The roast of actors Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor, hosted by comedy group AIB and uploaded on YouTube, has run into more trouble.

Delhi Police has dismissed the suggestion that the attacks on churches in the capital had any "pattern" as there were incidents of theft in 265 temples as well last well. 

Jordan said today its warplanes had launched new strikes against the Islamic State group, after vowing a harsh response to the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots captured in Syria. 

In the final leg of her election campaign, BJP's Chief Ministerial nominee Kiran Bedi today attacked AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal and accused him of being a 'liar'. "He's a liar, a total liar. I don't know to what extent they are spreading lies about me, that I will remove road side carts of sellers.

US President Barack Obama today hailed "good friend" Dalai Lama during their first public encounter, calling the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader as an "inspiration for freedom and dignity" in a move that is bound enrage China.

Till a day before joining the BJP, Kiran Bedi had no intention to "join politics" but things changed after she met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, her husband said today.    "

"Before her joining BJP we were not at all interested in politics. A day before joining the BJP, she said there is no chance of joining politics," said Brij Bedi.   

"Then she met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and she was convinced by the party...she rang me up and said destiny is taking somewhere else then I said okay," he told PTI. He said she joined politics, taking it as a challenge and he supported Bedi when she decided to foray into politics.   

"Why will not I support her decision of joining politics? She is an intelligent woman and I had always supported her,though we do not stay together but it is not that support is not there," he said.   

When asked whether he is hopeful of BJP's victory, he said, "I think so...If the BJP comes to power in Delhi then Delhi will gain, if they do not win, then Delhi will lose,"   

Brij runs a school in Amritsar for providing free education to poor children.

The 'breakthrough' in the commercialisation of the 2008 nuclear deal between India and the United States, which was hailed as a triumphant outcome of the visit by President Barack Obama to India recently, is beginning to look more like a capitulation by the Indian government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says M K Bhadrakumar.

Read the blog here 

In yet another controversy to hit the Defence and Research Development Organisation, the project director of nuclear-capable Agni 5 missile programme R K Gupta has been moved out following which he has complained to the defence ministry alleging victimisation.

While DRDO sources termed the transfer as "routine", the officer has alleged that he was singled out by two senior officials within the organisation including former chief Avinash Chander, who demitted his office on January 31.

The incident came just days after the successful canister launch of the inter-continental missile on January 31. Gupta has complained to the Ministry that he received the letter, dated January 9, only on February 2 when he reached his office after the successful launch.

An interview with British director Sam Taylor-Johnson, the woman charged with bringing the season's most-anticipated film to screen. Read it here

CNN reports: Jordanian fighter jets have returned home after carrying out missions, state-run TV reported.

There was no immediate word on what the missions were or where they took place, but a government spokesman said most targets would be in eastern Syria.

Jordan is riding a wave of anger following the brutal killing of one of its pilots by the Islamic State. A video posted by the group showed Lt Moath al-Kasasbeh being burned alive while confined in a cage. The 27-year-old's family is calling for revenge.

 Pope Francis has sent Catholic clergy a powerful reminder of their duty to stamp out sexual abuse of children by priests, warning that they must never let a fear of scandal lead to cover-ups.

AFP reports that in a strongly-worded letter to the heads of national bishops' conferences and religious orders, the Pope demanded "close and complete" cooperation with a new child protection commission he has established at the Vatican.

The commission has been given a brief to drive reform on an issue that has severely damaged the Church's authority and reputation in many countries around the world.

Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor  tweets "Just finished @AatishTaseer's #TheWayThingsWere. Wise,moving,erudite,sharply observed, perceptive, humane:1of the best novels I've read in yrs.


To which Tavleen Singh @tavleen_singh  tweets, @ShashiTharoor Shashi what incredible praise for Aatish's book. And, how good it sounds when it comes from you.

Tavleen Singh is Aatish Taseer's mother.

Meanwhile, read Taseer's interview to Rediff.com right here: "India is a semi-literate country and Chetan Bhagat is the best it can do"

A top secret Pentagon has concluded that Vladimir Putin suffers from Asperger's syndrome.

