Just in: The government will not oppose the 2G order of the Supreme Court on licences issued. The SC had cancelled 122 licences issued by the then telecom minister A Raja.

Last week, the Congress said it was up to the government to respond to the Supreme Court verdict in 2G scam cancelling 122 2G spectrum licences even as the party noted that it had not passed any remarks against home minister P Chidambaram.

"The Supreme Court has taken a decision. The government will respond to it," AICC General Secretary and incharge of media department, Janardhan Dwivedi said.

The party also noted that the apex court has not passed any remark against Chidambaram for his alleged role in the 2G case but it withheld detailed comment pending a study of the order.

The Kerala High Court today observed that the compensation of Rs 3 crore sought by the families of the two fishermen killed by marines of Italian tanker Enrica Lexie was a 'petty' amount for the ship owners even as the detention of the vessel was extended till 5 pm tomorrow. 

A division bench comprising justices Ram Kumar and K Harilal in their oral observations said the compensation claimed by the relatives of Jelestine and Ajesh Binki was a petty amount for the ship owners. 

The vessel was covered by valid insurance. When the counsel representing the ship owners, attempted to say that the bank guarantee obtained by the court was sufficient, the bench asked how can it be a sufficient amount?

The image of "a small child's burned and blackened arm, its tiny fingers curled into a fist, protruding from the remains of a human bonfire", felt tragically familiar to Salman Rushdie when he wrote about it in 2002. The murder of children is something of an Indian specialty, Rushdie said.

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A total of 231 nominees are up for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the Nobel Institute said Monday, with Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, the EU and US soldier and WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning known to be on the list. "As always, there are the usual 'nominees' and some newcomers, some famous and some unknowns, hailing from the four corners of the world," the head of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, told AFP.

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Pervez Musharraf: Pakistan has won it's first Oscar. We should all be proud of this achievement and the national service Sharmeen.

A chemical that causes bad breath can be used to convert dental stem cells into human liver cells, a finding which scientists say could help repair the key organ
if damaged. Researchers at the Nippon Dental University in Japan found
that Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) -- the gas famed for generating the stench in stink bombs, flatulence and bad breath -- can be harnessed to create liver cells which could prove a valuable treatment for patients.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today ruled out granting SEZ status to Infosys, sought by the IT major, in line with the state's land policy, but gave an assurance that the company would get all the benefits associated with an SEZ. 

''I want Infosys to come and I have full sympathy for it. I will give all the benefits it wants. Whatever benefits it is getting within an SEZ project, I shall give them if it asks, provided they are within my capacity and it does not press for the SEZ nomenclature,'' Banerjee said. 

''If I formulate a law and a policy that I shall not allow SEZ, then how can I relax it for an individual? I was against SEZ and I shall be against it in future. We have prepared a land policy and our stand is in line with it," she said in an interview to a TV channel.

Why the Oscars were all about nostalgia. On the New York Times. Read

B S Yeddyurappa former chief minister of Karnataka informed reporters in Bangalore that the party leadership had assured him that he would be reinstated as the CM of Karnataka.

Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa reports that Yeddyurappa who celebrated his birthday today also said that there was no decision to quit the party.

He said, "I'm not hungry for power. I was assured that I would be made the CM once again. Had such an assurance not been given I would have not turned back and even looked at that chair."

Yeddyurappa is expected to meet leaders in Delhi next month and discuss the issue further.

Yeddyurappa's statement comes three days after BJP president Nitin Gadkari made it clear there would be no change in guard in Karnataka and those wishing to split the party could go ahead and do so.

The perspective from the other side --  the Dawn, Pakistan, report.

The Indian military is to conduct one of its largest mock war drills -- involving 20,000 troops -- close to the country's border with Pakistan, an official said on Monday. The manoeuvres, named Shoorveer or Brave Warrior, which will also involve 200 Russian-made tanks, are due to begin in the deserts of India's state of Rajasthan next month, army spokesman colonel Jagdeep Dahiya told AFP.

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Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has just won her first and Pakistan's first Oscar. Her documentary film Saving Face, co-directed by US-based Daniel Junge, follows Pakistani plastic surgeon Mohammad Jawad who preforms re-constructive surgery on acid attack survivors in Pakistan.

