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In other news, jailed former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda today went on a fast demanding better food for prisoners and filed a police complaint into the assault on him in the high-security central jail here.Last night, his MLA wife Gita handed over the complaint to the Sadar police...
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Here's what the Telegraph, UK, has: After 16 hours of deliberation, former captain Butt was found guilty of conspiracy of cheat at gambling, and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments. Asif was found guilty of conspiracy to cheat at gambling. On the charge of conspiracy to accept corrupt payments,...
17:47
Sidin Vadukut on Twitter: Salman Butt is an unfortunate name to have in jail.
17:37
Former ICC chief Ehsan Mani says it's a terrible day for him.
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The bbc has this: Former captain Butt, 27, and bowler Asif, 28, had denied conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments. But a jury at London's Southwark Crown Court found Butt guilty of both charges and Asif guilty of conspiring to cheat. They plotted to deliberately bowl...
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On Twitter: Asif and Butt are the first sportsmen to be convicted of on-field corruption in a UK court since the 1960s. Butt and Asif remain in the dock, stone faced and stunned. A remarkable twist to spot-fixing trial is that Salman Butt's wife is in hospital due to give birth...
17:23
Just in: Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif have been found guilty of match-fixing in the sting that rocked cricket. Jurors hearing the trial of the two Pakistan cricketers took five days to reach their verdict on all charges. Butt was found guilty of conspiracy to cheat and accept corrupt payments,...
17:12
On the Telegraph, Calcutta: A Mizo woman who was gangraped in Delhi last November was shunned by friends and taunted on the streets, prompting her to quit her BPO job and return to Mizoram a couple of months ago. Read
17:09
Hospital chain Fortis Healthcare (India) Ltd said on Tuesday it will buy Singapore-based sister firm Fortis Healthcare International for $665 million, sending its shares up 4 percent in a weak Mumbai market. Read the report on Reuters.
17:04
Update: Senior BJP leader L K Advani's Jan Chetna Yatra reached Goa this afternoon. The Yatra was received by hundred's of BJP supporters atPolem bordering Karnataka. Advani is scheduled to address two public meetings in Goa later in the evening.
17:03
Not in Front of the Corgis, from monarchy chronicler Brian Hoey, is out in June and provides a tantalizing peek inside palace life. Tom Sykes gets his hands on a U.K. copy and offers the best tidbits, from Prince Charles's shoelace-ironers (and massive staff) to a royal murder. Here's the juice.
17:00
Nearly half of Chinese millionaires are thinking about leaving the country, while 14% have or are in the process of applying for emigration, according to a Hurun Research Institute and the Bank of China report. Read on cnn.com
16:53
As investigations in the case related to the pipe bomb that was planted on L K Adavani's yatra route progress, the Special Investigation Team said that the Bharatiya Janata Party leader was not a target. The police now suspect that the incident was carried out either by the People's Democratic...
16:44
In other news: Chinese artist held in detention for close to three months says he has been ordered to pay tax bill but will challenge the demand. Read the story on the Guardian.
16:43
Also on the upcoming winter session of Parliament, this report on the Wall Street Journal: The political management skills of India's Congress party-led national government will once again be put to test. Read
16:38
Against the backdrop of Anna Hazare threatening to resume his fast on the last day of Parliament's Winter Session if a strong Jan Lokpal Bill is not passed by then, Team Anna would once again appear before a Parliamentary panel scrutinising the measure this week. Representatives of Team Anna...
16:32
The last words of the late, much-lauded and much-quoted Steve Jobs have been revealed almost a month after the Apple co-founder died at the age of 56. Jobs, who once memorably described death as very likely the single best invention of life, departed...
16:29
Also on the Guardian: Researchers have put breakfast cereals and milk through their paces. Read
16:27
The Harry Potter author has confessed she considered giving red-haired Weasley the chop midway through writing the series. Read the story on the Guardian.
16:22
Another tweet from Amitabh Bachchan: Watching electronic media and ROTFL as they 'confidently' elaborate on what is happening at our house for the birthday .. all lies !!
15:48
The latest from Libya: If the latest media reports are to be believed, Muammar al-Qaddafi's most famous son and one-time heir, Saif al-Islam, is thinking about surrendering himself to the International Criminal Court. Read more on Foreign Policy magazine.
15:45
The stone whizzed through the late October air, tracing an arc that would be mirrored in history, and landed with a thud on the motorcade bearing President Zail Singh. A collective roar went up from the crowd that had gathered near the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, waiting...
15:42
If you can tolerate the junkies on the stairwells or the rats that sometimes scale the 12 floors of her building on the external electrical wiring, Liu's penthouse shack ticks all the boxes for a multi-million dollar property in Hong Kong. Readthe story on cnn.com
15:39
Amitabh Bachchan tweets: To all those that have so kindly wished Aishwarya on her birthday .. grateful thanks ..!!