The study from 2008, which was based only on videos of Putin, claimed that the Russian president's mother had a stroke whilst pregnant with him that left lasting damage.

As a result his "neurological development was significantly interrupted in infancy," the report says.

Putin's authoritarian style and obsession with "extreme control" is a way of overcompensating for his condition, the researchers concluded Putin's actions have been under particular scrutiny since last year when he ordered Russian troops to annexe Western Ukraine. Read more

Mayank Gandhi (AAP) @mayankgandhi I was among those who thought Amit Shah as a master strategist. In Delhi, all his masterstrokes seem silly and badly thought.

Curtains on Thursday came down on the high-decibel campaign in one of the most-fiercely contested Assembly elections in Delhi where BJP has staked its all on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's image against a resurgent Aam Aadmi Party in the February 7 polls.

Roadshows by AAP Chief Arvind Kejriwal in the prestigious New Delhi constituency and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Sultanpur Majra capped a day of nearly 100 rallies by leaders of various parties including BJP president Amit Shah as campaign ended at 6 pm.

After the end of the campaign marked by bitter political attacks and allegations and counter allegations, workers of the major parties fanned out on a door-to-door canvassing in 70 constituencies.

The BJP, which is out of power in Delhi for the last 16 years, made a gamble by bringing in former Team Anna member Kiran Bedi as its Chief Ministerial candidate which is said to have triggered discontent among the party leaders and rank and file.

BJP went all out in its attack on AAP on the last day of campaigning for the Delhi polls and charged that the party was trying to "polarise" voters along communal lines and also distributing cash to secure votes.

"There are reports that police have seized liquor bottles from candidates belonging to AAP. Cash is being distributed by AAP candidates," Union Minister and BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman said at a press conference in Delhi, during which she also alleged that AAP was playing the communal card to polarise voters.

"Leaders and supporters of AAP have even joined protests which did not have permission, perhaps in order to polarise voters on communal lines," Sitharaman said in an apparent reference to AAP functionary Raghav Chadha's presence at a protest by members of the Christian community against "attacks" on churches in Delhi.

BS Bassi, Delhi Police Commissioner on Shiv Menon's interrogation: We have gathered all the necessary information from him.

Menon is Sunanda Pushkar's son and was interrogated over his mother's death.

Baba Ram Rahim on Dera Sacha Sauda's support to BJP: "We will support anyone who will work for the welfare of society. We support BJP as they have been working on promises they made like cleanliness, girl's education."

"Any support from any quarter will be welcomed," Ashish Khetan, AAP on Mamata Banerjee's support to AAP.


While BJP's Sambit Patra, adds, "TMC is a sinking ship, instead of saving her own ship, she is busy steering AAP's ship."

Congress General Secretaries' meeting scheduled to take place tomorrow, Rahul Gandhi to be present.

Campaigning for the Delhi polls ends at 6 pm today.

"Both are scamsters and both are supporting each other," Sambit Patra, BJP on Mamata Banerjee's support to AAP.

And yes, West Bengal CM and TMC chief tweets her support for AAP. The Trinamool Congress has maintained a strident anti-Centre stand on various issues and is engaged in a political confrontation with the BJP.

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Sinha also said that AAP's prospects seemed good.

BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha tweets on the battle for Delhi: "Fight in Delhi is btwn (between) Kiran Bedi who has a clean image, has been a good officer & btwn (between) A Kejriwal who too has a clean image." Sinha also said that AAP's prospects seemed good. "Kejriwal is a good man," he said.

Calling Arvind Kejriwal 'clean' is unlikely to augur well with the BJP who has alleged AAP has received Rs 2 crore in donations hinting they were hawala transactions.

BJP senior leader Piyush Goyal, called it a "serious matter" and has asked for a probe by the Election Commission and Sitharaman has asked AAP to now stop lecturing other parties. 

Sinha, it may be recalled, was not particularly pleased at being left out of the Cabinet. He had expressed hope that he would be offered a ministerial berth.

Bail has been granted to two newspaper vendors of the Urdu daily
Avadhnama on a surety of Rs 7000 each.

The JJ Marg police in Mumbai booked a newspaper vendor for selling the January 17 issue of the Urdu daily Avadhnama, which carried a photo of the cover of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo with the controversial cartoon.

