Dense fog claimed five lives in accidents in different parts of the state, even as light to moderate rains occurred at some places. 

Russia today launched a counter-terrorism operation after six bodies riddled with bullets were found in a region bordering that of Winter Olympic host city of Sochi, just weeks before the start of the Games.

Union Minister Vayalar Ravi today ruled out any move to make provisions for Indians living abroad to vote in elections from outside the country. "As it is today even I can not vote by postal ballot.

That is not the system today. If I am in Delhi, I can't vote in Kerala elections from here. I will to go to the booth where my name is registered to vote. I am afraid it is not possible," the Overseas Indian Affairs Minister told a gathering of NRIs at Pravasi Bhartiya Divas.

He also added that it is for Election Commission to decide as it is the constitutional authority for election-related affairs.

Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla had a close shave when his helicopter made an emergency landing after it "began to yaw" or lurch to one side.

The heir to the British throne was travelling with Camillaand four others to the Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival in Walesin May last year when his Sikorsky S-76C helicopter had toland at Denham aerodrome west of London, a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said today.

The AAIB said the fault was traced to the splitting of ametal ball within a system that helps control the helicopter's steering.

The Centre does not have any plan to rehabilitate expatriates returning to India, Minister for Overseas Indians Vayalar Ravi today said.

He was replying to a specific question from a participant in Pravasi Bharatiya Divas here who sought to know whether the union government had programmes for rehabilitating the returnees affected by 'nitaquat' policy in Saudi Arabia.

"The government of India does not have any plan to rehabilitate the persons.... There is no programme for the rehabilitation for anybody coming from any part of the world to India," Ravi told the gathering.

BJP today welcomed the Election Commission's decision to abort its proposed tie-up with internet giant Google, saying it was not in nation's interest to go ahead with the proposal due to security concerns.

In a memorandum submitted to Chief Election Commission V S Sampath in the presence of Election Commissioner H S Brahma, BJP leader Tarun Vijay handed over documents pertaining to a complaint by the Survey of India against Google which is being probed by the CBI.

The BJP Rajya Sabha MP said the Survey of India has raised strong objections on mapping activities of Google in the country where the US-based internet company has obtained restricted data which attracts penal action as it is a serious violation of Indian laws

As Aam Aadmi Party's popularity surges ahead of Lok Sabha elections, some senior party leaders tipped to contest elections have decided to concentrate on the party's strategies rather than plunging into electoral battle.

Party leaders Yogendra Yadav and Anjali Damania said they would prefer to work for the party rather than contest elections.

The party's Maharashtra unit convener Anjali Damania, who was tipped to contest elections against former BJP president Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur, has declined to enter the fray on the ground that she wants to concentrate on party activities.

"There was an opinion in the party that Arvind (Kejriwal) contested against Sheila (Dixit), Kumar Vishwas will contest against Rahul (Gandhi), so even I should contest against (Nitin) Gadkari.

According to sources, veteran Bengali actress Suchitra Sen's health has turned critical. Sen is suffering from a respiratory tract infection and is admitted in Kolkata's Bellview Hospital for the part few weeks.  

 

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamkata Banerjee, who visited the ailing actress three days ago, is expected to pay her a visit again tonight.   Doctors have confirmed that the medical condition of the 82-year-old actress has been fluctuating.

The Election Commission has decided not to pursue its proposed tie-up with internet giant Google after concerns over national security were raised from several quarters, including major parties. US-based Google had earlier this week made a formal presentation to the Election Commission proposing a tie-up with it for voter facilitation services ahead of Lok Sabha elections.  

Stepping up pressure, the BJP today demanded the Prime Minister's resignation after the Centre admitted before the Supreme Court that something went wrong with coal blocks allocations. "The Attorney General has accepted that something major was wrong in the coal block allocations. He has confided in the Supreme Court that there were serious irregularities in the allotments.

"The onus is now on the Prime Minister as he held the coal portfolio from 2006 to 2009 when the allocations were made. We reiterate that he should own up his responsibility and resign," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.

Just in: Election Commission decides against tie-up with Google for poll information services. 

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government's helpline in Delhi for complaints against corrupt officers received over 4,000 calls in its first seven hours.

The deluge led to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asking for staff manning the helpline to be tripled by tomorrow. Citizens have been asked to dial the helpline number, (011) 27357169 between 8 am and 10 pm, for any corruption complaint.

The calls are sifted and only the genuine complaints are transferred to a team of 15 experts, who advise callers on conducting a sting operation.

The Akhilesh Yadav government gives a Rs 1 crore tax subsidy to Bollywood films shot in UP. 

