Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot in the head by the Taliban, has arrived in England and could be in the hospital 'for weeks, if not months', according to a report on CNN.

The 14-year-old arrived in UK for treatment today. Malala was flown from Pakistan on board an air ambulance provided by the United Arab Emirates and accompanied by a full medical team.

On arrival at Birmingham Airport, she was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital by ambulance, travelling at a slow speed because of the nature of her wounds.

The Jammu and Kashmir government this evening decided to postpone the general elections of chairmen of block development councils by bringing forth an ordinance, reports rediff.com's Mukhtar Ahmad.  

"The panchayat elections were held in 2011 which was a historic milestone in the democratic history of the state after more than three decades. About 80 per cent of the electorate exercised their right to franchise in this process. In the last one year the government took series of actions to empower panchayats and strengthen the Panchayati Raj system in the state by giving an effective role to the elected representatives at the grass root level,' an official statement said this evening.

"The state cabinet which met today decided that to strengthen the resolve of the government for a robust Panchayati Raj system, certain changes have to be incorporated in the Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati Raj Act, thereby creating a steel-frame of democracy at the grass root level. In order to bring these changes in a transparent manner after due diligence and deliberations with all the stake holders, the cabinet here today decided to bring an ordinance for cancellation of general elections of chairmen of block development councils," the statement added.

An office-bearer of the Chhattisgarh Youth Congress has alleged the local police had beaten him up for asking a question to Chief Minister Raman Singh at a farmers' meeting held in Raipur on October 7.

Youth Congress general secretary for Raipur Lok Sabha constituency Anwar Hussain, 30, charged he was bashed up by the police for putting a question to chief minister after the farmers' meeting held, leading to a rupture in his left ear drum and he was experiencing excruciating pains in his stomach and back since the incident.

"I tried to hand over a memorandum to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar attending a programme on October 7. Since he (Pawar) did not accept my petition, I asked the chief minister during the programme organised by Indira Gandhi Agricultural university about the reason behind an anomaly between production of paddy and actual area under cultivation," Hussain told PTI.

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti on Monday said it will protest in Hyderabad tomorrow against the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the city.  

 

TRS MLAs and other party leaders will organise the protest at Indira Park in Hyderabad, the party said in a release. TRS will protest against the delay in forming a separate Telangana state.

Days after Rahul Gandhi's controversial comments on drug abuse in Punjab, a senior Congress leader today came out in his support, claiming that the virility of men from Punjab has gone down drastically due to drug abuse and alcoholism.        

 

CWC member Jagmeet Singh Brar claimed that the data compiled by a World Health Organisation Committee has brought to the fore the findings that "the sperm count of men from Punjab has drastically gone down, thanks to drug abuse, alchoholism."        

 

"The big, macho Punjabi male is losing his vigour and that too fast," he said in a statement, claiming that the Medical Superintendent and Head of Department of Pathhology of the Dayananad Medical College, Ludhiana confirmed it.        

 

He also said that a leading University in Punjab, whose Vice Chancellor is appointed by the Chief Minister of Punjab, has after a survey claimed that 70 per cent of Punjab men are either drug addicts or suffering from alchohol problem.        

 

Rahul Gandhi's comment in Chandigarh on October 11 that seven out of 10 youths in Punjab have a drug problem had triggered a controversy with ruling Akali Dal terming the statement "immature"

The government today said it is not in favour of hiking diesel price in the immediate future even as the current retail rate is nearly Rs 12 per litre lower than its actual cost.        

 

"There is no proposal to increase diesel prices with us at present...," Petroleum Minister S Jaipal Reddy told reporters here on the sidelines of a FICCI conference on fuel retailing.         

 

"Whatever we do, we will have to bear the under recovery burden. Whatever be the under recoveries (of the oil marketing companies), we are not in favour of raising (diesel) prices," he said when asked about the huge subsidy burden on diesel, kerosene and domestic LPG.         

 

Public sector oil marketing companies currently lose Rs 11.65 per litre on diesel, Rs 33.93 per litre on kerosene sold through PDS and Rs 468.50 per 14.2-kg domestic cooking gas cylinder.

