Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has returned to the Special Investigation Team office in Vasant Vihar for a second time today for questioning.

France's major TV and radio networks were formally rapped by the French broadcast regulator today for serious "breaches" in the way they covered last month's Charlie Hebdo attack and subsequent bloody events. 

The Aam Aadmi Party will not send invites to the leaders of any political parties or chief ministers of any state to attend Arvind Kejriwal's oath taking ceremony on Saturday.

Mumbai Police today registered an FIR against 14 persons, including Bollywood personalities Karan Johar, Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhat, organisers and participants of the controversial 'AIB Knockout' show, a day after a court here ordered such an action. 

Observing that the common threat of "violent extremism" may serve as a catalyst for improved security ties between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a top American general based in Kabul today told US lawmakers that Islamabad now needs to follow its words against terrorists with action. 

The Pakistan army today said that out of 27 Taliban militants involved in the Peshawar school massacre nine have been killed and 12 others arrested. 

In a terse message to the seven ruling party legislators who have sided with Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and continued to remain ministers in his minority government, the JD-U today asked them to quit immediately and return to the party-fold.

A chemical analyst today deposed before the sessions court here, which is hearing the 2002 hit-and-run case allegedly involving Salman Khan, that he had received a vial purportedly containing 6 ml blood of the Bollywood actor but found it had only 4 ml of the sample.

To combat terror financing, India and the US today committed to work together to check illicit money transfers for terrorism and other illegal activities, even as the two countries discussed ways to boost trade ties.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and the visiting US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew also discussed a range of other issues, including on taxation and long-term investment strategies, during the 5th Indo-US Economic and Financial Partnership meeting in New Delhi today. "

"We have had a close cooperative relationship with India. We share a common commitment to working together to try as much as we can to shut down the flow of funding to those who commit terrorist act and other kinds of activities," Lew said at a post-meeting joint press conference.

"We discussed money laundering and funding of terrorism, since a large number of these funds come through concealed identities. This issue has been brought to out notice and the concerned authorities, including central bank, has taken appropriate action in this matter," Jaitley said.

Just in: A Mumbai court has ordered a criminal conspiracy case against comedy group AIB and Bollywood personalities for controversial roast.  The court has ordered the police to register a first information report. An FIR has already been filed in Pune, while the Maharashtra government has announced an inquiry.

On Monday, the Bombay high court had directed the government and the I&B ministry to respond to a petition seeking action against organisers.

The show was a comic 'roast', also called insult comedy, a format borrowed from the US. It attracted over four million views in less than four days on YouTube.

The show held in Mumbai saw the participation of Bollywood's Karan Johar, Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Deepika Padukone among others.  

Sachin Tendulkar today tipped India to make it to the semifinals of the cricket World Cup which begins in Australia and New Zealand on Saturday and said that captain Mahendra Singh could play a key role in the country's fortunes in the showpiece event.

"According to me, the top four teams that I would put them in the semis would be Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India," Tendulkar, who played six World Cups, said when asked to name the four top teams.

He said the whole team will have to perform if India have to defend the title they won at home in 2011 but felt that Dhoni's experience and calm leadership would play a key role.

"Yes, I think M S Dhoni is the guy because he has the experience of competing at this level for close to 10 years and he is calm and composed. You know, even on the biggest of the stages he is calm and composed and that is what you expect from a leader," Tendulkar, who won the 2011 World Cup under Dhoni, told Headlines Today.

British Prime Minister David Cameron tries his hand at driving a train. Watch the video here

The Muslim population of Britain is growing faster than the overall population of the country and has nearly doubled to 2.7 million in the past decade, according to the most comprehensive report on the community in UK, released today.

The analysis of 2011 census figures indicate that 2.71 million Muslims lived in England and Wales compared with 1.55 million in 2001 and one in 12 schoolchildren are now officially classed as Muslim.

The report compiled by the Muslim Council of Britain and presented to Parliament concludes that in the coming general election Muslims could play a decisive role on at least 26 parliamentary constituencies, which have a Muslim population of 20 per cent or more.