The non-charitable foundation 'Being Human', being run by Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, on Thursday donated Rs 25 lakh to Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College on behalf of the stars who performed in Uttar Pradesh's annual fair 'Saifai Mahotsav'.

Notably, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and other stars are facing ire over participating in the Mahotsav while people were dying from severe cold in Muzaffarnagar relief camps.

Two dozen other small and big actors performed as well at the event which has become a major attraction for the people of the region and a bone of contention among political parties.

Meanwhile, actress Madhuri Dixit took to Twitter to defend the decision to perform at the Mahotsav and wrote, "As artists and celebrities, we believe in using our reach to help others through drawing attention to the needs of the day.(sic)" -- Zee News

Just in: The Tehrik-e-Taliban (Pakistan) has claimed responsibility for the attack on Karachi police chief Chaudhry Aslam. 

And in a first, Delhi CM announces that he and his ministers will sit on the road outside the secretariat every Saturday between 9:30 am and 11 am to hear public grievances.

In what will come as a mandate to the BJP, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says the party must take the AAP challenge very seriously.  He said the BJP should make its politics more inclusive and participatory.

Yesterday, Senior Supreme Court lawyer and Aam Aadmi Party leader Prashant Bhushan hit out at the RSS and the BJP following the attack on AAP office in Kaushambhi.

Bhushan said the rise of AAP has created panic in the BJP and the Sangh Parivar.

Senior IAS officer Sanjoy Kumar Srivastava today assumed charge as Chief Secretary of Delhi Government. 56-year-old Srivastava succeeded Deepak Mohan Spolia who had been made Chief Secretary in December 2012. Srivastava, a 1980-batch IAS officer of Union Territory cadre, was working as Special Secretary and Financial Adviser in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Earlier this month, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had sent a letter to the Union Home Ministry requesting it to appoint Srivastava as new Chief Secretary.

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The Congress today dismissed an opinion poll predicting Rahul Gandhi as the third choice for prime ministerial prospect, terming it inaccurate.  

"Survey reports always favour those who appoint them. Surveys predicted 19 seats for Congress in Chhattisgarh, but we got 39. Similarly results in Madhya Pradesh and the Rajasthan assembly polls were unexpected contrary to surveys," AICC General Secretary B K Hariprasad said.

He was responding to a query on a newspaper publishing an opinion poll carried out in eight cities. "Why should we share with you," he said when asked what was the findings in the internal assessment of the Congress  regarding the 2014 General Elections.   

Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu was today booked for allegedly raping one of two Surat-based sisters who stayed at his ashram in Gujarat between 1997 and 2006.

In a charge-sheet filed against him in a Gandhinagar court, the spiritual guru has also been accused of illegal confinement and criminal conspiracy.

Five others, including his wife and daughter, have also been booked by the police.

This is the second case of sexual assault against Asaram Bapu, who is lodged in a jail in Rajasthan since August last year.

He was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a teenage girl at his ashram in Jodhpur.  Later, two Surat-based sisters who stayed at his ashram in Gujarat accused him and his son, Narayan Sai, of rape. -- NDTV

Another one joining AAP? Arun Govil, who had played Ram in Ramayana decades ago, says Arvind Kejriwal has shaken traditional politics, and this change was needed. "We are all with him."

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Our sources in Delhi tell us there was a huge buzz when Priyanka Gandhi made a guest appearance at an AICC sub-committee meeting. After the meeting, an insider sent a text messge to a journalist about Priyanka's presence which spread like wildfire.

So, when the meeting was in progress, Congress spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi got numerous phone calls from a mother-brother duo that Dwivedi should hold a press meet to clarify Priyanka's presence.

Meanwhile, the Congress old guard, AK Antony, Ambika Soni, Motilal Vora and Ghulam Nabi Azad are believed to be thrilled at having received phone calls from the Office of the Vice President of Congress party.

The fear that the old guards will be sacked is what makes the phone calls from Rahul Gandhi so important. 

The Supreme Court today directed the Sahara Group to reveal the source of Rs 22,000 crore which it claimed to have paid its investors.

The apex court said that its order barring Sahara Chief Subrata Roy from leaving the country will continue.

"We will direct probe by CBI and registrar of companies, if the group fails to provide information,'' it said.

"You never came out with the truth during the last two years. Don't think that court is helpless,'' the apex court told the Sahara group.

The privilege committee of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council on Thursday issued summons through Director General of Haryana Police to the former Army Chief Gen (retired) VK Singh seeking his presence for his clarification to a television interview, on January 22.