The BBC is struggling to contain a crisis sparked by allegations of serial sexual abuse against the late Jimmy Savile, a longtime children's television host. Dozens of women have come forward to say that Savile, who died in October 2011 aged 84, sexually assaulted them when they were as young as 13. London's Metropolitan Police, which is leading a national investigation, says it has identified 40 potential victims.  Read

For Bhalchandra Mungekar, ex-vice chancellor of Bombay University and ex-member of the Planning Commission, the exercise of looking into allegations of caste discrimination faced by scheduled caste students at Vardhman Medical College, Delhi, has been extremely disturbing. Read

Indian tiger reserves that opened their doors this month say a recent ban on tourism aimed at protecting the big cats has sharply hurt revenues and puts a cloud over their future. Read

And yes, as expected, union steel minister Beni Prasad Verma, is now singing a different tune. Verma had defended law minister Salman Khurshid in the Trust's scandal saying the alleged fraud of Rs 71 lakh was "too small an amount for a minister. "It would have been serious had the allegation been of a larger amount."

Verma now does a turnaround to this bizarre defence and says that "even Re 1 is corruption."

Jha's 'murder' had led to vandalism and arson in Bihar's Madhubani district for the second consecutive day on Saturday even as a flustered state government transferred top officials and ordered a judicial probe into alleged police inaction on Friday's firing on protesters that killed two youths.

Just in: Prashant Kumar Jha (17), whose mysterious disappearance had sparked off violence in Madhubani in Bihar, has been found along with girlfriend in Delhi, DGP Abhayanand said.

A headless body believed to be Jha's had been recovered on October 2. While Jhas family identified the body as that of the boy whose missing report they had lodged on September 8, the police said it seemed to be of a 27-year-old mans. The police finally handed over Jhas body to his family on Saturday.

For the first time in two decades, the elite National Security Guard (NSG) has pulled out its commandos -- numbering around 900--from guarding high risk VIPs, scaling down its security duties.

The NSG, according to sources, is now guarding the least number of protectees -- 15 VVIPs/VIPs--after a long time following the de-induction of a large number of commandos and redeploying them for operations for which they were meant for.

The commando force has shifted around 900 of its commandos rendering VIP security duties for training in specialist counter-terror operations as part of its original charter, an official said today.

One woman gets raped every 22 minutes in India. One child gets raped in every 76 minutes. Only one in every four accused in the crime gets convicted. Read

In pictures: The under construction light aircraft carrier Vikramaditya intended to replace aircraft carrier Vikrant. 

 "They were drunk' I pleaded with one of them. I said, 'You are from my village. That makes you my brother.' He said I was not his sister and that he had no sisters,' recalls 16-year-old Seema (name changed), the Class XI student raped by 12 men on a Saturday afternoon in early September. Four of the 12 men who attacked her were from her village. Read more

The Supreme Court today refused to stay the FDI in retail sector, but said the government policy suffers from lack of legal sanction which could be cured by amending the regulations in the Foreign Exchange Management Act by the RBI.

A bench of justices R M Lodha and A R Dave, said the policy suffers from "curable" irregularity as the RBI has not amended the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) regulations which should have been done before the Centre issued its notification. It allowed the Centre two weeks time to get the regulation amended by the RBI saying it is a legal requirement before implementing the policy.

If regulatory oversight is lacking in everything from realty to banking, it is preposterous to exhort aam admi to go the courts. Read Sucheta Dalal's piece. 

I'd love to do a music video with Shah Rukh: In conversation with Chris Gayle, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rohit Sharma and Umar Akmal. On Open Magazine. Read 

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was the last of the 2012 Nobel awards to be announced, reports AP.

It's not technically a Nobel Prize, because unlike the five other awards it wasn't established in the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist also known for inventing dynamite.

The economics prize was created by the Swedish central bank in Nobel's memory in 1968, and has been handed out with the other prizes ever since. Each award is worth 8 million Swedish kronor, or about $1.2 million.


Also read: Has the Nobel become a parody of itself?

Economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the 2012 economics Nobel prize today for research on how to match different economic agents such as students for schools or even organ donors with patients.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which made the award, said the 8 million crown ($1.2 million) prize recognized "the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design".

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The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to US duo Alvin E Roth of Harvard University and Lloyd S Shapley of UCLA. 

This is what Congress senior leader Digvijaya Singh had to say on the IAC-Salman Khurshid battle. "It seems Arvind Kejriwal wants that the investigation should be carried out the way he decides...that he should be given the charge of the investigation. Na khata na bahi, jo Kejriwal kahe wahi sahi (No documents, no papers but whatever Kejriwal says is right)," Singh told reporters.

