As an airfield in the border state of Arunachal Pradesh was reactivated on Friday, IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne said beefing up infrastructure in the Northeast is not to “counter” the Chinese.

The Telugu Desam Party is planning to move a no-confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government in the ensuing Winter Session of the Assembly.

Placing the state police on similar lines with that of military personnel, Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday announced setting up of canteens to sell goods to police personnel at subsidised rates.

In fresh trouble for former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, another complaint was on Thursday filed against him and housing minister V. Somanna in the Lokayukta court in an alleged land scam.

The chairman of Kingfisher Airlines, Vijay Mallya, said in an interview with the Financial Times he was close to sealing a $370 million deal with an Indian private investor and a consortium of banks that would save the airline.

Ordering one of its most comprehensive inquires, the AP high court on Monday ordered the CBI, the Enforcement Directorate, the state police and the state government to inquire into the alleged acts of “indulgence’ Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu during his tenure as chief minister.

While many people think that Friday, which is 11.11.11 (a sequence that will happen again only a century later) makes the day particularly auspicious, a number of astrologers feel that it’s just another day.

India and Pakistan have evidently decided to turn their backs on their acrimonious past, with Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yousaf Raza Gilani publicly praising one another after an hour-long one-on-one interaction here, and announcing that in their subsequent dialogue they would be even more forthcoming.

An eleventh hour effort by the top brass of the Karnataka unit of the BJP to mollify former minister B. Sreeramulu and persuade him to contest the bypoll to Bellary (ST) Assembly constituency as the party’s nominee came a cropper on Thursday night.

Meeting on the sidelines of the two-day 17th Saarc summit, which opens Thursday, external affairs minister S.M. Krishna and Pakistan’s foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar discussed trade and terrorism issues Wednesday with a view to broadening the two countries’ engagement.