The court lashed out against the police asking, "How can you just pick up someone and put them in jail!"

Former Gujarat top cop D G Vanzara set to walk out of jail after court grants him bail in Ishrat Jehan encounter case.

The special CBI court in Ahmedabad, has already granted bail to IPS officer PP Pandey in same case.

Pandey was the Joint Commissioner of Police when Mumbra-based 19-year old college girl Ishrat Jahan, Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Sheikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were allegedly gunned down by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch sleuths on the outskirts of the city on June 15, 2004.

Vanzara was deputy to Pandey in the crime branch when the encounter had taken place. Apart from Pandey and Vanzara, CBI had charge-sheeted IPS officers G L Singhal and Narendra K Amin and other officers Tarun Barot, J G Parmar and Anaju Chaudhary for murder and criminal conspiracy.

The  CBI started the investigation following a Gujarat High Court order in December 2011. It concluded that the encounter had been staged by the Gujarat police and the Intelligence Bureau.

For all the women who think Unnao's BJP MP and Hindutva voice Sakshi Maharaj spouts words of wisdom, here's some of what he said in 2012  way before the BJP was in power.

Listen up.

Sakshi Maharaj warns: Women in Delhi and Mumbai are huge threats to Indian culture. It is therefore necessary for the BJP to win to keep them in control."

Cable operators of Delhi are reportedly blocking NDTV and ABP News.

Home minister Rajnath Singh tweets this picture, saying, "Met with a group of leaders from the Christian community today who were concerned over the reports of attacks on churches. I assured them that the present dispensation would never tolerate any discrimination in the name of caste, colour, language or religion."

This morning, police detained people protesting the desecration of churches in the national capital. They spared no one --dragging priests, nuns and even elderly women into buses. Shouting slogans for justice, agitators demanded immediate action against those responsible for the attacks.

A woman activist, who lay on the road, was picked up by four policewomen and thrown into a bus, according to reports.

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More on the Bhushans.

Supreme Court lawyer Shanti Bhushan, who is a father figure of AAP had presented a Rs 1 crore cheque to the party when it was founded. That was how much faith and belief he had about the party and what it stood for. But over the last couple of weeks his displeasure with the party and the chief convenor Arvind Kejriwal has been out in the open.

Both Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant Bhushan are upset that the party  has been taken over by Left leaning elements. In fact, that is one of the main reasons for Shanti Bhushan's pro-Kiran Bedi vote. They believe, that Bedi, is at least not a law-breaker.  

The buzz in the AAP headquarters in Delhi is that Arvind Kejriwal is sure of victory. The party, or at least, Ashish Khaitan and Ashutosh, believe it will get 57 seats out of 70. Kejriwal's swearing-in ceremony will be at Vijay Chowk on February 14 and not at Ram Lila Maidan as was the case earlier. Lakhs of people are expected to attend and the party is in fact shortlisting names for ministers. 

AAP leader Prashant Bhushan is not on talking terms with any of the rank and file or for that matter any AAP leader. Prashant Bhushan is now tilting towards his father's opinion of Arvind Kejriwal and his party and has been heard saying that Kejriwal is dictatorial.

Bhushan is upset that Kejriwal did not consult him or his father Shanti Bhushan while deciding to write to the Chief Justice of India about forming a SIT on political fundings.

Bhushan has expressed surprise that Kejriwal does not know that the apex court does not have jurisdiction over party funding.

Bhushan like his father believes that AAP has become a one-man show and has therefore stayed away from the campaign trail.

Last month, Shanti Bhushan had said that Kejriwal only wants winnability. "He must step down as AAP convener because the idea of AAP is bigger than Kejriwal," Bhushan had said.

The senior Bhushan even claimed that his son and Prashant Bhushan also agreed with his stand in private, but is gagged from admitting it in public because of the ongoing elections.

Jordan's King Abdullah is reportedly going to co-pilot a sortie against Islamic State positions in the aftermath of the terrorist group's brutal execution of Jordanian pilot Moaz Kasasbeh. Iraqinews.com reported that King Abdullah is personally involved in conducting the air strikes.