JD-U chief Sharad Yadav also criticised Kejriwal and India Against Corruption (IAC) for saying that they have no faith in government probe into the alleged financial misappropriation in Law Minister Salman Khurshid's trust.

"They (Kejriwal and his Team) cast doubts on everything. They have no trust in any court, any probe agency. The country is not made by targeting individuals. UP government already ordered a probe but you say that you don't trust a government probe. Then what will you do?", Yadav asked.

More on IAC suspending their agitation. Arvind Kejriwal says that IAC will expose BJP president Nitin Gadkari in the next three or four days and another politician (unnamed) on Wednesday at 5 pm. Gadkari must be girding his loins for the big fight ahead and every other politician will be cleaning their cupboards of skeletons. 

Few modern cities can owe as much to those who came from other places '" the so-called 'outsiders' '" as Bombay. In some sense, nearly everybody who lives in the city is an outsider, or belongs to a family that was once regarded as being outsiders. And yet, without these 'outsiders', Bombay would be nothing.

Columnist Vir Sanghvi's ode to Mumbai. Read

And Mr Sanghvi on Kolkata: What 'Pujo' means to a Bengali. Read

Now, a Khap leader blames fast food for rapes. Read

Just as India Against Corruption got the government scurrying for cover, it announced that it has suspended its 'andolan' but not ending it altogether. The body will go to villages and continue their fight from Farrukhabad, said a spokesperson to CNN IBN. 

Is this the road to romance? Delhi's urban singles bond over stunning vintage cars.. Read more.

Salman Khurshid got involved in an unedifying and undignified slanging match with the IAC and India Today groups. His press conference on October 14, which was totally unnecessary, was a spectacle of outbursts of anger and intimidation unworthy of him. Read B Raman's column for rediff.com.

Another bizarre defence, this time from the Harayana government on the spate of rapes in the sate. The state government says that people in the state haven't shown any social or mental progress leading to a rise in rapes. The state has progressed economically, but Haryanvis not mentally developed. 

Beni Prasad Verma, union minister for steel, defends law minister Salman Khurshid in the Trust's scandal saying the alleged fraud of Rs 71 lakh is too small an amount for a minister. "It would have been serious had the allegation been of a larger amount."

That's probably the most bizarre defence Khurshid has got.

Verma added that Kejriwal should not bark daily like a dog.

Really cute video of a little girl rebuking her brother (2) for spitting at another boy. Watch

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, which last week opened bookings for a new version of its Alto small car, expects to get a total of 10,000 orders by Tuesday, said Mayank Pareek, the company's managing executive officer for sales and marketing. Read

Apparent patronage being given to infamous former legislator and Taufir Diara carnage accused Ranvir Yadav, choice of hosts at places like Nawada and Aurangabad, and efforts being made to bring Gaya mayor Vibha Devi Yadav and Zila Parishad vice chairman Sheetal Yadav to the JD(U) fold, tend to suggest that chief minister Nitish Kumar is wooing the Yadavas to widen his support base and challenge 'Bade Bhai' Lalu Prasad on his own turf. Read

... So then, Mr Khan, why are you sounding so stale the last few days? Yes, I'm talking about the horrifying attack on Malala Yousafzai and the equally horrifying reaction from your party rank and file. What is clear is that you are not clear on this issue. And your lack of clarity has led to massive confusion within your supporters. As a result, something very serious, very ominous, and very dangerously disappointing is happening.

Read the open letter to Imran Khan

Another read... The world held its breath as stuntman Felix Baumgartner ascended to the edge of space, then slowly emerged from his tiny capsule before plunging into the unknown. Read

Hours after Arvind Kejriwal's press conference today, the Congress has finally reacted. Ministers Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ambika Soni said there was "No question of the government distancing itself from Law Minister Salman Khurshid."  

India Against Corruption, led by activist Arvind Kejriwal, has posed five questions for Salman Khurshid over alleged fraud by a trust run by the Union law minister and his wife Louise. Khurshid is yet to answer any of them. Read

Has the Nobel become a parody of itself? Read

Cancer survivor Yuvraj Singh smashed 208 on his return to first-class cricket to stake a claim on Monday in India's team for next month's Test series against England.

