawyer, and if he approaches me, then I will defend him against Gujarat Government. We have been opposing communalism. We have always opposed Narendra Modi's and the RSS line of thinking," Bhushan said.

This should raise a cheer among journalists. The Hoot, which is a media watch website says, when prices of everything are going up everywhere, the  Press Club, Mumbai has slashed liquor by 10 to 16 per cent following members' "justified" complaints of high prices.

It hopes this will raise consumption and add to the bottomline. Half the revenue is from liquor consumed by members and guests. Relative to Maharashtra, liquor costs half as much in Delhi and a third in Goa. 

Last evening, Supreme Court lawyer and Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan was attacked for his remarks on Kashmir. Police have identified two right-wing groups behind the incident. According to Bhushan's secretary Pranav Sachdeo, who is also an eyewitness to the attack, the noted lawyer had returned to his chamber no 301 of New Lawyers Chamber opposite the Supreme Court at about 4 pm. Read Sahim Salim's story.

Speaking to CNN IBN today, Bhushan who was discharged from hospital last night said he did not expect to be beaten up for his remarks on Kashmir, but he had no regrets for his remark. He says it is absurd to call his remarks seditious.

Bhushan reiterates that the remarks were his own and not that of Team Anna and admitted that he still had minor aches and pains after yesterday's incident.

Mahmood, also known as the "Fake Sheikh", whose article led to the arrests of Pakistan cricketers Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt on charges of cheating at gambling and receiving corrupt payments, was giving evidence at London''s Southwark crown court from behind a screen to hide his identity, The Guardian reports.

Hisar by-elections: test for Congress, Team Anna (Hindustan Times)

Anna factor looms large on the Congress as Hisar votes in by-elections today. It will be a test for both Team Anna and the ruling Congress as the social activists crossed the entire length and breadth of the constituency, opposing the Congress, during campaigning. Read

Terror plot foiled in Ambala, over 5 kg explosives recovered (Hindustan Times)

A suspected terror plot has been foiled with the recovery of over 5kg explosives and detonators from a car parked outside Cantt railway station in Ambala, police said. Read

Chasing tip-off on HC blast, cops find car bomb in Ambala (Indian Express)
Suspected terror plot foiled; Over 5-kg explosives and detonators recovered from the car. Read

Shivani Bhatnagar murder: RK Sharma's hometown jubilant, crackers at home(The Times of India)

"I know the family for the past 30 years and they have finally got justice. I am eagerly waiting for the family to return," said VK Sood, neighbour of RK Sharma. Read

Goons attack Prashant Bhushan in chamber (The Hindu)
Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena and Shri Ram Sena involved; the organisations claimed that the assault was in retaliation for his recent statement on Jammu and Kashmir. Read

Prashant Bhushan's attacker to court arrest (DNA)
Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga, who attacked Lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan, will court arrest at 11:30am on Thursday. Read