Miscast as Hollywood eye-candy and mocked in her native India, Freida Pinto has struggled since Slumdog Millionaire. Now, in Michael Winterbottom's Trishna, she's found a role that suits her.

Read and watch the video on the Guardian.

Secret EU deal forces Britain to take in 12,000 Indian workers despite soaring unemployment Britain. In fact, it must take more Indian workers than any other nation - and TWICE as many as France.

Read more on the Daily Mail

They are among the biggest creatures to roam Africa's plains. But even these elephants were scared by a jumbo-sized cloud of birds who are the same size as the common starling. The red-billed queleas swarmed around this pair of pachyderms as they tried to drink at the Satao Camp water hole in East Tsavo, Kenya. In seconds, the peace was shattered by a storm of wings, frightening the elephants away.

On the Daily Mail.

Incredibly detailed model of Hogwarts Castle used for every film in blockbusting series is revealed for the first time.

Magical pictures.

Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, offered a sobering outlook on Europe's debt crisis at Ramapo College, predicting the euro in its current form was unlikely to survive.

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The CPI(M) today welcomed the Calcutta High Court order for a CID probe under its monitoring into the killings of two CPI(M) leaders, including a former MLA, in Burdwan on February 22. 

"We can't keep faith on the manner of inquiry being conducted by the CID and the state police and it is applicable
not only in political violence, murder or other incidents, but also in non-political incidents," Leader of Opposition in state Assembly Suryakanta Mishra (CPI-M) said. 

However, he added that the High Court had given a message "against the manner of tardy inquiry being conducted into the gruesome murder of our former party MLA and district committee member Pradip Tah and another district committee member Kamal Gayen in a politically-biased way."

The merchant vessel which slammed into a boat leaving two fishermen dead about 15 nautical miles off Alappuzha coast around 2 am on Thursday has been identified.

The incident came close on the heels of Italian ship Enrica Lexie killing two Indian fishermen.

In this case, three fishermen are missing. Out of the seven fishermen who were in the boat, two were rescued by another fishing boat. The bodies of Justine, 42, 'srank' of Don 1, Kinattinkara House, Kovilthottam, Chavara, and Xavier, 45, Puthenthurayil House, Kureethura, Chavara, were brought to the Thottappilly fishing harbour, reports IBN Live.

Scarlett Johansson is all set to play Janet Leigh in a movie about the making of classic horror Psycho.  

Making of Psycho is a behind-the-scenes drama about the creepy film and the director Alfred Hitchock's struggle to bring it to the big screen.  

Psycho is one of the most culturally significant movies in history, providing film fans with mother-obsessed murderer Norman Bates and the iconic shower scene.  

Anthony Hopkins has been signed on to play Hitchcock, while Dame Helen Mirren will play his wife Alma Reville.

Condemning the attack on media persons in Bangalore, Press Council Chairman Justice Markandey Katju today said that the advocates who have committed the "outrage" deserve "severe punishment in accordance with law".

 "I am deeply distressed that some lawyers of Bangalore today took the law into their own hands and physically attacked media persons. This is highly objectionable and condemnable," he said in a statement here.

Observing that the lawyers had "no business and no right" to prevent media persons from covering the event, Katju said "no leniency should be shown" to the advocates "as they appear to have violated their solemn duty as Officers of the Court".

Parliamentary panel on Direct Taxes Code will submit a report within a week. The panel on DTC wants the income tax exemption limit to be raised to Rs 3 lakh from the present Rs 1.8 lakh now for basic income and on investments to Rs 2.5 lakh.

The recommendation represents a 67% increase over the current limit on basic income tax exemption limit of 1.8 lakh and 65% over the 1.55 lakh limit for investments, including health insurance. Health insurance for senior citizen parents will be eligible for another 20,000 rebate, the same as the current limit.  

Kathryn Bigelow began work in India this week on her film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, with parts of Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab province, turned into a Pakistani town.