Watch  the interview on the Dawn.

Chinese Internet users taking advantage of temporary access to Google Inc's social networking site, Google+, have flooded US President Barack Obama's page on the site with calls for greater freedom in the world's most populous country.

Read the reuters report

After IOA failed to convince the International Olympic Committee to drop Dow Chemicals as the London Games' sponsor, a "dismayed" Indian Government has stepped in to ask the IOC to "go beyond lesser considerations" and cancel the deal. 

In a letter to IOC President Jacques Rogge, the Sports Ministry has sought Dow's removal as Olympic sponsor. Dow currently owns Union Carbide, the company responsible for the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy. The move comes after the IOC refused to entertain pleas by the Indian Olympic Association.

The Enforcement Directorate today issued summons to two former employees of UBS Switzerland to appear before a special court here in connection with its multi-crore money laundering probe against Pune stud-farm owner Hassan Ali
Khan. 

The summons, issued on the directions of a local court, have been issued against former executive Director of United Bank of Switzerland (UBS) Prabhu Guptara and another former employee Peter Willie under section 59 (1) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the duo have been asked to
be present in the court anytime between April 9-13. 

The section, under the stringent anti-money laundering law, is used for "reciprocal arrangements for processes and assistance for transfer of accused persons."

Nokia has just unveiled its 808 PureView, a 41MP camera toting smartphone. Too many you say? Not when it means 3x digital zoom without loss of quality. Apart from an f/2.4 Carl Zeiss lens, 1080p video at 30fps with 4x lossless zoom and CD quality sound, the 808 PureView also manages to cram a 4in AMOLED Gorilla Glass screen into that sexy shell.

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Hindutva, Gujarat asmita and development mark three transitional phases in the making of the myth of Narendra Modi.

While all three are seemingly disparate constructs, they converge at the subterranean level to narrate his progress as a politician -- from Hindutva firebrand pre-2002 to messiah of development in 2012 to an aspirant for the prime minister's job somewhere in the uncertain future.

Read the report on Firstpost.com

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has congratulated Bihar Chief Minister for the state having no  report of wild poliovirus in Bihar during the past 16 months. 

"On the occasion of India being free of polio for one year, it is truly a pleasure to congratulate you on more than 16 months without a reported case of wild poliovirus in Bihar", Gates said in a letter to Nitish Kumar which was made available today.

Best Actor Oscar winner Jean Dujardin and the makers of Undefeated, which won the documentary feature award, have apologised for dropping the
f-bomb during their acceptance speech on stage.

In his excitement on winning the Oscar for his leading role in The Artist, the actor accidentally dropped the French F-bomb and later apologised backstage.

The makers of Undefeated Daniel Lindsay, TJ Martin and Richard Middlemas were bleeped out and their  speech was cut off at 45 seconds after they used the f-word too. "It wasn't the classiest thing. But it did come from the
heart," said Martin backstage.

Rory Medcalf: Rudd's concession speech today lets slip that Australia is crafting a 2+2 defence and foreign ministers' dialogue with India. About time.

Medcalf is an India watcher, a former diplomat and a journalist, not necessarily in that order.

Age is just a number, but which number do you think you'll live to see? A life expectancy quiz based on a variety of factors, including family history, smoking habits, automobile use and occupation, from the Huffington Post.

Take the test

(And take it with a large helping of salt)

Let's give these hockey players a break. Do not make them Gods, do not put them on a pedestal, do not pressurise them with our expectations.

The story on Firstpost.com

On Firstpost.com: How an Iran 'oil shock' will wallop India's economy.

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Just in: The price of petrol is likely to rise by Rs 4 per litre, and diesel by Rs 2 per litre, say TV reports.

This is what Union minister for petroleum said on February 21.

"I don't know whether I should be happy at becoming a petroleum minister or not. There is pressure from the public, the opposition parties and my colleagues in the Congress all the time not to hike diesel, kerosene and LPG though the oil companies are incurring huge losses to the tune of 1.5 lakh crore rupees (1.5 trillion rupees).