The left-hander hit 33 boundaries and three sixes for North Zone before being dismissed on the second day of the four-day Duleep Trophy semi-final against Central Zone in Hyderabad. Read

Also see the report on rediff.com

Actor Rani Mukherjee's brother Raja was arrested after a television actress said he had molested her after calling her to a meeting in which she was to narrate a script for a project. Raja was arrested in suburban Versova on Sunday after the actress filed a complaint alleging that he had attempted to molest her in his car. Read more here.

Rahul Gandhi swept into Chandigarh on Thursday and declared that the border state of Punjab has a drug crisis. He said that 7 out of every 10 youths in the state suffered from drug problems -- a remark that brought swift criticism from several political opponents in the state. Read

A replica of the Taj Mahal is set to be built in Dubai. Except that this version of the world-famous monument of love will be bigger, and come with a hotel and as well as a shopping area. Read

Two weeks ago, robbers held up an ATM cash van in South Delhi, shot a guard accompanying the money, and made off with the equivalent of a million dollars.The crime was unusually daring for Delhi, in that it took place in a well-off area full of security guards in broad daylight, leading some city residents to wonder whether the city was seeing the start of a new wave of more violent crime. The full report here.

A Delhi court today ordered further probe into the 2008 cash-for-vote scam to "unearth the hidden truth" in the case in which Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh is also an accused.

Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal directed police to trace the source of money and conduct the probe from all possible angles and file an additional charge sheet in the case within six weeks. The order of the court came on the plea of BJP MP and accused Faggan Singh Kulaste for a probe into the matter to find out the "real beneficiaries".

The economy will turn the corner in the next six months as the deceleration of the past several quarters has been arrested, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said today.

"It is our hope that in the second half of the year, which has begun just now, many of the measures taken by the government in the recent past to revive investor confidence will lead to a turnaround setting in in the second half," Ahluwalia said.

Confident of better GDP numbers in the second half, Montek said, "In the first six months of the current year, GDP growth is around 5.5 per cent...and I think the second half will be better. Somewhere around 6 (per cent) is a reasonable basis to start working from. It could be a little better, it could be a little worse." Basing his optimism to the pick up in the August IIP numbers as also in the recent PMI surveys, Ahluwalia said there are signals of an up-tick.

The Uttar Pradesh Police's Economic Offences Wing today started collecting documents in connection with its probe into alleged financial irregularities in a trust run by Union Minister Salman Khurshid.

"EOW teams are collecting documents at various levels including state, divisional and district headquarters as a part of the investigation," Director General EOW, Subrat Tripathi said.

Tripathi said it was neither a raid nor a search. "How can we call it a raid or search when documents are being provided willingly," the DG said.

The Uttar Pradesh government had directed the Economic Offences Wing to probe into charges of misappropriation of funds by Zakir Hussain Trust run by Khurshid and his wife Louise.

Four teams, three under the Kanpur sector and one under the Meerut sector, were constituted for probe in 17 districts where irregularities are suspected. The inquiry is crossing the preliminary stage as order for the probe was issued on July 3, Tripathi had said yesterday.

Charging the ruling Congress Party of running away from investigation on every scandal taking place in the country, the BJP today said Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid, who is facing allegations of forging signature of officials to benefit the Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, should tender his resignation from the Manmohan Singh-led UPA II Government so that a free and fair investigation is conducted into the matter.

BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman alleged that the Congress Party is at the moment not ready to give a befitting reply to anybody''s question. "In today's scenario, the Congress is running away from inquiry on every scandal. The BJP believes that the Congress is running away from inquiry on every scandal that is taking place. They are not ready to answer to anybody''s questions," she said.

Sitharaman further said that a fair, free and open trial or investigation much before the trial couldn''t be conducted if the Law Minister continues to remain in office.

In a major breakthrough in the Naga peace process, the Centre has secured a written commitment from the separatist NSCN (IM) that it will accept the Indian Constitution. According to sources, the Naga group has also recognised the impracticality of redrawing state boundaries in the interest of peace in the Northeast. Read

When Team Anna disbanded last month, anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and his chief lieutenant, Arvind Kejriwal, took different paths: Mr. Kejriwal announced his foray into electoral politics while Mr. Hazare made it clear he'd stay out of them. Read

On the Guardian: A beautiful wedding and honeymoon, then, a month later, a knock on the door and the news no woman wants to hear... Read

Social Welfare minister Mukul Wasnik says the government will not scrap the funds given to Salman Khurshid's Dr Zakir Hussain memorial Trust. Wasnik says the money was given on merit and while no fresh inflow would be made, all the grants received so far, would stay. .