The Hindu reports that ruling National Conference MLC and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's confidante Devinder Singh Rana, who has moved the motion along with two other NC members and is a member of the upper House privilege panel, said that the meeting took serious note of Gen Singh's absence.  Singh had been summoned and directed to appear with his clarifications on January 9.

BS Yeddyurappa today made a grand comeback to the BJP, the party he quit a year ago alleging betrayal, with a vow to 'forget the past' and score an impressive victory in Karnataka in the national election, due by May. 
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Veteran Bengali actress Suchitra Sen continues to be critical, says our correspondent in Kolkata. Sen was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata on December 29 following a respiratory tract infection. The 82-year-old actress, who lives a secluded life and stays locked up inside her apartment, was admitted to Belle Vue Clinic earlier in December after she complained of breathlessness.

The draft political resolution for the upcoming AICC session is ready. There are three sets of suggestions from ministers who are familiar with the political approaches of Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. Similarity in all the three draft resolutions is to attack the BJP and its failure to form the government in Delhi, despite getting 32 seats.

The AICC resolution is however, silent on AAP and its formation of the government in Delhi. Two eminent lawyers, four senior editors, two retired bureaucrats have offered their services to draft the AICC resolution in English. The eight apparently competed to show off their mastery over English, but insiders say that this task was till recently carried out by Pranab Mukherjee with ease.  

Barely a day after an air-conditioned rake developed a snag throwing services out of gear for nearly 45 minutes, a Dum Dum-bound train started from Shyambazar station with two of its doors open. This happened around noon on Wednesday. The rake was a conventional one and when the motorman detected the fault before it entered the tunnel fully, he reversed the train and brought it to the position from which it started.

DMK chief M Karunanidhi has suspended five Madurai supporters of hi son MK Alagiri today. Karunanidhi on Tuesday had said he would not hesitate to sack his Madurai-based son from the party and had strongly condemned Alagiri's remarks that he was against the DMK aligning with the DMDK.  Karuna had also warned that those who violated party discipline would be expelled from it. 

Things came to a head when Alagiri gave an interview to a Tamil news channel stating that he would not accept, under any circumstance, his younger brother and party's treasurer MK Stalin as the next president of the DMK.

Alagiri also ridiculed the credentials of actor-turned-politician and DMDK president Vijayakanth for his political behaviour.

Two eminent lawyers, four senior editors, two retired bureaucrats have offered their services to draft the AICC resolution in English. The eight apparently competed to show off their mastery over English, but insiders say that this task was till recently carried out by Pranab Mukherjee with ease.

It is believed that Narendra Modi called Nitin Gadkari recently and spoke to him for 10 minutes about claims that if the BJP comes to power income tax would be abolished. This was part of the BJP's Vision document 2025 prepared by a Gadkari headed committee. 

Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed today stuck to his guns justifying his controversial comments that whenever there are riots in this country, ISI in Pakistan and BJP rejoice.

"Even after the felicitation of arrested MLAs on (Narendra) Modi's dais for fanning Muzaffarnagar riots, how can one deny that BJP rejoices on riots?," Ahmed tweeted a day after his remarks virtually equating BJP and ISI evoked an angry reaction from the opposition party.

Seeking to counter Ahmed's remarks by raking up the killing of Sikhs in 1984 during Congress rule and Pandits in Kashmir, BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman had yesterday tweeted, "During 1984 anti-Sikh riots and massacre, the BJP protested & the Congress 'rejoiced' (?)!

Any reconsideration now? In the Valley's ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits the ISI 'rejoiced', the BJP protested and the Congress was helpless."

The controversy had begun yesterday after Ahmed read out his old 'ISI-Bhajpai' tweet during a press conference at AICC.

He said that riots lead to polarisation in society, a situation in which BJP benefits in terms of votes while Pakistan's ISI gets more funding from "40-42" Islamic countries in the name of protecting Muslims in India.

He had also rejected the comparison between Gujarat riots and anti-Sikh riots of 1984, saying even before Indira Gandhi's body was cremated, Rajiv Gandhi was out in the streets of Delhi to try and control the riots.

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has cancelled his crucial trip to India this month in view of the strained relations between the two countries over the arrest of an Indian diplomat on alleged visa fraud charges.

The India-US Energy Dialogue to be led by Moniz was expected to make significant progress in energy co-operation and export of American shale gas to India. It would be rescheduled for a mutually convenient date later, State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said.

In comments that could stoke a fresh controversy, Congress leader Digvijay Singh has likened RSS to mythological demon king Ravana while slamming BJP and the Sangh over yesterday's attack on AAP office in Ghaziabad.

"Strongly condemn attack on AAP office by BJP/Sangh activists. BJP as usual is disassociating itself. Part of their strategy.