Read the report on the WSJ

Five minutes ago: Kulasekara has David Hussey (74) caught by Dilshan at long off in the first ball off the final over to hand Sri Lanka a nine-run win and a passage to the final of the CB series. Chasing 238 to win, Australia could manage only 229. 

What all of that means is that India have crashed out of the tournament.

If you've missed the match, read it here.

On rediff.com:  Sanjay Tiwari, who works for a cable television distribution company in Mumbai, has become the bane of former city Congress chief Kripashankar Singh's existence. Tiwari, who lives in a Mumbai slum, has alleged that Singh has amassed huge wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income.

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Senior Maharashtra Congress leader Kripashankar Singh's cup of woes brims over.

Kripa invited the Supreme Court's ire for having mentioned his plea against a corruption case against him and his family members before a different bench today after getting the same withdrawn from the court's mentioning list yesterday. 

Terming Singh's act as that of "bench-hunting," a bench of justices D K Jain and A R Dave refused to grant any immediate relief to the Congress leader and even ticked off his counsel, senior advocate Ranjit Kumar for mentioning his plea before it after getting the same withdrawn yesterday.

 "We are very sorry. We are very sorry, this cannot happen. This is nothing but bench hunting," the bench told senior counsel Ranjit Kumar.

Yahoo! India had moved the Delhi High Court against a lower court order summoning it for allegedly hosting objectionable content. Refusing to stay the criminal proceedings against the website, last month, Justice Suresh Kait had declined to pass any order "at this stage' and fixed the matter for March 1, saying he would hear the case before the trial court hears it on March 13.

Appearing for Yahoo! India Pvt Ltd, senior advocate Arvind Nigam claimed that the company's name did not figure in the complaint and submitted that the High Court should stay the proceedings.

Former telecom minister A. Raja today moved the Supreme Court, asking it to recall its 2 February judgement cancelling 122 telecom licences that had been granted during his term.

In his petition, Raja, who is currently in jail (but not breaking rocks) for allegedly biasing the licence grant process in favour of applicants that resulted in loss to the national exchequer, said the apex court has condemned him without hearing him and that the judgement is against the principles of natural justice.

More on NDTV.

Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananada Gowda today assured journalists that stern action would be taken against lawyers who attacked mediapersons and police personnel at the city civil court complex. The Chief Minister said he has directed the police to submit by evening a report on the incident.

"We will come out with a concrete decision after going through the report, which is expected by today evening, to put an end to such kind of incidents taking place on court premises," he told a delegation of mediapersons at his
official residence, Krishna, here.

Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz has said accused influential Pakistani and US officials, including Interior Minister Rehman Malik, of harassing him in connection with traveling to Islamabad to testify on the Memo Gate controversy.  

"Before I could finalise my plan to appear in person before the honourable judicial commission, some American and Pakistani officials threatened me of serious consequences in case I travelled to Pakistan,' The Nation quoted Mansoor, as saying.          

One of those reports that leave you with a sense of disbelief.

Children in Britain are being abused and murdered in increasing numbers because the belief in witchcraft is rife in some African communities, police said.

Read the story on the Telegraph, UK.

Earlier in the day, media had reported Intelligence Bureau officials probing a possible bugging incident of Defence Minister A K Antony's office.  

It was reported that the incident came to the notice of the ministry on February 16 after which Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma asked the IB to conduct an investigation.

Voting for the seventh and final phase in Uttar Pradesh covering the remaining 15 per cent seats and in Goa will be held tomorrow bringing to an end
Assembly polls in five states billed as a mini-general election. 

With the outcome of the elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa being keenly watched, polling will be held for 60 seats spread over 10 districts in UP which could be decisive in throwing up winning parties. 

Counting of votes will be taken up on March 6. Tomorrow's polling in UP will decide the fate of 962 candidates including Samajwadi Party's Muslim face Mohammad Azam Khan. The strength of the Assembly in UP is 425 with ruling BSP, SP, BJP and Congress being the main contenders. 

