Faced with intense pressure from the IOC to act against Suresh Kalmadi, the IOA's Executive Board meets here tomorrow to decide the fate of its tainted
President who has not formally resigned from the post yet.

The IOC has written three letters to the IOA, threatening to act on its own if the national sports apex body does not explain what action it was planning to take against Kalmadi who is facing corruption charges related to the Commonwealth Games.

The Kalmadi issue will be debated at length at the meeting and the members will be apprised of the three letters by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The run-up to the crucial meeting has been marked by bitter internal wranglings between the pro-Kalmadi and the rival factions and tomorrow's meeting is expected to be stormy.

Despite the pressure from the IOC, Kalmadi, who spent nine months in jail because of corruption charges in the hosting of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, has not resigned from the IOA President's post.

Many children don't like eating their fruits and veggies, but for thousands of adults, picky eating isn't something they can outgrow. It can even be life-crippling, though it's not yet officially recognized as an eating disorder.

Read the story on the Daily Beast.

An Iraqi student shot dead his American teacher and then shot himself in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region today, the provincial governor said. "There was an argument between the student and his American teacher ... and as a result of that argument the student shot dead his teacher using a pistol he had, and then shot himself," said Sulaimaniya Province Governor Zan Mohammad Salih. He said the student had survived the shooting and was now in hospital.

Read the report on reuters.

A local court today extended till March 5 the police custody of two Italian marines charged with murder of two Indian fishermen. 

Marines Latore Massimiliano and Salvatore Gironi were produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate A K Gopakumar, as the deadline of their police custody ended today. 

The duo were initially remanded in judicial custody for 14 days by the court on February 20, but based on the plea of the investigators, they were sent to police custody. 

The marines of Italian ship 'Enrica Lexie' have been charged with offences under Section 302 (murder) of IPC for allegedly killing two fishermen by firing at their boat off the coast of Kollam on February 15 after suspecting them to be pirates. 

The two marines were produced before the magistrate amid tight security in the afternoon.

A Delhi court today issued fresh non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Congress MP Mohd Azharrudin saying he is "deliberately" avoiding appearance before it in connection with a cheque-bouncing case. 

Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Vikrant Vaid issued the NBW for March 7, while dismissing a plea made on behalf of Azhar to exempt the cricketer-turned-politician from personal appearance in the court on the ground that he was busy in poll campaigning in the ongoing UP assembly elections. "He (Azharrudin) is deliberately not appearing before the court," said the MM as Azhar's counsel said his client is busy in the poll campaigning.

Update on the third LeT terrorist arrested.

One more suspected LeT operative has been arrested from Jharkhand by Delhi Police taking the number of terrorists picked up in the last two days to three.
Taufeek Ahmed Peer (20), cousin of Ehtesham, who was arrested here yesterday, was picked up by police from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, sources said here. 

They said no explosives were found on Peer and he is being brought to Delhi. Peer would be produced before the court of Hazaribagh Chief Judicial Magistrate and Delhi Police would seek his remand to bring him here for further interrogation in connection with the foiled terror bid in the capital.

Indian diplomats are a harried lot these days. On the one hand, they are under immense pressure from the US and Europe to comply with the sanctions they've imposed on Iran, ostensibly to induce it to abandon its nuclear weapons programme. And the language of diplomacy is turning blunt by the day.

Read the report on Firstpost.com.

The Gujarat Government today opposed the petition of IPS officer Rahul Sharma, who had provided CDs of phone call records during 2002 riots to Nanavati Commission, challenging the charge sheet against him before the CAT, saying he cannot claim immunity under the Commissions of Inquiry Act.

State government counsel Bhaskar Tanna opposed Sharma's petition on the ground that section 6 of CIA provides protection to witness against statements before a commission and not for submission of documents.

Just in: One more suspected LeT terrorist arrested in Bihar, say Delhi Police.

Yesterday, the Delhi police arrested two alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists. Delhi Police chief BK Gupta said memory cards showing terror training camps in Pakistan and making of IED were recovered. Both the terrorists were arrested from Tughlakabad.

The police said they were about to carry out the attack in a day or two, police sources claimed. The arrest of 2 Lashker-e-Taiba terrorists is a good catch and the duo were planning to strike anytime, Gupta said.