"And elections are always round the corner in the country. If elections are the criteria (not to raise prices) we can never hike fuel prices as there are polls every year in India, the world's biggest democracy," Reddy said.

He admitted that the increase in fuel prices was a cause of concern and that there was no choice but to raise fuel prices as per international standards.

The face of Team Anna, Arvind Kejriwal's Facebook status says: '"They are threatening to sue me for sedition and for insulting Parliament. I hv stated the truth n m willing to face consequences thereof."

296 people like this.

Kejriwal courted a fresh controversy by saying that "rapists, murderers and looters" were sitting in Parliament, prompting a backlash from political parties across the board which described the comments as disgusting and an insult to democracy with the RJD saying that it would bring a privilege motion against the activist in the budget session of Parliament.

"The train was surrounded by these Muslims,' Raju Bhargava, the district superintendent of police, told The New York Times's Celia W. Dugger on Feb. 27, 2002. "There was heavy stone pelting and a bogie was set on fire. The fire engulfed the whole bogie and spread so fast the people couldn't come out of the compartment."

Read the India blogs on the New York Times

Irrespective of the fluctuating stock markets, money doesn't seem to be a problem for the Indian cricket board.

On the Daily Mail

Bulldozers today razed to the ground the three-storey house in Pakistan, where the most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden hid for more than five years,
dogging the biggest manhunt in the world. Razing the building, where bin Laden was shot dead by US special forces last year on May 2, Pakistan has destroyed a symbol of the country's failure to trace the al-Qaeda chief. 

Bulldozers and heavy machinery completely tore down the building and other structures within a compound located about 800 yards from the elite Pakistan Military Academy in the garrison town of Abbottabad. Local residents said the walls surrounding the compound were still standing.

This is the February 23 story from the Hoot.

The Indian Express has objected to the comments of Justice A K Ganguly on the 2G spectrum judgment in a television interview, saying 'only the verdict should speak for itself'. But judges also have a constitutional right to speak.  

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Expressing her government's resolve to keep life normal in West Bengal during the 24-hour nationwide general strike tomorrow, Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee today warned of steps, including break in service, in case of absence from duty by state employees. 

Assuring of steps to keep life normal during the strike tomorrow, Banerjee said that the state government's measures had been intimated to the Calcutta High Court also. 

"I will appeal to the people not to respond to the strike and to attend offices as usual as steps have been taken to run trains, trams, buses," she told a TV channel. 

"Trinamool Congress will not take to streets tomorrow to counter strike. My government will not allow any forcible closure of shops and offices," she said, asking pro-strike processions not to block roads. 

I couldn't help but notice my taxi driver's spanking new Nokia phone on a recent ride in Mumbai. No, he wasn't carrying the high-end Lumia "smart phone' (retail price about 30,000 rupees, or $611), but it certainly wasn't a basic phone either. It had a qwerty keyboard, wi-fi and Internet access. Pankaj, the taxi driver, said it cost him a cool 6,000 rupees, roughly a third of his monthly income. Impressed, I asked him "What do you use the Internet for?' "Facebook,' he said.

Read the India blogs on the NYT.

The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA.

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The Supreme Court reserves the order on dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur
Talwar's plea for shifting the trial in the Aarushi murder case from Ghaziabad to Delhi.

Large industrial houses which have taken the land of millions of tribal people, living on the fringes of civilization, are now projecting themselves as the saviour of the long oppressed. How intellectuals can play a role in creating these Messiahs of transformation. Read the Hoot.

Kingfisher Airlines, owned by Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya, is in talks with two foreign carriers, including International Airlines Group (IAG)-- the
owner of British Airways and Iberia --, for a potential rescue package, a report said. 

This could pave the way for IAG to take a minority stake in the troubled Indian airline, a report by The Times said. 

Mallya, who controls 58 per cent of Kingfisher, said that he had secured provisional approval from the Indian government for a change in the law that would ease restrictions on foreign ownership of airlines. 

He claimed that the foreign carriers, which he refused to identify, stood ready to invest as soon as the change was announced - possibly within days. 

William Shatner: Congratulations to my dear friend Christopher Plummer for his win tonight! My best, Bill  

Shatner rose to fame of legendary proportions when he was played Captain James T Kirk in the TV serial Star Trek.