The final phase would cover Bijnore, Moradabad, Bheem Nagar, Rampur, Jyotiba Phule Nagar, Badaun, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur and Lakhimpur Kheri in which more than 1.82 crore voters are eligble to vote. There are sizeable Muslim pockets in these constituencies.

The Supreme Court refuses immediate relief to former Mumbai Congress leader Kripashankar Singh against the Bombay High Court order in the corruption case. The SC refused to hear Singh's plea after it discovered that the plea, that was originally sought to have been listed on March 1, was later on, listed for March 2 by the advocates of Kripashankar. The SC Bench of DK Jain and AR Dave took a strong objection to the way the case was listed today.

This morning, the Mumbai crime branch carried out raids at the premises of the Singh including his Bandra residence. The raids come after a first information report was recently filed against the Congress leader for amassing disproportionate assets worth crores.

The searches were conducted at various properties in the city -- Tarang Building in Bandra, the Sai Prasad Building in Bandra east and Jupiter in Parle.

"The house and office of Kripashankar Singh in suburban Mumbai were raided. We are looking for some documents that will help us in the probe," said a police officer.

The former Mumbai Congress chief, who is facing graft charges, had on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging the high court verdict for his prosecution and attachment of immovable properties, two days after an FIR was registered by the city police against him in the DA case.

While on Maldives, you do know that India has proposed early presidential elections to end the political impasse in the country following the ouster of the first democratically elected President Mohamed Nasheed.

During his talks with leaders of political parties on Tuesday night, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai proposed a paper which hinted at presidential election before the end of this year, local media quoted participants at the meeting as saying.

Read the report on rediff.com.

How rogue officers gave me an hour to step down or face bloodshed.

The first-person account by deposed Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on Foreign Policy. Read

Also see: The Dregs of Dictatorship (Nasheed's editorial for the NYT the day after he was deposed)   

The US has said it is strongly supportive of India's investment in the civil nuclear power sector and does not favour its NGOs opposing anti-nuclear activities in the country. 

"We are supportive, as a government, of India's investment in civil nuclear power. That's not what we support NGOs to do in India," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said asked about the recent Indian statements that American NGOs are involved in opposing the nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu.

Also read: Russia supports PM's charge over Kudankulam

A report from the Dawn, Pakistan, we presume the BJP and its attendant tribe hasn't seen.

Hindu community representatives in Karachi yesterday expressed their serious concern over 'a rising sense of insecurity' among their people mainly in the interior of Sindh following some recent incidents of "kidnappings of Hindu community girls and their forced conversion to Islam".

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When former Pakistan President Pervez Musharrafvisited India in April 2005, he met with Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, as all visiting Pakistani leaders do, evidently to be seen to offering solidarity with the Kashmir cause.

Read the report on Firstpost.com 

Interesting read: Should technocrats like Dr Manmohan Singh run a country?

A view.

No tweet from Salman Rushdie yet on this report, but the moment that happens, you know you will find it here.

Anyway, the news that the co-founder of the Jaipur Lit Fest, William Dalrymple, feels that the opposition to Salman Rushdie's visit to India was not a disaster for free speech but instead launched a nationwide debate about the way politicians are failing to support freedom of writers.

"I do not feel someone has been silenced or there has been any disaster for free speech. I think on the positive side it has launched a debate about the way politicians are failing to support freedom of writers," Dalrymple said.

Rushdie went ahead and gave a lengthy interview to an Indian television channel. Over a million people saw Rushdie's interview as opposed to only 15,000 who would have heard him at the festival, Dalrymple said. He acknowledged that the "mistake" he and other festival organisers made was to announce Rushdie's participation at the festival in advance. 

"Had we not announced it (Rushdie's participation), it would have been fine like it was in 2007" when the India born author had attended the Jaipur festival without any incident and protests. Dalrymple said Rushide had wanted his participation to be announced.