Ram Gopal Varma @RGVzoomin:  I dint ever see a Nathalia kind of combination of a classically beautiful face with an angel like body nd then so highly expressive  

Ram Gopal Varma @RGVzoomin: We wr tryng fr Sunny leone bt by Gods grace it dint wrk out or else v wud hv lost out on smone as divine as Nathalia nd I thank God for that.

Ted Turner, the 73-year-old billionaire founder of CNN, has revealed that he has four girlfriends each of whom he spends one week with a month.

Read about the lucky man.

The ONGC share auction was underscribed say early reports. 9.3 crore shares were bid on BSE, while 19.92 crore shares were bid on NSE. A total of of 42 crore shares were on offer with a floor price of Rs 290 per share with a face value of Rs 5 per share. ONGC is expected to raise Rs 8000 crore from the auction.

Ram Gopal Varma ' @RGVzoomin I nvr hid a fact tht am a devotee of womans beauty..bt I hvn't seen nyone mre beautiful thn Nathalia kaur who did dan dan song in Department.  

Contextualise the tweet from this story on Mid Day ...

If the buzz from the sets of Department are any indication, it looks like Ram Gopal Varma is all set to recreate the magic of the Khallas song from Company. The filmmaker recently got choreographer Ganesh Acharya to shoot the Dan Dan number with Indo-Brazilian hottie, Nathalia Kaur, who was also a calendar girl. 

Apparently, Sanjay Dutt strongly recommended her for the song, while the filmmaker was keen on shooting it with his latest muse, Madhu Shalini. 

While RGV has shot another song with MS, it seems he's impressed with Nathalia as he hasn't haven't seen any other girl with more expressions along with an angel-like body! Phew!

News of the one-day auction for sale of the government's 5 per cent stake in ONGC.

ONGC received bids for 19.9 crore shares on NSE in the acution. The bids have been mostly in the price range of Rs 290-293 per share for the auction, under which the government has proposed to sell about 42.77 crore shares.

The auction commenced at 0915 hours closed at 1530 hours today.

The government has fixed a floor price of Rs 290 per share for the share sale through this one-day auction, wherein it is targetting to raise about Rs 12,000-13,000 crore.

Details awaited.

Expressing displeasure for not furnishing details of the homosexual population in India, the Supreme Court today asked for all relevant records from the Centre about the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people, including their population and the number of those HIV-infected.

A bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya said the data put before the Delhi High Court had not been submitted to the apex court.

They directed the Centre to provide full information on the next date of hearing. The apex court was hearing the Centre's arguments on the 2009 Delhi High court that had decriminalised gay sex. The bench also pulled up the government and its officials for not doing their "homework" in the case.

Emma Watson is all set to steal the limelight in Sofia Coppola's new movie after signing up to play one of the Bling Ring gang.

The Lost In Translation director's new venture is based on the true story of a group of teens who stole from the homes of stars including Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom in 2008 and 2009.

The 21-year-old actress has agreed to appear in the movie and it is one of several new projects she is working on after the wizard franchise came to an end in 2011.

A nice read on the Telegraph, UK.

Julia Roberts has cited Meryl Streep as her role model when it comes to raising well-adjusted Hollywood offspring.

A colleague wants to do terrible, unprintable things to this chap...

The chief executive of the biggest bank in the United States says journalists are ridiculously overpaid. At the company's annual investor day, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called the percentage of newspaper company revenue paid out to employees "just damned outrageous," according to Bloomberg News. "Worse than that, you [the media] don't even make any money!"

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The US-based search engine Google Inc today told a Delhi court that that it has aleady removed alleged objectionable contents from its web posts as it was
aware of its responsibility as a service provider. 

The search engine, in a written statement filed before Administrative Civil Judge Praveen Singh, denied the allegation that it projected Indian culture in poor light. 

The statement said that Google Inc was aware of its responsibilities as a service provider and has a  system to ensure that "rights and interests" of all relevant parties were well protected. The US-based firm said the alleged objectionable contents were removed after its Indian subsidiary Google India brought them to the notice of the service provider.

Two-year-old girl child Falak has shown remarkable improvement in her medical condition with doctors at AIIMS stating that she is "stable" and able to
breathe on her own. 

The conclusion was arrived after they observed that Falak has been without artificial respiration for the past three days and has shown limb movement without any external stimuli.