15:38
Also readon the bbc.co.uk: Six months on: Japan tsunami survivor's story
15:28
In other news: A Japanese official has drunk water collected from the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, after reporters challenged him to prove it was safe. Yasuhiro Sonoda appeared nervous and his hands shook as he downed a glass during a televised news conference, reports bbc.co.uk. Read
15:26
The controversy over a Finance Ministry note seemingly blaming P Chidambaram in the 2G scam has refused to die down with a new document emerging that the note was revised after consultations with the Cabinet Secretariat and the PMO.Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee suggested to Prime Minister...
15:25
News flash: The Delhi High Court exempts BJP MP Ashok Argal from appearing before court on Nov 3 in cash-for-vote scam, seeks police stand on his bail plea.
15:23
Read on rediff.com: Pranab's letter to PM on the 2G note.
15:17
LK Advani is on the 22nd day of his rath yatra. Sharpening his attack onPrime Minister Manmohan Singh, the senior BJP leader today alleged the Central government led by him lies paralysed and is unable to take any decision because of corruption. Addressing a rally in Kumta, Karnataka, Advani...
15:13
Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday said Afghanistan's neighbouring countries should have only supportive role in ensuring peace, security and territorial integrity of the war-torn country and the Istanbul Regional Conference would help further this cherished objective....
15:08
Former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, arrested for his alleged role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, today accused the CBI in a Delhi court ofdiscriminating among various accused in the case by not opposing their bail pleas for political considerations. The prosecution is making...
15:07
Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has hit out again at Team Anna, accusing its members of misusing funds during the anti-graft movement.Responding to a question that the India Against Corruption has put out details of all its expenses on its website, Digvijay Singh said The details about...
14:55
Also on Firstpost.com, R Jagannathan's column, how, bit by bit, Manmohan Singh's Machiavellian nature is being unmasked. The latest is a revelation by The Times of India that the controversial note of 25 March 2011 sent by the finance ministry, which said that P Chidambaram...
14:48
Libya's ruling National Transitional Council has elected little-known academic Abdul Raheem al-Keeb as the new interim prime minister to guide the country as it emerges from a bitter civil war towards a new constitution and democratic elections. Read the reuters report.
14:45
On Firstpost.com: The world says it's OK for Palestine to become a member of the UNESCO. The US says sorry, we'll cut off the money then. But did the US just cut off its nose to spite its face. Read
14:42
On Reuters: Navigating the obstacle course of India's SimCities. Read
14:35
On Brownpundits.com: Why the Pakistani middle-class gets really excited about Imran Khan. Read
14:31
Read on the Times of India: Ramkrishna Mission monk wins India's highest math award.
14:27
Bollywood actress and mother-to-be Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan turned 38 today and is celebrating her birthday with family and close friends. She will be celebrating her birthday with family... like she always does, a source close to the actress said. There is a buzz that the Bachchan family...
14:22
China is considering sending female astronauts into space during its space docking missions next year, a chief designer for the astronaut program said Monday. Two female astronauts have been selected for possible flights when spacecraft Shenzhou-9 and -10 are scheduled to dock with space lab...
14:20
At Comic-Con 2009, some aspiring filmmakers had the chance to ask real-deal directors how to make it in the business. Sam Raimi offered some very tangible and practical advice -- advice that probably any young director should take to heart. Watch the video on openculture.com
14:18
On Haaretz.com: Israel is extending the range of its Jericho 3 missiles and upgrading its sea-based cruise missiles, according to an independent UK commission report published in the Guardian. Read
14:12
Also on Libya: The academic linked to Gaddafi's fugitive son, Saif al-Islam leaves LSE. Read the Guardian report.
14:05
The black flag of Al Qaeda was spotted flying over a judicial building in Benghazi, as NATO formally ended its military campaign in Libya. The flag fluttered from the roof of the courthouse in Benghazi, where the country's new rulers have imposed sharia law since seizing power, the Daily...
14:03
Has the US deleted the very things that made it great? The Newsweek on how America can avoid imminent collapse. Read
13:58
In other news: Eighteen months after his last physical, US President Barack Obama shows normal cholesterol and low risk of disease -- and that basketball injury has healed well, according to his team of doctors. Read the report in the Daily Beast.
13:53
Team Anna collected donations of Rs 2.94 crore in the past six months out of which Rs 1.14 crore came during Anna Hazare's 12-day hunger strike inRamlila Maidan.According to Team Anna, a total of 27,505 people, including 25,023 during Ramlila agitation, contributed financially to the...