"Sangh has more than 150 organisations and all have their roots in Sangh. One hand strikes and other hand applies Balm ! Multi Faced Party ! Doesn't it remind us of the Ramayan Character who had 10 Faces and one Body ?," Singh, a known detractor of RSS and BJP, has said in his tweets.

The Aam Aadmi Party's anti-corruption helpline, which became operational from this morning, has already received more than 300 calls in the first three hours.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday announced the helpline number, (011) 27357169, which he said will help the common man combat corruption in Delhi. 

The helpline is open from 8 am to 10 pm every day. A four-digit helpline is in the offing. -- NDTV

At least five people have been killed in an explosion at a chemical factory in central Japan, police say. A further 17 people are reported to have been injured in the blast at a plant run by Mitsubishi Materials in Yokkaichi city, in Mie prefecture. Maintenance crews were working on a heat exchanger used in the production of silicon products when the blast happened, a plant spokesman told AFP. 

The Centre today admitted before the Supreme Court that something went wrong with the coal blocks allocation and that it could have been done in a more refined manner.

"We took decision in good faith but something turned out to be wrong," Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati told a three-judge bench headed by Justice R M Lodha.

"In hindsight, we can say something has gone wrong and some correction is required to be done," he said, virtually accepting that mistakes were committed by the government in coal blocks allocation.

Vahanvati's response came after the bench observed that the exercise could have been done in a "far better manner".

"Everything could have been done in more refined and better manner. I accept my lordships view," the AG further said. At the outset of the day's hearing, the bench asked the AG about the Centre's stand on deallocation of certain coal blocks. In response, Vahanvati submitted the government would next week make its stand clear on the issue.

The AG had in September 2013 submitted that coal blocks allocation was merely a letter of intent and does not confer any right to the companies over the natural resource which is decided by the state government.

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The cartoon on the Hindu today on Priyanka Gandhi's presence at a Congress meet and the hope that she would be able to revive the falling fortunes of the party.

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The Calcutta High Court today directed the West Bengal government to inform it within seven days about its position on a plea for CBI investigation into the Madhyamgram gang rape and alleged murder of a 16-year-old girl in October.

Justice Dipankar Dutta, hearing a plea for handing over the investigation to CBI by the girl's father, also directed the state government to provide adequate security to the girl's family. The matter will be heard on January 15.

The father of a 16-year-old gang-rape victim, who died of burns after she was allegedly set ablaze, had filed a petition before the Calcutta High Court. 

News updates at this hour:

Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has formally rejoined BJP today.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray hits out at Narendra Modi for praising Sardar Patel and the Gujarati community in his rally in Mumbai. He said Modi came to Mumbai and spoke of Sardar Patel's statue, why didn't he mention Shivaji Maharaj. Thackeray said that as the BJP's PM candidate, Modi should look beyond communities. He said a prime minister represents a country not a state and that Modi should have resigned as Gujarat CM when he became the PM candidate.

The minimum temperatures rose in Punjab and Haryana today even as cold conditions continued to prevail at many places in the region. Barring Amritsar, which continued to reel under biting cold recording a minimum of 1 deg C, the temperatures at other places have shown some increase since yesterday, a MeT official said. Patiala and Ludhiana registered respective minimum temperatures of 8.1 deg C and 6.1 deg C.

The arctic blast that brought record low temperatures to many parts of the United States this week appeared to be loosening its grip on Wednesday, with meteorologists promising a far-reaching thaw by the weekend, reports the Guardian. But experts warned that many areas would remain below freezing on Wednesday despite the warm-up, and that travel delays from cancelled flights and rail disruptions caused by the so-called polar vortex could still be expected.

Pic: The frozen Niagra Falls that's doing the round on Twitter. The authenticity of this photograph has not been established.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has alleged that "criminal" collusion between politicians, bureaucrats and builders was one of the major causes behind the collapse last week of the under-construction building in Canacona, which claimed 24 lives.

Demanding an audit by state government of ongoing projects along with the setting up of a judicial commission to hold a probe into the mishap, AAP said that, "The criminal politician -builder-bureaucrat nexus, cutting across party lines, permits structures to come up in flagrant violation of environmental norms and building regulations."

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In a major setback to Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, a federal judge has rejected her plea to extend the January 13 deadline for a preliminary hearing on the visa fraud issue, the date by when she has to be charged.

Shortly after the issuance of the order in which the judge said "good cause" has not been demonstrated in the plea, Khobragade's laywer Daniel Arshack said he is "considering" other options.

The three-page order, by which Khobragade will have to appear in court, means the indictment against her will now have to filed before or on January 13. It was issued late yesterday.