"Her condition is stable. She is no more in a critical state as she can now live without ventilator support. She is fit to be shifted to the wards but we have decided to keep her in the ICU least people throng to see her," said Dr Deepak
Agarwal, who has been attending on the girl child since she was admitted to the AIIMS Trauma Centre on January 18. 

Falak was brought to the hospital with severe head injuries, broken arms, bite marks all over her body and cheeks branded with hot iron.

The day after Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai returned from a 3-day visit to Maldives to broker a political accord among that country's quarreling politicians, it transpires that the Maldivian Navy took into custody 11 Indian fishermen from Kanyakumari, who set out from the Kerala coast almost week ago.

Read MK Bhadrakumar's blog

The news is everywhere, but just in case you haven't read it, here you go...

James Murdoch has stepped down as executive chairman of News International. It allows him to focus on expanding the international TV businesses of parent company News Corporation.

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Rediff.com's MI Khan reports that a Special CBI court  in Patna today framed charges against Bihar's former chief ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and Jagannath Mishra along with 32 other accused in the multicrore fodder scam case, officials said.

According to court officials, the CBI  court after hearing the case related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 47 lakh from the treasury to purchase fodder for public distribution, framed charges against Lalu, Jagannath and others including former MLA R K Rana and JD-U MP Jagdish Sharma.

Detailed report on rediff.com soon.

Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Pyongyang is a modest success. But let's not get carried away, says Foreign Policy.

Myanmar artist Nyein Chan Su's paintings have a breezy simplicity. Broad, colourful strokes and exaggerated figures, often in silhouette, capture an isolated country steeped in Buddhist culture but blighted by years of military rule.

Read the reuters report.

The bail plea of Mamata Banerjee's nephew has been rejected. Aakash Banerjee has been sent to judicial custody till March 2.

Aakash was produced in court today and charged with assault on a public servant which is a non-bailable offence. He is also charged with wrongful restraint and using force to deter a public servant from duty.

He was arrested along with two others on the charge of assaulting a police sergeant at Kidderpore in Kolkata.

A Delhi court on February 17 issued a non-bailable warrant against Congress MP and former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin for his repeated failure to appear before it in connection with a cheque bounce case. The case came up hearing again today.

Metropolitan Magistrate Vikrant Vaid issued the warrant against former captain of the Indian cricket team for March 1 after rejecting his counsel's submission that he was busy in the election campaigning in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

The magistrate, who on the last date of hearing had told Azhar's counsel that his client should attend the proceedings on Saturday, dismissed the application moved by the counsel seeking exemption from personal appearance on behalf of the MP from the Moradabad constituency, who is accused in a cheque bounce case.

Just in: A Delhi court issues a fresh non-bailable warrant against cricketer-turned Congress MP Mohd Azharuddin in a cheque bounce case.

Details in a bit.

It's DMK senior leader MK Stalin's birthday today. Leaders and workers today greeted the party treasurer on his 60th .    

Stalin, a former Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, called on his father and party Chief M Karunanidhi at his Gopalapuram residence here to receive his blessings. Among those who wished him were DMK MPs including his sister Kanimozhi besides party MLAs.

This story has a certain creepy factor, literally and figuratively.

Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of giant Jurassic fleas that sucked the blood of ancient beasts more than 100m years ago. The oversized insects had long, serrated sucking tubes for piercing dinosaur hides, and used spines on their bodies and sharp claws on their legs to cling to the fur and feathers of their prey, reports the bbc.co.uk.

The insects resemble modern fleas in many respects, but grew to between five and ten times their size, with some females reaching more than 2cm long. Unlike modern fleas, they had yet to evolve specialised legs for jumping.

India's disappointingly slow economic growth rate of 6.1% in the last three months of 2011 has got people worried that there's more mediocrity to come. Mahindra Group Vice Chairman Anand Mahindra tweeted Wednesday it was "more than a wake-up call; it's a strident alarm bell warning us of imminent relegation to the ranks of global 'B-team' economies.'

B-team is a harsh assessment for India, which likes to think of itself as solidly in the premier league of emerging market nations. Slower growth, however, could be something India will have to live with.

More on the WSJ

Indian e-commerce retailer Flipkart.com this week entered the country's emerging digital content market with the launch of the music download service.

Read the WSJ report

An all-that-you-wanted-to-know about the face of the Gulberg Society massacare -- Zakia Jafri.

