IPL’s merger with Google that allowed live cricket to be streamed on YouTube broke new ground earlier this year. For the first time in Indian broadcasting history, live sporting action was being streamed on a website. The T20 World Cup that followed it went one step even further, when for the first time a video capsule was produced exclusively for the Internet.

Kashmiri separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and several supporting activists have been placed under house arrest or detained in police lockups ahead of the anniversary of death of two Shopian women whose bodies were found in a mountain stream a day after they had disappeared while returning home from the family apple orchard on May 29 last year.

Yasmeen Khatoon, who has escaped from the death claws with a few broken bones, is more worried about her husband’s well-being. The three-month expecting mother has no idea that her husband is lying lifeless on an ice slab, wrapped in white.

The Maoist mystery behind the Gyaneswari Express accident has been unmasked. Investigating officers have stumbled upon vital clues that have helped them reconstruct the sequence of events that ultimately led to the death of over a hundred passengers.

Expelled SP leader Amar Singh attributed the decision of Jaya Bachchan to turn down the offer of the Samajwadi Party for Rajya Sabha renomination to her husband Amitabh Bachchan’s views that his family should be away from politics. Mrs Bachchan had on Friday surprised the SP leadership by turning down the offer of renomination of the Rajya Sabha.

The civic polls scheduled for Sunday have assumed importance because these are being viewed as the dress rehearsal to the Assembly elections of 2011.
These municipal elections will allow the CPI(M) to find out whether it has recovered the ground it lost in the Lok Sabha elections. For the Trinamul Congress will also get a

Four persons, including a woman, have been arrested by the police for a robbery in the house of a doctor at Shastri Nagar on Wednesday. The police has recovered the robbed cash and jewellery worth Rs 3 lakhs.

Just days after it acquired a majority stake in electric car maker Reva, utility vehicle and tractor major Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) is on the hunt again. It is reportedly bidding for Ssangyong Motor Company, South Korea’s fourth largest auto firm — which is struggling with bankruptcy. Kolkata based Ruia Group, which owns Dunlop, is also in the fray for Ssangyong.

Less than a week after the two Ambani siblings scrapped the non-compete agreement between the two groups, rumours of Reliance Industries Ltd’s next foray have started doing the rounds. If the rumours are true, RIL and Bharti may perhaps form a strong fit.

Star Phoenix is expected to win the Silver Dale Plate, the main event of the races to be held here on Saturday.
Moon Emperor and Dancer’s Wave can upset.