And here's Mukul Kesavan on the Devyani case: The good thing about the Khobragade Affair, of course, is that no one died. This might seem obvious but its worth pointing out because editorial boards in American newspapers have managed to write scolding leaders about Devyani Khobragade without once mentioning Raymond Davis.

So we have the Washington Post this week detailing the infirmities of the Indian governments case, especially its failure to appreciate due process and the independence and even-handedness of the American justice system (everyone gets stripped, so whats special about Devyani?) without once referring to the case of the security contractor, Raymond Davis.

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Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah promises an enquiry into why a journalism graduate from Kupwara missed his dream internship at the Guardian newspaper in London because he was denied a passport. His visa was denied on the grounds that his father was a supporter of the JKLF.

Omar Abdullah tweets that his government has inquired into the passport issue of Sheikh Ruhail.

"It is coming up for review today as he had applied for a review of the rejection. Am sure if there is nothing in his own record his relative's history will not prejudice his passport application.

"That having been said this case raises the wider question of why the CID rejection, against stated policy, happened in the first place. I will get to the bottom of this issue because although this case was highlighted I must ensure there aren't others going unnoticed."

Here's the background of that story.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday was briefed on the operational readiness along the line of actual control (LAC) with China, in the backdrop of the Army kicking off the raising of a new mountain strike corps to get "some offensive punch" against the much larger People's Liberation Army. Read more

Just in: Mananging Editor of IBN7 Ashutosh resigns, likely to join AAP, says ANI. Details awaited.

If this is indeed true, he won't be the first journalist in AAP. Ministers Manish Sisodia and Rakhi Birla were also journalists.
 

Just in: The Aam Admi Party says it's against a ban on opinion polls. AAP minister for urban development, Manish Sisodia, says the results of polls should be made public.

Not surprising, since India's biggest metropolises are eagerly looking forward to the Aam Aadmi Party going national and expect it to make a big splash in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, but a majority still view Narendra Modi as a better prime ministerial prospect than Arvind Kejriwal with Rahul Gandhi a distant third.

The government wants a ban on opinion polls ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in line with the views of the election commission.

Unfazed by the all-round criticism for its sheer scale and extravagance at a time when his government was being pilloried for being insensitive to Muzaffarnagar riot victims, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav made it a point to watch performances by Bollywood top draws Salman Khan, Deepika Padukone and Madhuri Dixit, which brought down the curtains on the fortnight-long 'Saifai Mahotsav' on Wednesday night.
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More than 30,000 people have signed an online petition calling on The Washington Post to tell readers that Amazon, founded by its owner Jeff Bezos, does business with the CIA, activists behind the campaign have said. 

Vice President Joe Biden has spoken for a second time this week to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, voicing support for the Baghdad government's effort to regain control of the city of Fallujah from al-Qaida-linked fighters. 

Canadian health authorities have announced the first avian flu death in North America, in the western plains province of Alberta, of a patient who had just returned from China. 

Authorities in England cordoned off flooded marshes to investigate the crash of a military helicopter that killed four US Air Force crew members. 

Some years ago in India, I found myself in a casual conversation with the US ambassador at the time on the grounds of the American Embassy School in Delhi. 

The man whose death at the hands of a police officer in 2011 sparked riots that shocked Britain was killed lawfully, a jury found on Wednesday, issuing a decision that was sharply criticized by the dead man's family.

The International Space Station will operate for an additional four years, or until 2024, the US space agency said today. 

United States President Barack Obama today invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Washington in an effort to mend fences after a diplomatic crisis provoked by revelations of US eavesdropping on her mobile phone. 

The four US crew members who died in a helicopter crash in Cley-next-the-Sea, north Norfolk, have been named.

Friends and family of the former Miss Venezuela and her British ex-husband killed in a hijacking have said they hoped their deaths might finally force real government action against violent crime, amid nationwide fury that the country's worsening insecurity had claimed one of its most loved stars.

Smoke emanating from underneath a coach of a train bound for Dadar in Mumbai from here caused anxious moments before it was put out by the railway crew at Chincholi station in Belgaum District of Karnataka, a senior police officer said. 

Gunmen attacked a military site north of the Iraqi capital today, killing 12 soldiers and wounding four, police and a doctor said. The militants stormed a building at the site in the Al-Adhim area, then bombed it. 

European Union officials proposed on Wednesday that the EU move quickly send troops to Central African Republic, either to the capital Bangui or the west of the country, diplomatic sources said.

At least 10 militants and three security personnel were killed tonight after a check post was attacked in Pakistan's restive South Waziristan tribal region, the military here said. 

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