Zakia Jafri, a victim of the communal violence that swept Gujarat a decade ago, on Wednesday presented a petition to a local court demanding the disclosure of a report that she believes could shed light on the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the riots that killed over 1000 people.

Jafri's husband, a former Congress lawmaker, was burned alive when Hindu mobs attacked Gulberg Society, a housing complex inhabited mainly by Muslims in Ahmedabad.

More on the WSJ

Beautiful Thing, a book about Mumbai's notorious sex industry, and the news it brings about young women's lives "will break your heart several times over", Dwight Garner writes in the New York Times.

Written by Indian-born author Sonia Faleiro, the book has a "resonance that belies its compact size," Garner writes.

Leela, the dancer at the center of the book is a "genius of vulgarity,' he writes, and nearly every word out of her mouth is "is spit like a cartoon hornet."

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In rural Kashmir, "people will listen with great care to any man who tells them how he plans to bring roads, electricity, jobs and good schools to their villages, which have been impoverished by decades of strife", Manu Joseph writes in the International Herald Tribune.

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In the age of Lady Gaga's stunts and Nicki Minaj's multi-coloured hair, it's hard for young talent to stand out from the crowd. Short of dressing like a bank manager, there's almost nowhere left to go... but that hasn't stopped Ke$ha from trying. The 24-year-old has tweeted a picture of her new hairstyle, well, we say hair but it also involves metal studs.

The Daily Mail has the story.

Doctors should have the right to kill newborn babies because they are disabled, too expensive or simply unwanted by their mothers, an academic with links to Oxford University has claimed.

Francesca Minerva, a philosopher and medical ethicist, argues a young baby is not a real person and so killing it in the first days after birth is little different to aborting it in the womb.

Read the Daily Mail story.

German football authorities have promised to stamp out racism in the stands after an Israeli football player was subjected to Heil Hitler! salutes and sordid chants about the Holocaust at a training game.

Germany's Football Federation said it ''will not tolerate anti-Semitic or racist attacks'' after a small group of people verbally abused Israeli player Itay Shechter during a Kaiserslautern practice session.

According to the Daily Mail, the incident took place on Sunday, a day after relegation-threatened Kaiserslautern's 4-0 defeat at Mainz 05. The Israeli embassy in Berlin made a complaint about the abuse suffered by one of its citizens.

Foreign Minister S M Krishna said today that Pakistan was moving in the right direction by bringing economic content in political ties.  

Pakistan's cabinet yesterday approved a proposal to ease trade with India by switching to a negative list-based import regime and following it up with a most-favoured-nation (MFN) trade status by the year end. 

The move will increase the number of items Indian exporters can sell to Pakistan by nearly three times. India had given MFN status to Pakistan 16 years ago, though Ismalabad claims there are still several non-tariff barriers that its exporters face. 

Just in: The doctor accused of raping a deaf, mute patient at a Bankura hospital has been arrested. The physically challenged woman was allegedly raped by the junior doctor in the government hospital in Bankura district, West Bengal.

The accused Dr Ramkrishna Sarkar will be produced before the court today.

The victim was medical examined twice -- once in Bankura and another test in Kolkata, both of which confirmed rape.

The WB CM has refused to comment on the incident, so far. 

You wouldn't know the punk band was Japanese, a culture self-programmed for propriety. I can't write the chorus (sung in English) of the band's favorite song here, as my editor would first delete the offensive word and then report me to my superiors.

Let's just say it's an obscenity that begins with the letter "F" and rhymes with what hockey players call the vulcanized rubber disk that's hit into the goal.

The four-piece band screams the word over and over again to a Ramones tune, "Rockaway Beach," directed at the Tokyo Electric Power Company operator of the crippled Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant.

Read the story on cnn.com

North Korea has agreed to halt nuclear tests, long-range missile launches and enrichment activities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex in exchange for food aid from the United States, the State Department said yesterday.

Read the bbc report.

Emergency medical teams were on standby as an Italian liner with over 1,000 passengers and crew limped towards port in the Seychelles today, three days
after a fire disabled it in pirate-infested waters. 

Passengers have spent most of the time crowded on the Costa Allegra's decks fighting sweltering temperatures since an engine fire knocked out power on Monday, cutting electricity, air conditioning and shutting bathrooms. 

"We're here to provide water and psychological support because the passengers have been in a very stressful condition in the dark," said Red Cross worker Sandra Sabury, with the ship sighted off the coast and approaching the port.