13:43
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today took a dig at Team Anna on its decision to return around Rs 42 lakhs to donors who had sent money to them during thelast six months. Super Team Anna to do an impossible Act. Return 40 lakhs to unknown donors. Only the Super Heroes can collect from...
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News alert: A Delhi court reserves for November 3, the order on the bail plea of ex-Telecom Secretary Siddhartha Behura in the 2G case. Here's the backgrounder: Behura had moved the Delhi High court in June this year, seeking bail. He had submitted before the court that he was being falsely...
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Two persons who were still missing after Saturday's bridge collapse were today rescued but there was no trace of 12 others who had fallen into the Kameng River in Arunachal Pradesh. Authorities have so far rescued 31 of the 49 people who fell in the river after the collapse of the wire suspension...
13:05
Lal Masjid's chief cleric Abdul Aziz has been acquitted by a Pakistani court in four of the 12 cases registered against him for various crimes, including challenging the government writ by keeping illegal arms.Judicial Magistrate Kashif Qayyum Sheikh on Monday acquitted Aziz in the four cases...
12:57
Hundreds of revolutionaries fought each other at a hospital in Tripoli on Monday, raising fears about a deteriorating law and order situation in the North African nation after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. According to The Telegraph, nobody appears to be in control of the thousands of swaggering...
12:55
A new study has found that people who are happy and have a positive outlook live longer -- and the higher your levels of contentment, the lower your risk of premature death.The five-year-long study -- including 4,000 participants aged 52 to 79-year-olds -- revealed that those who reported...
12:47
Silk bloomers and stockings belonging to Queen Victoria are to be auctioned along with hundreds of other royal artefacts, furniture and oil paintings. A large pair of white silk bloomers has been valued at 3,000 pounds while black-and-white, hand-stitched silk stockings she wore when she was in...
12:46
Dissident leader Nabam Tuki was on Tuesday chosen as the new Congress Legislature Party leader in Arunachal Pradesh, signaling the end of the political drama that culminated in the resignation of Chief Minister Jarbom Gamlin.The decision to choose Tuki was taken by the Congress high command.The...
12:11
A Chinese unmanned spacecraft headed off to space on Tuesday for the country's first docking mission, paving the way for the establishment of China's first space station by 2020 to rival Mir, the space lab being operated by Russian and US astronauts. The successful launch of unmanned spacecraft...
12:04
Kerala Congress - B leader and former minister R Balakrishna Pillai, sentenced to jail for a year in a corruption case, was on Tuesday freed under the remission granted by the state government on the occasion of state formation day. The release orders were handed over by the Central Prison...
12:01
United States President Barack Obama has nominated Indian-American Ajit Varadaraj Pai as the Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission, the White House has said. Pai is a Partner in the Litigation Department of Jenner & Block LLP before which he worked in the Office of the General...
11:58
China has dismissed a US commission's claim that it may be responsible for hacking attacks on the country's satellites, and accused the commission of ulterior motives'. A report by the US-China economic and security review commission, published by Bloomberg last week, claimed that in October 2007...
11:54
The Joint Parliamentary Committee, currently investigating the alleged financial irregularities in the 2G scam, is all set to grill the finance ministry and the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Hinting at certain ''discrepancies'' in the loss figure stated by the CAG, JPC chief...
11:52
Libya's National Transitional Council has selected an electronics engineer as the nation's new interim president. Fifty-one members of the NTC chose Abdel-Rahim al-Keeb, from Tripoli, and he will appoint a new Cabinet in the coming days, the Daily Mail reported.One of al-Keeb's first duties...
11:34
Activist Anna Hazare has shot off yet another letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, warning him that he will hold an indefinite fast again if a strong Jan Lokpal Bill is not passed in Parliament's Winter Session. I will begin my hunger strike agitation on the last day of the session,...
11:26
Fifteen people, including eleven labourers and four villagers, were abducted by Maoists in Bihar's Jamui district early on Tuesday, said police officials.Nearly fifty armed Maoists abducted eleven labourers and four villagers from Balthara village, which falls under Sono police station in...
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After beating, Koda lodges complaint with policeFormer Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, who was beaten up inside the high-security Birsa Munda Central Jail, has lodged a complaint with the police accusing jail authorities of assault.Koda's MLA wife Gita handed over his complaint letter to the...
11:18
One of the two outfits behind the crippling 93-day economic blockade on two national highways in Manipur lifted it at midnight after the state government's assurance to it that district status will be accorded to Sadar Hills.Official sources said on Tuesday that the Sadar Hills District Demand...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa moves Supreme Court challenging trial court's order directing her to appear before it on November 8 in disproportionate assets case.She has pleaded that the trial court order violates the Supreme Court's order asking her to appear before it on October 20 and...
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