Also on the FP: On March 11, 2011, a tsunami was triggered by a magnitude 9 earthquake that struck 130 km off the coast of Northern Japan and swept across the coast of Northern Honshu, destroying all in its path.

A year later, thousands of photographs, slowly deteriorating due to the elements, lie scattered throughout the tsunami affected region of Japan.

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A sudden silence over news about drones and drone attacks, so, let's make it up to you...

Read on Foreign Policy mag: When drones were created, how they're used, and what their future looks like.

This actress vowed the red carpet today stepping out in a dramatic dark velvet gown which boasted a thigh-high split to devastating effect. But she can do little about her aging ankles. Who is she?

Iran's state TV has described the country's foreign film Oscar win as a victory over Israel. The broadcast says today the award won by "The Separation"
succeeded in "leaving behind" a film from the "Zionist regime," a reference to the country's arch-foe Israel.

A Separation, a tale of domestic turmoil, competed in the Oscars' foreign language category against the Israeli Footnote, about a rivalry between father-son Talmudic scholars. Traditionally, Iranian officials are dismissive of international cultural ceremonies.

The SP, Noida, now says he did not reveal the name of the 17-year-old rape victim and blames junior officers for the goof-up.

Here's the background to that story. The update to that story is that the fifth accused has been arrested.

Ahead of the crucial sixth phase of UP elections tomorrow, Congress leader Digvijay Singh advised voters to support Rahul Gandhi's mission in Uttar
Pradesh. 

Asking people to discard the 'M' factor and vote for the 'D' factor, Singh in a three-minute speech in the Muradnagar constituency said 'M' stands for Maya and Mulayam and 'D' stands for development. 

Christopher Plummer won the best supporting actor Oscar for his role as an elderly man suffering from cancer who comes out as gay in "Beginners.' At 82, Plummer is the most senior actor to win an Oscar.

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Plummer, if you aren't into Hollywood films, is the hero in the 1970s film, The Sound of Music, which you should watch before you die.

A tribal woman was gangraped allegedly by five men at Shalkhela in Birbhum district, police said today. The incident occurred when the 33-year-old married
construction worker was returning home at Indragacha from Suri along with a male colleague. According to the FIR lodged by her, five men accosted
them and looted cash before taking her away to an isolated place to commit the crime.

A 13-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by three persons, including two teenagers in Chhindwara, the sixth such case in Madhya Pradesh in the last
fortnight. A railway clerk, Lakhesh Bamya and two boys, aged 16 and
17 years, were arrested yesterday for allegedly gang-raping the girl.

A changing climate isn't just about floods, droughts and heatwaves. It brings erupting volcanoes and catastrophic earthquakes too.

Read the story on the Guardian.

The body of an Indian, who died in an accident in Saudi Arabia, is finally being flown back to his family in Kerala after a year of relentless efforts to
overcome legal and bureaucratic hurdles. 

Krishnankutty Nair, 55, who hailed from Kindangoor in  Kottayam, Kerala, died on February 24, but could not be brought back home because his sponsor refused to complete the requisite formalities to transport the body. 

Nair was working as driver with the Saudi sponsor in Jizan for 18 years, and died after the car he was driving hit
a stray camel.

In Godhra, the town in Gujarat that is home to about 160,000 people, the train station was quiet on a recent afternoon. A police officer stopped me from snapping a picture. Normally it wasn't a problem, he said, but right now he had orders to be careful. Careful, of course, because these were the days leading up to the tenth anniversary of one of India's worst incidents of communal violence, which began here on Feb. 27, 2002.

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The Indian hockey team's Olympic qualification was not just celebrated in the country but was also lauded by their counterparts across the border in
Pakistan who felt the side's presence in the mega-event is essential for the sport.
India had failed to qualify for the 2008 Olympics, which was a first-in-80-years low for Indian hockey.

But the team's erased the memories of that nightmare by booking their London ticket last night by hammering France 8-1 in the qualifiers' final in New Delhi. 

India's performance was lauded by Pakistani players such as Rehan Butt and Sohail Abbas, who said to save Asian Hockey, it is necessary that the neighbours play Olympics.