Before assuming the throne, Abullah II was a Major General in charge of Jordanian Special Forces.

Abdullah is also certified as a Cobra Attack Helicopter Pilot.

The new home secretary LC Goyal meets home minister Rajnath Singh.  

One person was killed in an attack on a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in a town north of Cairo early on Thursday.

A fire broke out at the restaurant in a town in the province of Menoufia, 80 km north of the capital, after assailants on a motorcycle threw flammable materials and then opened fire, it said. One person was wounded.

Frequent small-scale attacks on security forces have hurt Egypt's efforts to project an image of stability after four years of turmoil triggered by the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.

Egypt was hoping to ease security concerns before holding an investment conference in the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh in March. -- Reuters

President Barack Obama's visit to India for Republic Day may mark an inflection point in US-India relations. The symbolism of the invitation alone was unmistakable: in one bold gesture, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept aside the cautious, zero-sum politics of the last decade and openly embraced closer ties with the United States.

With "strategic partnership' now a generic descriptor of cordial bilateral ties, President Obama laid down a marker of his own, resolving that America can become India's "best partner' in achieving its great power aspirations. Read more

LC Goyal takes charge as the new Home Secretary.

TMC MP Srinjoy Bose has quit the party. Bose who was arrested by the Special Crime branch of the CBI in connection with the Saradha case on November 20 last year, was granted conditional bail yesterday. Bose was released from after imposing three conditions that he would not leave the country, he would not threaten witnesses and he would respond to CBI's summons, whenever served.

The prime suspect on the crime scene that is India is the middle class. Exactly 95.83% of Indians know absolutely nothing about India and they never will. This is because they haven't travelled abroad (India has 50 million passport holders). They have no experience of difference. They will imagine the rest of the world behaves like us.

Read Aakar Patel's column right here.

On the last day of campaigning for Delhi, a desperate BJP chief Amit Shah has reportedly asked senior party members to step up attack on AAP over the funding issue.

"Not much time is left for campaigning now. The party has decided to attack AAP on its funding process as it has failed to explain how it accepted Rs 2 crore as donation from these four companies. There are other facts regarding its funding process, which have come to light,'' said a senior BJP member.

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Talk about extreme measures! In a grisly incident, a 19-year-old boy in China chopped off his left hand with a cleaver in order to cure his Internet addiction.

Xiao Wang (pseudonym), a high school senior, is recovering after doctors were able to successfully reattach his hand. He performed the amputation on a stone bench next to a bus stop on Sunday with a cleaver taken from his kitchen. He then hailed a cab and headed for the hospital where doctors conducted 10 hours of emergency surgery to reattach Xiao's severed hand. Doctors have said it would take a week to know whether the hand would be saved.

Girish Sanghi, formerly the Andhra Pradesh Congress MP is joining the BJP at 3 pm today. He will be inducted into the party by BJP president Amit Shah and could possibly be given the responsibility of helping the Bihar unit of the party prepare for the assembly polls.

A special court on Thursday has granted bail to suspended additional director general of police PP Pandey in 'the '2004 'fake encounter case of 'Ishrat Jahan and three others.

The Delhi police detained several protesters, who were protesting over the series of attacks on churches in the national capital. Shouting slogans for justice, agitators demanded immediate action against those responsible for the attacks.

The protest outside the Sacred Heart cathedral in the heart of the city was "unlawful", said the police, who were seen pulling women and even children, leaving bags and shoes scattered on the road.
The spokesperson of the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese, Father Dominic Emanuel was also dragged into a bus.

He said, "Police is being forceful and they should be ashamed of it. AAP leader Raghav Chadha has also been detained and was taken into the police van."

Chadha said, "I am here in personal capacity and have come to show solidarity. It is in national interest and not political interest."" We have detained some protesters, legal process will be followed," said Joint CP Mukesh Meena.

"Since December, our churches are being attacked, and this is injustice towards us. Our churches are being desecrated. There is so much violence against us and the administration and police is not taking any action," said Gary, a protester.

Kiren Rijiju, MOS Home: Home secretary Anil Goswami was an efficient and good administrator but this particular incident I wouldn't like to link with anything else. 