Breathe easy: The oil ministry has ruled out a steep hike in petrol prices post polls.

The British government may not extradite former President Pervez Musharraf even if Pakistan obtains a Red Corner Notice against him from Interpol as the
two countries do not have an extradition treaty, according to a media report today. 

Britain does not usually hand over wanted persons to countries where the death penalty is enforced. If a country approaches the British government through an international organisation like Interpol, the request is processed by the British judicial system before a decision is taken, The News daily quoted its sources as saying.

Kerala today affirmed its commitment to build a new dam at Mullaperiyar in place of the 116-year old structure, saying its resolve to do so is based
on the principle of 'water for Tamil Nadu and safety for Kerala'.

Governor H R Bhardwaj, in his address to the legislative assembly to mark the start of budget session, said the issue relating to the dam over which Kerala has a long standing dispute with Tamil Nadu is the foremost crisis the UDF government has had to face since coming to power in May 2011.

The Prime Minister's Office has sought clarity on a Rs 57-crore project of Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi to establish an India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management at Dwarka in New Delhi as the Cabinet note did not contain comments from various union ministries.

Read the exclusive report on rediff.com.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's nephew has been produced in court today. He has been charged with assault on a public servant which is a non-bailable offence. He is also charged with wrongful restraint and using force to deter a public servant from duty.

Yesterday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Akash Banerjee was arrested along with two others on the charge of assaulting a police sergeant at Kidderpore in Kolkata, causing embarrassment to her.

Another fishermen row.

Eleven Indian fishermen have been taken into custody by the Maldivian Navy for allegedly crossing the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL),
officials said here today. 

"All are from Kanyakumari district. We are looking into this issue," District Collector S Nagarajan. The fishermen had put out to sea off the Kerala coast last week and were to return ashore on February 25, official sources said.

Sources speaking on the sidelines of a meeting between Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jeichi, said that new maritime cooperation would include participation in anti-piracy objectives, besides interaction and cooperation between navy and coast guard officials.

The sources further revealed that Chinas top priority would be to promote and increase mutual trust, bilateral cooperation and friendship with India.

According to sources, China has also expressed a willingness to offer India assistance in building high-speed bullet trains.

China has the world's longest high-speed rail network with about 9,676 km of routes in service as of June 2011, including 3,515 km of rail lines with top speeds of 300 km/hr by 2012, China was expected to have more high-speed railway track than the rest of the world combined.

Tobacco-to-consumer goods giant ITC Ltd today said its chief Y C Deveshwar has sold shares worth about Rs 5.8 crore, while two other directors have also sold shares worth about Rs 2.7 crore through the open market.

In a regulatory filing this morning, ITC said that YC Deveshwar, Chairman and Wholetime Director, has sold about 2.79 lakh shares for about Rs 5.78 crore.

Besides, Wholetime Director K N Grant has also sold 1.25 lakh shares for about Rs 2.58 crore, while 5,000 shares have been sold from the holding of non-executive director S H Khan, held by his dependent (wife) for Rs 10.16 lakh. 

Just in: The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to provide information on the number of homosexuals and how many of them are HIV affected in India.

Details awaited.

The Communist Party shows no sign of letting up in its battle with religion. Indeed, for Buddhists at least, things are getting worse.

Read the report on the Diplomat.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that Pakistan could face damaging consequences if it goes ahead with the proposed Iran-Pakistan pipeline project.  

"We have been very clear in pointing out the consequences of building this pipeline,' Clinton said while addressing the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations in Washington.  

Clinton's remarks came in response to a Congressman asking why the budget request for the State Department included a one billion dollar request to help Pakistan address its energy problems.  

Clinton said that they supported the alternative of a pipeline via Turkmenistan.

Delhi Police's Crime Branch will soon initiate an investigation into the death of a 66-year-old man, who was allegedly pushed by a constable during an
argument with his son in south-west Delhi two days ago. 

Following the incident, police had yesterday handed over the investigations to Crime Branch from local police.

The deceased Anil Kumar was travelling in a car with his son Mohit Arora (32), both residents of Geeta Colony in east Delhi, when the incident took place on Tuesday night in Delhi Cantt area. 

According to the victim's family, Anil Kumar felt uneasy while travelling and Mohit had stopped the car to fetch some water. They claimed he approached police constable Vikram Singh for help but he was on phone and ignored the request.