On Caravan magazine: The Emperor Uncrowned -- The rise of Narendra Modi.

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There's a reason why the phrase "cute as a kitten" has stuck around all this time. It's because few things are as absolutely adorable as young felines doing their thing. Add a dose of grogginess, and it's tough to imagine a more precious scene.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks about foreign-funded NGOs stalling the introduction of genetically modified food and the commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power project are bound to be taken seriously by his supporters and detractors alike.

Read the editorial in the Hindu.

Responding to an article on the Delhi blast investigations appearing in the Israeli paper Haaretz, Ambassador Ushpiz said: "As we have said time after time in the last two weeks since our friend and colleague Tal Yehoshua Koren was attacked by terrorists in New Delhi, we have the full confidence and the highest appreciation for the Government of India and it's relevant agencies.

"We are grateful for their assistance and appreciative of our cooperation. We have no doubt that justice will be done. I am not aware of the details outlined in this article."

Continued existence of terrorist sanctuaries in Pakistan is a major impediment in fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, America's top diplomat in Kabul has
lamented, asking Islamabad to take decisive action against safe havens.
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Croker, said it was difficult for the Afghans and the NATO forces to decisively defeat an enemy who can take sanctuary and maintain its headquarters in another country.

"I think there's no question that the safe haven have been and remain a problem," Croker told the CNN in an interview. "We've been clear about that. We've been public about that. The Pakistani government needs to take action for their own sake as well as Afghanistan's and ours," the top American
diplomat said. 

According to The Washington Post, Crocker had recently sent a top secret cable to the US on the existence of terrorist safe havens in Pakistan.

Polling for the sixth phase of UP assembly elections covering 68 seats spread over 13 districts would be held tomorrow that would decide the fate of RLD's
youth face Jayant Chaudhary and state Energy Minister Ramveer Upadhyaya among others. 

Thirteen districts where polling would be held include Saharanpur, Prabuddha Nagar, Meerut, Bagpath, Ghaziabad, Panchsheel Nagar, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Muzaffarnagar, Mathura, Mahamayanagar and Agra.

"More than 2.17 crore voters are expected to cast their votes at 22137 polling centres," the Election Commission said. A total of 1103 candidates, including 1017 men and 86 women are in the fray in this phase.

Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal has courted a fresh controversy by saying that "rapists, murderers and looters" were sitting in Parliament, prompting a backlash from political parties across the board which described the comments as disgusting and an insult to democracy with the RJD saying that it would bring a privilege motion against the activist in the budget session of Parliament.

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Gujarat riot victims prevented from protesting against Narendra Modi during his sadbhavna fast in September 2011.

Read the blog by R B Sreekumar, former DGP/Gujarat who deposed before the Nanavati Commission.

Arun Jaitley, one of the BJP's seniormost leaders and a friend of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, discusses the 2002 Gujarat riots in an exclusive conversation with Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt.

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Special envoy Madhusudhan Ganapathi has been rushed to Norway to convey India's concerns in connection with the NRI children's custody row and will
meet the Norwegian Foreign Minister today. 

Ganapathi, Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs, has been tasked to once again take up the matter and convey the government's views on the issue to the Norwegian authorities. 

Ganapathi is scheduled to meet Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store to convey India's concerns over the matter involving one-year-old Aishwarya and three-year-old Abhigyan who were taken away by the child welfare officials in Norway in May last year and placed in foster care. 

The kids' parents, NRI couple Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya, were accused of negligence by the Norwegian child welfare officials. 

India has been exerting pressure on Norway to find an amicable solution to the problem. India had said that it would make "all out" efforts to ensure early return of the two Indian children from Norway following attempts by authorities of that country to keep them in foster care after expiry of their visa next month. 

With a silent film scooping a plethora of gongs this year, the 84th Academy Awards undoubtedly had a retro feel.  And as the stars stepped out onto the red carpet it appeared that Oscar fashion also made a return to the black and white era. Angelina Jolie lead the way stepping out in a dramatic dark velvet gown which boasted a thigh-high split to devastating effect.

Read more on the Daily Mail.