The trust is registered as an NGO and has been receiving substantial grants from several ministries of the government. However, the Social Justice and Empowerment ministry has for the time being stopped fresh grants to the Trust. 

Just in: RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Lok Janshakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan have been detained in Patna. Detials awaited. The RJD, LJP and the Left have been protesting against the death of two people in police firing in Patna.

Two people were killed and over a dozen others injured on October 12 when police opened fire to control violent protestors in the district headquarter town of Madhubani in Bihar. Two youths died on the spot after being hit by bullets and over a dozen were injured during the clash with police.

Buzz in New Delhi is that IAC key aides Shanti and Prashant Bhushan have distanced themselves from the alleged scams of the Trust run by Salman Khurshid. Speculation is also rife that another expose by Kejriwal tomorrow may be delayed as India Against Corruption wants to focus on the Salman Khurshid issue and will not rest till the minister resigns.

The BJP and some Union Ministers have heaved a sigh of relief over the IAC's preoccupation as they do not want him to probe details of land purchases in three southern states by their kin.

So far, the Economic Offences Wing has conducted raids t 16 places in UP of many NGOs including Salman Khurshid's Dr Zakir Hussain memorial Trust to probe the alleged irregularities. This raid is to crosscheck the details and to pick up
papers from the Trust premises.

Congress spokesperson Digvijaya Singh responds to the Arvind Kejriwal's allegations today that the beneficiaries in Salman Khurshid's trust were frauds. 

Digvijaya says, "Kejriwal is crossing his limits and he is doing it just to occupy political space. There is no question of Salman Khurshid resigning and in case, Khurshid has asked for a probe. There is no quid pro quo with the Samajwadi Party." 

UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav says his government is waiting for a report on the probe into the Salman Khurshid 'scam'. Meanwhile, raids are on 16 districts of UP in connection with the case.

India does foreign policy on a shoestring. That shoestring is called the ministry of external affairs. I hope that as the son of a foreign service officer, i can say that and get away with it. The Indian Foreign Service is so radically understaffed it is shocking. And nothing much is about to change. Read the opinion piece on the TOI. 

Moving on from Kejriwal's presser...

With a good mix of experts and exciting home-grown talents, the Indian teams, playing in the ongoing Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa, were expected to start their campaigns with a bang. But after their opening matches, it will be fair to say that they have proved second best to their rivals from other countries. Read

Kejriwal takes over. "The UP government is in cahoots with the Salman Khurshid to cover up the scam. But who will probe the allegations now? Mulayam Singh is facing allegations in the Supreme Court in a disproportionate assets. Who will be against Mulayam Singh in court? Yes, Salman Khurshid," he tutors the crowd.

And draws this conclusion: "How can we expect Akhilesh Yadav to act against Salman Khurshid, when the law minister is in charge of his father's prosecution?"

Kejriwal has now handed over the mic to a 'witness'. He identifies himself as Pankaj and says he never got any benefits from the Trust even though he has been listed as a recipient of a hearing aid.
Kejriwal says he wants a SIT probe into the scam.   

Kejriwal's allegations have broadened to include the Congress. He says the Congress is involved in Khurshid's scam. "Is it a Salman Khurshid NGO or a Congress NGO," asks Kejriwal.

The IAC activist says that a few names that are listed as beneficiaries in Salman Khurshid's trust remain untraceable and other 'beneficiaries' are not even physically challenged.  "People who were to benefit from NGO have in fact never received anything from it," says Kejriwal.

Khurshid denied any wrongdoing by the Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, of which he is president and his wife Louise is project director, and said he would pursue legal action against a TV news channel which first aired allegations of financial misappropriation in the running of the trust.

Back to the Arvind Kejriwal press conference. Referring to Salman Khurshid's press conference yesterday, Kejriwal says the testimony of the disabled person who said he had received aid from the trust cannot be believed just because he was presented as such by Khurshid. But IAC would let the matter pass. 

More world news: Austrian Felix Baumgartner has become the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound, reaching a maximum velocity of 833.9mph (1,342km/h). In jumping out of a balloon 128,100ft (24 miles; 39km) above New Mexico, the 43-year-old also smashed the record for the highest ever freefall. He said he almost aborted the dive because his helmet visor fogged up. More here.