Also from the WSJ:

On Tuesday, a handful of octogenarian veterans from Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army, or Azad Hind Fauj -- an armed force of Indian nationalists seeking to overthrow British rule -- gathered at Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, mingling with former Singapore President S.R. Nathan, among others.

The occasion: the Southeast Asia release of A Gentleman's Word, a book on the legacy of Netaji, as Bose was fondly called.

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Dalauna and Kallipurab, two villages in the state of Uttar Pradesh, are just a few miles from each other. But for locals they feel worlds apart. Dalauna, a village just outside the state capital of Lucknow and home to a few hundred people, boasts paved roads, a reasonably good drainage system and a health-care center. Kallipurab has none of that.

Read the WSJ report.

In yet another chilling episode in the feudal society of rural Bihar, the hands of a 20-year-old youth from Arwal district were chopped off because he failed to repay a loan of Rs 300. Ram Sagar Chandravanshi, who belongs to an extreme backward caste, is currently admitted in the Patna Medical College.

Read MI Khan's report on rediff.com

Veteran crooner Engelbert Humperdinck, whose last top 10 hit was 42 years ago has been chosen as the UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. The 75-year-old star, who famously held The Beatles off number one in 1967, has been chosen by the BBC to take part in the contest.

If your repertoire of music begins and ends with a Lady called Gaga, acquaint yourself with the man with a magical voice. Read

The Shiv Sena today described the raids conducted by the Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing on the premises of former city Congress chief Kripashankar Singh as "farcical" and alleged that Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and MPCC chief Manikrao Thakre were protecting him. 

"Singh was given time to move the Supreme Court so that he could bring stay on the action to be taken by the police. Chief Minister Chavan and Manikrao Thakre are mutually helping him," Sena MP and spokesperson Sanjay Raut said. He also alleged that various leaders from Maharashtra and Delhi are with Singh.

Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Council Vinod Tawade said that the state government and Mumbai police should have immediately swung into action after the High Court order. "The action was taken very late. He was given time to dispose off the evidences and move the Supreme Court," Tawade said. 

Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta, who fell out with his actor-friend Sanjay Dutt, says, they have moved on after doing their share of movies together. Their good friendship turned sour, during the making of 'Shootout at Lokhandwala' over some payment issues. Also, Gupta had said in an interview earlier that he would
never work with Dutt again. 

The producer's 'Shootout at Lokhandwala' had the actor essaying one of the main leads of Additional Commissioner of Police A A Khan, who shoots dreaded gangster Maya Dolas dead. 

On Dutt missing from the sequel 'Shootout at Wadala', Gupta, said, "We have done our share of films. Its time to move on and we have moved on." "No actor can lessen or rise the impact of a film by his presence," he added.

A PTI report says that a woman dies giving birth every three minutes in Pakistan and such deaths are attributable to the absence of birth spacing, according to a top USAID official. "There are many factors to consider in determining the
optimal time interval between pregnancies.

However, researchers agree that two to three years between births is usually best for the well being of the mother and her children," USAID health development officer Nora Madrigal told reporters here. She said a mother dies every three minutes in Pakistan because of the absence of birth spacing, which refers to the time between the birth of children.

Barkha Dutt: Too much tolerance in India for snooping, prying, phone tapping within government & on private citizens. No outrage by the always outraged?

Antony yet to trend on Twitter

US President Barack Obama's Facebook page switched to the social network's new timeline format, giving details of his life including his first job at
an ice cream parlour. 

The first date on the timeline is August 4, 1961, his birthday. It is accompanied with the words "Made in the USA" and includes a photo of his birth certificate, emblazoned on a coffee mug, an apparent jab at the controversy over his birthplace and nationality. The new timeline format offers other details of Obama's life.

Here you go

While Antony figures out the next move, a couple of world stories...

US special forces are present in five South Asian countries, including India, a top Pentagon commander has revealed. US Pacific Commander Admiral Robert Willard said the teams were deployed to help India with their counter-terrorism co-operation.