Media titan Rupert Murdoch today launched his latest Sunday paper, The Sunday Sun and despite all the media hype that the first issue would land the mother of all world exclusives, it has turned out to be nothing, but moonshine.

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An Australian newspaper today slammed the Indian cricket team as a "rabble with no redeeming features" and lashed out at Sachin Tendulkar's remonstration
of being blocked by Brett Lee in his run-out in the triangular series match as "woeful". 

A write-up in 'Daily Telegraph' said that the Indians should be ashamed of themselves as they had "treated the greater game with scant respect". 

"Thank goodness the game against Sri Lanka in Hobart will be India's last on this tour -- barring some major mathematical quirk of results which will see them make the finals. India cannot go home soon enough to their bulging bank accounts and flat, grassless wickets," the write-up said. 

"Sachin Tendulkar's run out for 14 at the SCG typified India's tour. Pathetic. To remonstrate that he had been blocked by Brett Lee when they barely touched was just woeful. Tendulkar was not forced to alter course and he gave up
attempting to make his ground. 

"He may once have been the greatest modern cricketer in the world and India the new arrogant financial force in the game, but on and off the field this rabble will go home with no redeeming features. It was yet another example of India treating the greater game with scant respect," it said. 

The writer said that it was hard to believe that India was the number one Test team in the world for 20 months and won the World Cup last year.

Today, is the 10th anniversary of Gujarat riots that left around 2000 dead. Shreekant Sambrani writing for rediff.com says that Gujarat is caught in the dilemma between pragmatic concerns of sustaining development and the moral and ethical obligations of a just and fair society.

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The Pakistani film "Saving Face", by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, won the Documentary (Short Subject) Academy Award this year.
The film follows British plastic surgeon Dr Mohammad Jawad, who returns to his homeland to help victims of acid burns.

It is the story of one woman as she fights to see that the perpetrators of the crime are imprisoned for life. This is the first time ever that a Pakistani film has been nominated and has won.

On rediff.com: Oscars Winners at a Glance: The Artist wins 5 awards

Indian American actress-model Padma Lakshmi's boyfriend Teddy Forstmann, who died of cancer in November, has left an estimated USD 1.8 billion for her daughter.

Lakshmi, 41, and the 71-year-old were dating for several years, were together when the 'Top Chef' host gave birth to her daughter Krishna.

Although, Forstmann is not the father of the two-year-old he is said to have carried out the role of a father since Krishna was born.

The father of the baby girl is venture capitalist Adam Dell, the brother of Dell Computers founder Michael. Lakshmi dated him for a while before meeting Forstmann.

In January 2011, Adam filed a lawsuit seeking full custody of his daughter and to have his name added to her birth certificate. But according to court papers, Lakshmi revealed she hoped tests would show Forstmann was the biological dad. Lakshmi was earlier married to novelist Salman Rushdie for four years.

Good morning. Defence Minister A K Antony expresses "surprise" over China's objection to his visit to Arunachal Pradesh. "I was surprised at this reaction. This is unfortunateand really objectionable," says Antony.

Antony reiterated that Arunachal was an integral part of India.

Trade, bank unions call mega strike on February 28 (The Times of India)

The strike will be backed by most of the countrys trade unions, including 11 central trade unions and 5,000 smaller union. Read

ISI-linked businessman claimed the financial backing of mystery Indian political family (The Hindu)
Mansoor Ijaz, architect of Pakistan political crisis, told bankers he received $60 million from family's Swiss bank holdings. Read

Post-Godhra riots continue to dog Modi's political career (Hindustan Times)
A decade on, the burning of S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express near Godhra, which left 59 karsevaks dead and triggered massive communal riots across Gujarat, remains the biggest blemish on chief minister Narendra Modis political career. Read

Academy Awards: 'The Artist' wins best picture, lead actor Oscars (Indian Express)
Meryl Streep wins best actress for her role as Margaret Thatcher in 'The Iron Lady'. Read

Abused in moving car, Noida victim dumped outside sector 12 park (The Times of India)

In yet another brutal assault on a girl in a moving car, a 17-year-old class X student of a city public school was allegedly gangraped by five of her neighbours. Read