Yogendra Yadav tweets: News coming in of lathicharge on people peacefully protesting against Church attacks. So becoming of this arrogant & insensitive government.

Also read: Church attacks: 'Why is Prime Minister Modi quiet?'

The pilot in TransAsia Airways Flight 235 said "mayday, mayday, engine flameout" moments before the propjet banked sharply and crashed into a river, aviation officials said today, but they declined comment on a possible cause for the accident.

Video images of the plane's final moments in the air captured on car dashboard cameras do not appear to show any flames as it turned sharply, with its wings going vertical and clipping a highway bridge before plunging into the Keelung River yesterday, killing at least 31 people. Fifteen people were injured, and the search continued for 12 people still missing.

That's a picture you will never see again -- Amitabh Bachchan campaigning for the polls.

That's a picture of Bachchan campaigning in Allahabad in 1984, which saw him elected to parliament. The watershed in Amitabh Bachchan's life came with his decision to join politics, at his friend and then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's insistence. 

The AAP-BJP bitter spat today saw the Aam Aadmi Party today accusing the saffron party of trying to "buy votes" ahead of February 7 Assembly polls by distributing money and free liquor.

"We have information that BJP is distributing money, liquor and non-vegetarian food to the public and they are also seizing voter identity cards of poor," AAP leader Ashutosh alleged.

"We also have information that they are trying to traumatise and threaten these voters that if they vote for AAP, they will have to bear the consequences later," he told reporters.

Responding to the allegations, BJP spokesperson GVL Narsimha said, "They (AAP) have even sold their party tickets in these elections and their candidates were found collecting and storing liquor for distribution in elections."

"They make all kinds of allegations against every party and institution including the Election Commission but they think they are not required to answer any questions.

"It is the same party which is in the dock for its hawala transactions, for conversion of black money into white and they seem to be completely oblivious to these glaring omissions and commissions on their part," he alleged.

AAP's Yogendra Yadav tweets this: "Dera Sachcha Sauda extends support to BJP. Now we know why the censor board was unceremoniously packed off in the case of MSG movie."

Just hours before comedienne Aditi Mittal was meant to perform at a popular South Mumbai restaurant, the show was cancelled.

Cheval Bar and Restaurant in the city's famous Kala Ghoda area blamed the cancellation on "unforeseen circumstances" after NDTV called the reservation desk to book tickets.

Mittal, 27, was part of a panel of eight comics who roasted actors Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor at a stadium in Mumbai with an audience of 4,000.

The roast, conceived by comic collective AIB, has been accused of obscenity by critics.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has warned that "action will be taken if it emerges that laws were violated."

Online outrage has attacked the government of moral policing and infringement of the right to freedom of expression.

"The AIB Knockout Roast" got eight million views on YouTube before it was removed on Tuesday night. 

In a statement sent last evening, AIB said it was not forced to remove the show.

Mittal was scheduled to take the stage at Cheval at 10:00 pm.  At 9.30 pm, the restaurant's Facebook page shared, "Just to let you guys know once again, tonight's edition of Wednesday Wisecrackers is cancelled." 

The three other comics who were meant to perform also did not appear.

Cheval Bar and Restaurant has not given a reason for the cancellation but sources say this has been done fearing protests. -- NDTV

Why are we not surprised. ANI reports that Dera Sacha Sauda will support BJP in the Delhi elections.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has today declined to stay the release of the controversial film 'Messenger of God (MSG)', featuring the  Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

Newly appointed Home Secretary LC Goyal meets Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

Goyal took over from Anil Goswami last night. Goswami was sacked in the wake of the controversy over his alleged attempt to stall the arrest of Saradha scam accused Matang Sinh, a former Congress minister at the Centre.

Rural Development Secretary L C Goyal, a 1979-batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre, was named as Goswami's successor by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet for a period of two years from the date of taking charge, according to a late night official announcement.

Narendra Modi's obsession with Arvind Kejriwal was today manifest in the last leg of his campaign for the Delhi polls when he castigated the Aam Aadmi Party leader for "harbouring" prime ministerial ambitions, without naming him. The Prime Minister had nice words to say about an old bugbear, Nitish Kumar, and a recent foe, Mamata Banerjee, in comparison to Kejriwal.