"There has been a spreading-out effect and this has accelerated in the past 10 years," said Sundas Ali, Oxford University sociologist and the MCB report's analyst.

A NASA spacecraft has captured a giant solar filament which appears as a dark line snaked across the lower half of the Sun and is longer than 67 Earths lined up in a row.  An image captured by the NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on February 10 shows the filament of solar material hovering above the Sun's surface.

The SDO shows colder material as dark and hotter material as light, so the line is, in fact, an enormous swatch of colder material hovering in the Sun's atmosphere, the corona.

Eight members of the Pakistan World Cup squad have been fined for violating the team curfew hours ahead of their crucial World Cup opening match against arch-rivals India, to be played on February 15.

A Pakistan Cricket Board official confirmed to PTI that reports of the eight players being reprimanded and fined for a late night out were correct.

"Yes, manager Naved Akram Cheema has warned the players that no more transgressions of the code of conduct will be tolerated and they can be sent back home as punishment," said the official.

The eight players include senior all-rounder Shahid Afridi, opener Ahmed Shehzad, Wahab Riaz, Haris Sohail. The official said the players had gone out for dinner with a friend in Sydney before the warm-up game against Bangladesh.

Prof Kamal Mitra Chenoy, a founder-member of the Aam Aadmi Party, is unhappy that the party is deviating from its basic ideology. 

An Egyptian court today ordered the release of two remaining Al-Jazeera journalists on bail after they spent more than 400 days in prison, pending their retrial for allegedly supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood.  

Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy was released on 250,000 Egyptian pounds (about $32,000) bail while local journalist Baher Mohamed was freed on his own recognisance along with other defendants.   

The case was adjourned until February 23, the court said.   

The Canadian ambassador was inside the courtroom before the start of the trial.   

Three journalists of Qatar-based Al-Jazeera English were arrested and jailed in July 2013 for 3 to 7 years on charges of supporting Brotherhood and spreading false information. The journalists deny collaborating with the Brotherhood after the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi by the military in 2013. They maintain they were jailed simply for reporting the news.

Sources confirm that the BJP and the PDP have agreed to government formation in Jammu& Kashmir with Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as the next CM of J&K and Nirmal Singh likely to become the Deputy CM. 

"CMship was never bone of dispute," sources say.

Sources confirm that the PDP & BJP have reached an agreement on a common minimum programme including contentious issues such as Article 370 & AFSPA. Government formation likely to take place by next week.

Egyptian authorities have released Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed -- though they still face court proceedings -- after they served more than 400 days in an Egyptian prison.

At the start of their retrial Thursday, a court ordered Fahmy be released on a 250,000 Egyptian pound bail ($32,750); Baher Mohamed was not required to post bail. Court has been adjourned until February 23.

Their release comes less than two weeks after their colleague, Al Jazeera correspondent Peter Greste, was released and deported to his native Australia.

Read full story HERE.

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The SIT also questioned six people, including two members of the Tharoor household's domestic staff, on Thursday.

The session was held in order to get some clarifications on various facts. It has been told that some of the witnesses have been examined more than three times now.

Tharoor was asked Wednesday to join the probe by the SIT investigating Pushkar's death. 

The wife of the Indian national Sureshbhai Patel, who was attacked and left paralysed in the US, broke into tears while talking to media.

Sureshbhai had come to the US two weeks ago to stay with his son in a suburb of Huntsville, Alabama. Last week, while walking down the sidewalk in the neighbourhood he was stopped by the police.

Since he did not know English, he was unable to respond to the questions asked by police except for saying "no English' and in between he put his hand in one of his pockets.

In a sigh of relief for activist Teesta Setalvad, the Supreme Court has stayed the arrest order for a day. Earlier in the day, her arrest was imminent after Gujarat high court rejected her bail plea in the alleged Gulbarg society embezzlement case. She has been accused of misusing some Rs 1.5 crore allegedly collected for a museum at the Gulbarg Society where over 60 were killed during the Gujarat riots in 2002.  