More on the bbc.co.uk

If you recollect, on June 2011, the Manmohan Singh government was embroiled in a fresh controversy after its senior-most minister Pranab Mukherjeeconfirmed that he suspected his finance ministry offices were bugged and had sought a secret inquiry into the alleged incidents.

Read Vicky Nanjappa's piece on the probability of the incident on rediff.com

On February 16, a bug alarm was triggered in Defence Minister AK Antony's South Block office, reports India Today.

A hand-held bug detector wielded by Military Intelligence (MI) personnel beeped, indicating the presence a monitoring device.

The two-man team of plainclothes MI was asked to leave. The minister's staff then alerted the home ministry.

A counter-intelligence team of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) was called in later in the day. A senior IB official said "a discrepancy" had been noted in the defence minister's office.

Both IB and defence ministry have begun high-level probes into the security breach. The mystery over the bug continues.

The list of suspects seems endless.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) will decide contracts worth over $100 billion (Rs.5 lakh crore). It also steers military relations with global powers. Antony also forms part of Congress President Sonia Gandhi's core team of political advisers.

A range of interests ranging from foreign powers to defence contractors and rival political parties would like to know his thoughts.

A report on NDTV and across channels says that lawyers at a Bangalore civil court have attacked mediapersons this morning for what they describe as "one-sided coverage" of a strike by lawyers two weeks ago.   

The police used teargas and lathicharged as lawyers threw stones at vehicles owned by different TV channels, and smashed their windows. 

The media had gathered in large numbers outside the court to report on the arrival of former minister Janardhana Reddy, who has been in jail for illegal mining by different companies that he owns.

The Supreme Court has appointed its former judge H S Bedi as monitoring authority chairman to look into 22 encounter killings between 2002 and 2006 in Gujarat.

The SC has ordered the Gujarat government to give complete "facility and assistance" to Bedi to make a meaningful and effective investigation.

The monitoring authority is to submit its interim report within three months. The SC also rejects the Gujarat government's plea seeking extension of time till March 12 to sort out the issue of appointment of chairman.

International news

American businessman Mansoor Ijaz has said that he delivered a memo to the former US military chief last year because the intelligence agencies of four
countries had told him of the possibility of a military coup in Pakistan after the killing of Osama bin Laden last year.

Ijaz made the claim as he was cross-examined by lawyers as part of a hearing yesterday by the Supreme Court-appointed judicial commission that is investigating the mysterious memo, which triggered a standoff between the powerful military and the civilian government last year. 

He claimed he had obtained information about visits to several countries by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency chief Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, allegedly to seek support for a coup, as well as the reaction of army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, President Asif Ali Zardari and the military secretary to the President after the raid against bin Laden by US special forces on May 2 last year.

News of Chitrangada Singh, easily one of Bollywood's most beautiful.

The actress is looking forward to her next film 'Inkaar' on sexual  harassment, says PTI. 

The 35-year-old is re-teaming with ace director Sudhir Mishra in the film where Arjun Rampal plays the male lead. Chitrangada stars as a corporate woman who suffers sexual exploitation at the workplace.

"I am really looking forward to 'Inkaar', the film is releasing in May. It is a superb script just like Sudhir's other films. It's about a love story stuck in a sexual harassment case. I am very excited about it," Chitrangada said.

With the ONGC disinvestment barely scraping through, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the government has decided to study the auction process before going ahead with stake sale of other companies. "This (ONGC auction) is the first case. We shall have to to analyse and then make assessment," Mukherjee said.

The share sale of ONGC scraped through with largest insurer LIC coming to the rescue at the last moment. Mukherjee had yesterday said that the stake sale was subscribed 98.3 per cent yielding government Rs 12,733 crore.

Against an offer of 42.77 crore shares, the final demand was for 42.04 crore shares. Out of this LIC has reportedly purchased 41 crore shares. The government has already asked Sebi to investigate the technical glitches that led to confusion about the subscription of ONGC share auction.

Just in: The Indian Olympic Association meets to decide the fate of Suresh Kalmadi. At the executive meeting, acting president VK Malhotra says he will continue with his post, while Kalmadi remains president.  