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Kirron Kher, BJP MP from Chandigarh on the Delhi polls: "BJP will win and form govt in Delhi, I can sense the response will be very good."

However, this is the reality on the ground. The TOI report says: With the campaign for Delhi drawing to a close in a frenzy of mudslinging and with opinion polls suggesting that the Aam Aadmi Party may have nosed ahead of the BJP, TOI undertook a day-long drive through nine constituencies in west and south Delhi to check out what's exciting voters and determining their choices. While opinions and voting intentions were varied, some unmistakable trends emerged.

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And BJP president Amit Shah's public meeting at Delhi Cantt has been cancelled as well.

JUST IN: Rahul Gandhi's road show in Okhla, New Delhi, has been cancelled. Gandhi, Congress vice-president, was scheduled to campaign in Delhi today before the campaigning period ended today at 6 pm. 

A large number of policemen swooped down on activists protesting in the heart of Delhi against attacks on churches, and forced them into buses. The protest outside the Sacred Heart cathedral in central Delhi was "unlawful", said the police, who were seen bundling activists into buses. They were seen dragging a woman protester, who lay on the road, into a bus. Christian groups had announced a silent protest march against recent attacks on churches and said they would march to Home Minister Rajnath Singh's residence.

Angry parents have surrounded a school in Kerala protesting after the school authorities locked up their children for hours. According to the parents, the officials of Hilltop Public High School in Kozhikode had locked up the kids for more than two hours inside the school. The principal said that students had been kept in a separate hall over non-payment of fees. Parents said that the hall where the kids were kept did not have a fan, and the students were not let out even to use the toilet. Two students were taken to the hospital after they fainted.

L C Goyal, a 1979-batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre arrived at the ministry of home affairs to take charge as the new Home Secretary. Goyal was appointed to the post after the government sacked Anil Goswami  for intervening in the CBI probe against former union minister Matang Sinh. Goyal will hold the post for a period of two years.

Just hours before campaigning ends in Delhi ahead of the February 7 polls, Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate made a final push to the people, saying she loved Delhi and wanted to work for Delhi. 

In a final push to woo the voters on the last day of campaigning for Delhi assembly polls on Thursday, BJP MPs and Union ministers will hold at least one rally in each of the 70 constituencies in the national capital.A senior BJP leader said they have planned to hold rallies in all the 70 constituencies.

The conclusion of a number of significant agreements by India and the United States during US President Barack Obama's recent visit to New Delhi has attracted a great deal of adverse commentary from Islamabad. 

In an act that has caused much surprise and alarm, the JJ Marg police have booked a newspaper vendor for selling the January 17 issue of the Urdu daily Avadhnama, which carried a photo of the cover of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo with the controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammed. Legal experts and newspaper vendors across the city said they were unhappy with the action taken by the police and wondered how a vendor could be held responsible for the content in a newspaper. The complainant has, however, stated that the vendor knew and understood Urdu and knew about the article and, thus, should have refrained from selling the newspaper. 

The Catholic church alleged that two key Vatican officials who were to address the 27th national assembly of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India in Bengaluru which began on February 3 had been denied visa.

After being quoted as saying that he can make or break the government, controversial Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Unnao Sakshi Maharaj did an about turn and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his politics of inclusive development and described him as a divine power.

He's the foreign correspondent who became the centre of an international story, but after 400 days in an Egyptian prison Peter Greste has a newfound appreciation for the simple things in life. Flanked by his parents and two brothers in Brisbane on Thursday morning, just 10 hours after arriving in his home state, Greste, a journalist for Middle Eastern broadcaster Al Jazeera, said, his mind always wandered to the same place while locked up in the Cairo jail. "You always have your dark days and I often closed my eyes and just let my mind drift to where it wanted to go and almost invariably it went to the beach, to the coast, to the sea in some form," he said. 

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Modi put up Jayanthi Natrajan to target Congress: Rahul 

Dept of Post, Mahindras, Sun Pharma join banking race

30 crore people still live in extreme poverty in India