A Mumbai court has ordered that a FIR be registered against Bollywood's Deepika Padukone, Karan Johar and 14 others for the AIB roast. The comedy show, which went viral on YouTube has created quite a lot of controversy with many calling the jokes in the show crass and objectionable. The AIB roast event, staged in Mumbai in December, was attended by 4,000 people and the audience included Johar's mother, Sonakshi Sinha, Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone among others.

The defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Delhi assembly elections will not slow down the pace of economic reforms, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asserted today.   In his first comments after the near-whitewash of his party in the Delhi polls, he said the government was determined to go ahead on the path of economic reforms. "The fact that four (state assembly) elections have been won and one has not been won is absolutely no ground for believing that there will be any slowdown on the path which we have undertaken,' he said. Jaitley's comments assume significance against the backdrop of experts raising questions whether the government would resort to populism in the wake of electoral reverse.  

Senior IPS officer Vivek Srivastava's tenure has been extended till October next year in the post of Inspector General in the Special Protection Group. Srivastava, a 1989-batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre, was in December last year inducted into SPG on deputation from the Intelligence Bureau. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved an extension for Srivastava till October 6, 2016, said an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training.

In the first photo released from Spectre, Daniel Craig is seen holding a gun on the Austrian set of the 24th James Bond movie. A behind-the-scenes video was also released showing the scale of the action scene being shot in the Austrian Alps. 

A ceasefire will begin in eastern Ukraine on 15 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. He made the announcement following marathon talks involving Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, as well the leaders of France and Germany. Further details of agreement are still emerging

In his first stint as Delhi's chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal would rarely leave his house without a carefully prepared basket of food prepared by his wife Sunita. Married nearly 20 years ago, she has been his constant companion from his days as a fighter on the streets to the hallowed portals of the Delhi secretariat that houses the chief minister's office.

As many as 134 applications have been found technically qualified and shortlisted out of the 176 preliminary bids received for the coal blocks on offer in the first tranche, a top coal ministry official said today. 

In his first stint as Delhi's chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal would rarely leave his house without a carefully prepared basket of food prepared by his wife Sunita. Married nearly 20 years ago, she has been his constant companion from his days as a fighter on the streets to the hallowed portals of the Delhi secretariat that houses the chief minister's office.

The Gujarat police have reached the Mumbai home of activist Teesta Setalvad after the Gujarat high court rejected her bail application in the alleged Gulbarg society embezzlement case. 

According to sources, Congress's Ajay Maken is all set to quit the Congress. Sources said that Maken is hurt by the recent comments made by Sheila Dikshit. Earlier in the day, Dikshit said that as the campaign head, Ajay Maken should have been aggressive. She further added that the party's embarrassing rout was owing to a lack in strategy and the fact that the party was demoralised.

Cricket fans get ready. The ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 has kicked off in style at Christchurch with a traditional Sri Lanka dance piece before some Scottish bagpipes, and Bollywood and Irish dancing. Australia and New Zealand welcome the ICC cricket World Cup after a gap of 23 years. 

The buzz in the corridors of power is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to auction his much-commented-upon bandhgala with 'Narendra Damodardas Modi' monogrammed all over the fabric as pinstripes. 

After Shiv Sena targeted ally BJP after the massive drubbing it faced in the Delhi polls, it was Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's turn to take a dig at the BJP. MNS president Raj Thackeray, who is also a political cartoonist, has sketched a cartoon on the Delhi poll result. The cartoon shows PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah as twin towers under attack by AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal. 

One of the issues that will soon come up for consideration before the government is extending SPG cover for former prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress leaders Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi. 

Delhi CM-designate Arvind Kejriwal has sent an invitation to his former India against Corruption colleague Kiran Bedi for the swearing-in ceremony at the Ramlila Maidan on Saturday, said sources. 

After PM Modi said he was appalled and saddened that a temple had been built in his honour in Rajkot, Ramesh Undhad, the man behind the temple has decided to cancel the inauguration slated for Feb 16 and said that he will now build a Bharat Mata temple. "PM Modi remains in our heart, will take part in Clean India movement," Undhad said. 