Details of the chopper crash..

A Chetak helicopter of the Navy, carrying two officers and a sailor, today crashed at Dabolim airport while landing and caught fire, officials said. The fate of the three men onboard the chopper was not immediately known. The rotor of the helicopter, which had flown from Mumbai to Dabloim, broke off while landing, Navy sources said. The chopper then caught fire, they said. Civilian flights from the airport were likely to be delayed as the chopper had crashed on the runway, they said.

An agitated Kejriwal still addressing the press conference at Jantar Mantar.

Meanwhile, an update of world news. 

Norodom Sihanouk, the former Cambodian king who was a key figure through decades of upheaval, has died.The former king died at a hospital in the Chinese capital, Beijing, after having a heart attack. He had been in poor health for several years.Sihanouk, who was 89, came to the throne in 1941 and led Cambodia to independence from France in 1953. Readthe report on the bbc.

IAC activist Arvind Kejriwal is now holding a press conference at Jantar Mantar on the Salman Khurshid issue. Khurshid along with his wife, Louise, had held a press meet in the Capital on Sunday where he produced pictures and documents, saying 34 camps were held by the Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, headed by him and run by his wife, in 2009 and 2010 across several districts in the state. The trust is meant to help people with special needs in Uttar Pradesh.

Kejriwal said Khurshid has shown a dated picture and the 'evidence' is false. He says Khurshid has passed off a 2010 picture as a 2009 picture. 

Just in: Three people were killed in a Navy chopper crash at Dabolim airport, Goa. 

Teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, who was seriously injured in an assassination attempt by the Taliban last week, was today sent to Britain as she needs prolonged medical care, including the repair of damaged bones of the skull.

The 14-year-old was flown to Britain this morning in an air ambulance provided by the United Arab Emirates. She had been in the intensive care unit of the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi since Thursday.

The decision to shift her outside Pakistan was made by a board of civil and military doctors that has been supervising Malala's treatment, a military spokesman said. She is being sent to a British centre that can provide "integrated care to children who have sustained severe injury".

Kejriwal also questioned why Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is silent on the episode."Why is prime minister silent over the issue? Does he think Khurshid need to resign?" he asked.Law minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday admitted the need for probing "forgery" of signatures of an Uttar Pradesh government official but denied allegations of embezzlement by his NGO.

Addressing a crowded press conference at his residence, Khurshid produced documents and pictures to prove that camps were held in Uttar Pradesh to provide hearing aids and tricycles to the disabled. He said he will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to "share his experiences". 

Arvind Kejriwal is expected to produce fresh evidence against law minister Salman Khurshid today, whom he has accused of forgery and embezzlement of funds through an NGO with which he and his wife are associated.

"We will produce fresh evidence against Salman Khurshid at 11am on Monday," Kejriwal said after Khurshid produced pictures and documents to prove camps were held for the disabled in Uttar Pradesh, for which the funds were utilised.

A correspondent from Delhi reports: Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid and his wife Louise will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at 11.30 am with documents to prove that allegations of fraud against the NGO run by them are inaccurate.

The BSE benchmark Sensex today fell by almost 75 points in opening trade due to increased selling by participants ahead of September WPI inflation data and second quarter earnings by Reliance Industries. 

The CBI has registered two new cases in the coal allocation scam against two companies -- Green Infra and Kamala Steel. CBI sleuths are also carrying out searches in 16 locations across six cities.

The India Today group, which is under attack from Law Minister Salman Khurshid, has said that it stands by the report carried by its TV network, alleging financial irregularities in a trust run by Salman Khurshid and his wife Louise.

An anti-Obama documentary,directed by an Indian American filmmaker, which became one of the most successful documentaries of all time, has now been made available online and on DVDs.        

An under-construction gurdwara,which was set to serve Portland metro area's largest Sikh community in Washington state, was destroyed in a massive fire.

Expressing concern over complaints of corruption in MGNREGA projects, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the government has decided to conduct audit of ten per cent of villages on a random basis every year.      

Naxals on Sunday torched four vehicles and attacked a police team, injuring two police personnel, in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.       

In related news, nearly 25 members of the India Against Corruption were detained in Patna on Monday, while they were demanding the resignation of Salman Khurshid. 

The Congress on Monday ruled out the possibility of Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid resigning from his post over charges of fraud by the Dr Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, which is run by him and his wife Louise.