Faced with intense pressure from the IOC to act against Suresh Kalmadi, the Indian Olympic Association's Executive Board met in New Delhi today 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 Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010.

US President Barack Obama sought to blame burgeoning growth in India, China and Brazil for the rising oil prices in a bid to deflect the criticism of the
Republicans who are attributing the surge to his failed energy policy in an election year. 

Citing rising auto sales in these countries, he said as people in India and China get wealthier they will buy more cars and fill them up like Americans do, driving up oil prices.

Amid tight security, former Karnataka Tourism Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy was today produced before a special CBI court here which
remanded him to CBI custody till March 12 in connection with an illegal mining case. 

Reddy and 20 others are facing charges for their alleged involvement in illegal mining, over which the CBI had filed an FIR against them in October last.
Reddy was brought here in the early hours of today by CBI personnel from Hyderabad and later escorted into the court.

Oscar-winning star Colin Firth has found a new wife: Nicole Kidman. She will take the role over from Rachel Weisz as the remarkable woman who helped her husband try to overcome nightmares caused by his horrific World War II experiences.

More on the Daily Mail.

His love life has played out like a soap opera, but could it be possible that Eddie Murphy has finally settled down with singer Toni Braxton? Apparently so, because the Tower Heist star, 50 , and the voice behind the anthemic Un-break My Heart, 44 , 'are seeing each other,' according to Us Weekly.  And what's more, they're both 'very into it.'

That's another story from the Daily Mail.

He has dated a slew of beauties, including Italian TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis, British model Lisa Snowden and currently former WWE wrestler Stacey Keibler. But over the years the 50-year-old Hollywood heartthrob has continuously been the target of gay rumours.

Read the Daily Mail story.

Indian government allows Pakistani players in for World Series Hockey but keeps cricketers away from IPL.

Read the report on the Daily Mail.

Elections to the 40-member Legislative Assembly in Goa would be held tomorrow, where 10.25 lakh voters will decide the fate of 215 candidates, including nine women and 74 independents in the fray. 

The coastal state is the first in the country to adopt Poll Monitoring System in the assembly elections. Under the system, photographs and fingerprints of all voters will be captured on computers. 

The voting will begin from 7 am and would be held at 1612 polling booths with 10,644 poll personnel on duty. Joint Chief Electoral Officer Narayan Navti said all measures have been taken to ensure a fair and free election in the state. 

He said a total of 3526 local policemen along with companies of para military forces have been deployed to prevent any  lawlessness.

In a shocking and bizarre incident in Jaipur, the police have arrested a 21-year-old paraplegic woman over charges of abuse, reports IBN Live.

The police claim the woman is involved in the kidnapping and sexual abuse of another woman. What is shocking is that the 21-year old herself is allegedly a victim of sexual abuse by three Rajasthan policemen.

Her parents alleged that she was being falsely implicated in another case so that the three arrested policemen could walk free. She lost both her legs after she jumped in front of a train in January 2011, upset over allegedly being beaten and sexually humiliated by the policemen.

Boy, 8, devastated to find his illness is terminal after going on Google.

Read the story on the Daily Mail.

A TV report says that a 21-year-old paraplegic woman in Jaipur has been arrested for sexual abuse. No details yet.  

Also on Syria... The Red Cross is due to enter the Baba Amr district of the Syrian city of Homs today to deliver food and medical supplies after a month-long siege. The International Committee of the Red Cross is to enter the area with the Syrian Red Crescent, and is also planning to evacuate the wounded.

Read the bbc report.

Two French journalists who had been trapped for days in the besieged Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr have been moved to safety in Lebanon, officials said Thursday. "I can confirm that it's official," French President Nicolas Sarkozy told BFM-TV about the whereabouts of Edith Bouvier and William Daniels. "They are in security."

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Back to what is called news...