JUST IN: Shashi Tharoor reaches Sarojini Nagar police station. He will be questioned by the cops once again in the murder of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. 

It has been revealed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not be attending Arvind Kejriwal's swearing-in ceremony to be held at Ramlila Maidan on Saturday. Manish Sisodia, who accompanied Arvind Kejriwal to the PM's residence said that the PM would not be able to attend the event. 

Delhi Chief Minister-elect Arvind Kejriwal met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter's residence -- 7 RCR. The AAP chief extended an invitation to Modi for the swearing-in ceremony, which is scheduled for Saturday noon at the Ramlila Maidan. 

Amit Shah was so "mortified" by the scale of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi debacle that he barely smiled, seldom spoke, cut out the ceremonial fripperies and did away with the music and the firecrackers, said guests who went for his son Jay's wedding in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. 

Six inmates who seized weapons and took a warden and guard hostage at a prison in Kaohsiung, Taiwan have killed themselves after a 14-hour stand-off. The inmates had all been convicted of murder, drug-related offences, burglary and a range of other crimes. They were protesting against their sentences, alleged mistreatment and unfair trials. Deputy Justice Minister Chen Ming-tang said four of the prisoners had killed themselves first. The other two then fired at their bodies, before shooting themselves as well.

Here's a tweet about the Modi temple issue. @DeepalTrevedie tweets, "There are over 4 temples in India named after him.Why did #Modi not object at temples dedicated to him in UP or South before the #AAPSweep?"

What does the AAP's second coming in Delhi '" a microcosm of India, with its privileged, powerful urban centre widening out into a hinterland of migrants '" mean for the traditional opposition parties? Is it an opportunity or a challenge, as they read it in 2013?

Here's a funny take by popular cartoonist Manjul on the BJP's loss in the recently-concluded Delhi elections. 

After hearing of the temple built in Rajkot in his honour, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reacted, saying he was appalled by this development. I have seen the news about a temple being built in my name. I was appalled. This is shocking and against India's great traditions. Building such temples is not what our culture teaches us. Personally, it made me very sad. I would urge those doing it not to do it," the PM said. 

Delhi CM-elect Arvind Kejriwal will take the oath of office at the Ramlila Maidan on Saturday at 12 pm, according to sources. There will be no road show, sources added. Along with Kejriwal, AAP's Manish Sisodia, Satyendra Jain, Adarsh Shastri, Saurabh Bhardwaj, Jitender Tomar, Kapil Mishra, Sandeep Kumar and Asim Ahmed Khan are likely to be inducted into the Delhi cabinet.

If sources are to be believed, Aam Aadmi Party's Manish Sisodia, a close confidante of Arvind Kejriwal, is all set to be the next deputy chief minister of Delhi. 

Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that hit rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio in 2012, was jailed for 16 years on Wednesday for his role in the disaster.

The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine engaged in crucial peace talks today in the Belarusian capital as fighting still raged in eastern Ukraine. 

One person was killed in the shelling of a hospital in the Ukraine separatist stronghold Donetsk at the same time as a peace summit was held in Minsk, authorities said. 

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said that as Chinese love their culture, the Tibetans too love their culture and seek to preserve it, while expressing hope of "returning to homeland". 

Clashes between Iraqi government forces and militants along with attacks in the capital Baghdad killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens today, officials said. 

Sri Lankan Government has decided to release all the 87 fishing boats in its custody following New Delhi's intervention, Fisheries Department officials said here today. 

Shiite militiamen seized some 30 vehicles used by US embassy staff from Sanaa's international airport shortly after their departure from Yemen, diplomatic and airport sources said. 

Italy's government is cracking down on foreign fighters in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, passing a decree that allows police to mount surveillance operations for suspected jihadis and provides stiffer jail terms for recruits. 

President Barack Obama today sought a three-year authorisation of forces against the Islamic State group, saying if it is left "unchecked" it will pose a threat beyond Middle East, including the US homeland. 

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