Mohit then fetched water himself and on his return entered into an argument with the policemen. The father tried to intervene and was allegedly pushed away by the constable. Kumar fell on the ground and lost consciousness, the family alleged. The elderly man was rushed to Safdarjung Hospital where he was declared brought dead. 

"Medical authorities on preliminary examination have not indicated any external injuries on the body of the deceased," police said. 

The Chinese Foreign Ministry had earlier objected to Antony's visit to attend Arunachal Pradesh's silver jubilee Statehood Day celebrations at Itanagar.

Spokesman Hong Lei had said that India should refrain from taking any action that could complicate the border issue.

"I feel it is most unfortunate and, at the same time, really objectionable," Antony told reporters at New Delhi on February 28.

More on the bilateral talks between India and China.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jeichi is in Delhi on a two-day visit and will hold discussions with his Indian counterpart SM Krishna today. In fact, the two are in a meeting right now.

The Ministry of External Affairs said bilateral and international issues will be discussed as will the next month's BRICS summit, which will be attended by Chinese President Hu Jintao, reports IBN Live.

Jeichi reached India on Wednesday and he will hold talks with the Indian leadership over a host of bilateral and international issues during his two-day visit.

Significantly, the visit comes in the backdrop of recent acrimony over Defence Minister AK Antony's visit to Arunachal Pradesh to attend statehood celebrations. China had asked India not to complicate the boundary issue after defence minister AK Antony visited the state.

About a dozen Tibetans, including women, today staged a protest outside the Hyderabad House in New Delhi, objecting to the border talks between India and China claiming that Beijing cannot discuss the issue before giving freedom to Tibet. 

Draped in Tibetan flags and carrying anti-China placards, the protesters assembled in front of the Hyderabad House near India Gate in the morning where External Affairs Minister S M Krishna was holding bilateral talks with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi. 

Anticipating protests, a number of police personnel were deployed in the area and they immediately detained the demonstrators who were shouting slogans demanding freedom for Tibet.

Software giant Microsoft has unveiled an incomplete version of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system for public preview.  

The new software is designed to work on tablets and on traditional computers, and will replace Microsoft Windows 7.  

Windows 8 features an entirely new interface, called Metro, which borrows heavily from Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, as well as a slightly updated version of the conventional Windows 7 desktop version that runs in a separate mode.  

Microsoft has also redesigned the traditional 'Start' button.

Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh has completed the second cycle of chemotherapy, continuing his recovery from a rare germ cell cancer in Boston, United States.

"Second cycle has finished today! Had a bleomycin shot feeling weak but I'm sure tom will be a better day ! My next scan dated on 7th march," the 30-year-old left-hander tweeted.

Yuvraj had last month stated that the tumour between his lungs is almost out of his system. Yuvraj, who has been in Boston since last month, is expected to be back on the field in the first week of May, according to his doctor.

Tatas to bid for British telecom giant CWW (The Times of India)
Tata Communications Ltd is eyeing Cable & Wireless Worldwide Plc a London-listed telecom giant with origins in the British imperialist days. Read

Asia Cup squad: Sachin Tendulkar retained after talks with selectors (The Times of India)
The decision to retain Sachin Tendulkar for Asia Cup was taken after the cricketer himself informed the selectors that he was 'available' for the tournament. Read

2 fishermen killed, 3 missing after boat hits unidentified ship (The Times of India)
Two fishermen were killed and three others were missing after their boat hit an unidentified ship at sea 12 nautical miles off Manakkodam Light House in Alleppey district. Read

Police uncover plot to target Delhi (The Hindu)

Two suspected members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, who were planning to target crowded places in New Delhi, have been arrested on the outskirts of the city. Read

Kollam: Two fishermen killed, 2 hurt in ship-boat collision (Hindustan Times)

"Our law enforcing agencies are in the hunt to locate the ship that hit the fishing boat, and from what we have been able to gather is that the incident took close to 2 am today," Kerala fisheries minister K Babu. Read

Govt begins 5% stake sale in ONGC through one-day auction (Hindustan Times)
Shares of ONGC today began trading with modest gains in a weak market, as the government began sale of its 5% stake in the public sector energy giant through a one-day auction process on the bourses. Read

Koodankulam: NGOs facing action say no reason given (Indian Express)
Home ministry has frozen foreign contribution accounts of 2 NGOs; another group under scanner. Read