A Supreme Court bench today recused itself from hearing a petition challenging the validity of the USD 8.5 billion Cairn-Vedanta deal and seeking a CBI probe into reasons for ONGC and government in "not  asserting" their legal rights in the issue. 

Without giving any reason, a bench of justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad said it would not like to hear the matter and that it will go to some other bench. The judges simply said that the matter should not be listed before them.

And then there is Veena Malik, who is all set to star opposite her ex-flame Ashmit Patel in a new film called Supermodel.

If you're still reading this, she says her fans (ummm) will see some sizzling on-screen chemistry between the two.

The controversial Pakistani actress was seen getting close to Patel in Bigg Boss and had drawn some flak back home for her stint in the reality show.

"This is where people will get to see the rocking chemistry between Ashmit Patel and myself, long after the Bigg Boss episode.

Boggles the mind if the parents are indeed guilty as the CBI seems to think.

In other stories...  

Shirish Kunder, who was recently in news for his tiff with Shah Rukh Khan, has apparently angered Akshay Kumar this time.

The buzz has it that Akki was very upset with the director after watching the rough cut of his upcoming movie Joker and the way the film had turned out, and demanded quite a few changes in it.

The 44-year-old actor was reportedly so angry with Kunder that he shouted at him and almost decided to walk out of the film at the last moment. However, the two later sorted out their differences.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, February 28, had reserved for final orders a petition by the couple, whose daughter Arushi was found murdered at their Noida house in May 2008, to transfer the trial from Ghaziabad to Delhi after a heated bout of parry and counter between the couple and the CBI, reports the Indian Express.

While the Talwars banked on their "harrowing' experiences after Arushi's murder to seek transfer of the trial, the CBI said the couple's plea was only a "red herring' calculated to delay criminal proceedings against them in the case.

Arushi was found dead on May 16, 2008, and the body of their domestic help, Hemraj, was found on the terrace of the house the next day.

The CBI said an accused cannot choose the court. The transfer petitions were filed after the Supreme Court on January 6, 2012, directed the couple to stand trial in the case.

The Supreme Court says only parties concerned and their counsel would be
allowed inside the court during the trial, rubbishing the Talwars' claims that they faced security threats if the trial continued in Ghaziabad. They want it moved to Delhi.

The trial will now resume on March 14.

Good morning. The Supreme Court has dismissed the petition of murder accused Rajesh and Nupur Talwar to move the trial against them in the case of the murder of their daughter Aarushi from Ghaziabad to Delhi.

The judgement was delivered by a bench of justices B S Chauhan and J S Khehar which had, on February 27, reserved its order on the couple's plea.

Pleading to shift the trial to Delhi, the couple had submitted it has been a traumatic experience for them to go to Ghaziabad to face the trial and that they also face security threat there.

The SC said that the grounds for moving the trial is not valid.

Despite drop, India No. 9 in number of immigrants (The Times of India)
The number of foreign immigrants living in India is steadily declining, but India continues to be among the 10 countries with the highest in-migration in the world. Read

Indias tit for tat to UK on visa norms (The Times of India)
India has forced the UK to roll back its decision to bar Indians to apply for UK visas from Belgium by restricting UK nationals from applying for visa in Brussels. Read

2G: Govt to file review petition challenging SCs verdict (Hindustan Times)
The government will today file a review petition challenging the Supreme Courts verdict on the cancellation of 2G licences issued on or after February 10, 2008 as they were issued on the policy of first-come-first-served (FCFS) basis. Read

Mumbai police raids premises of Kripashankar Singh (Hindustan Times)
The Mumbai police today raided the premises of former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh, facing charges of amassing wealth disproportionate to known sources of income. Read

Counter-terror ops: US parks teams in India, 4 other nations (Indian Express)
A top commander told lawmakers that US and India are working together to contain LeT. Read

Terror plot: Hurriyat Chairman Geelani gave recommendation letter for LeT militant (Indian Expess)
Copy of recommendation letter was found in the papers seized from 24-year old Athesham Malik. Read