Say this for the ministry of culture under the Congress-led UPA rule: it has summoned the extraordinary capacity to work on a process the Vajpayee-led NDA government could not contemplate in view of the political sensitivity of the enterprise — the calculated crippling of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), a world-famous institution of scholarship established to commemorate the modernist vision of India’s first Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced the institution of an annual international award to mark the sesquicentennial celebrations of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.

A 35-year-old man was found dead in his WagonR car in New Ashok Nagar on Friday morning with the police suspecting that the victim allegedly perished to the toxic gases released by the air conditioner of the car.

It was high drama in the Patiala House court complex since Friday morning as 43-year-old Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK chief M. Karunanidhi, appeared on Friday at 10 am, sharp.

A 20-year-old student of Manav Rachna University in Faridabad was stabbed to death in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area on Thursday night.
The police said the victim, Shobhit Modi, a second year student of engineering, was found stabbed outside gate number 3 of C-5, Vasant Kunj, by unidentified assailants. The security guard saw him lying near the gate but owing to darkness due to powercut following rains, he presumed that the boy was drunk.

The Congress is distancing itself from the DMK on the 2G scam, suggesting that the latter will have to fight the legal and political battle on its own. The Dravadian party, which had failed to play a role of the “king maker” like TDP leader N. Chadrababu Naidu had played during the NDA regime and the Marxists in the UPA-I, is getting marginalised at the Centre.

If a rogue asteroid careens towards earth, as Hollywood thrillers Armageddon and Deep Impact have speculated, will humankind be able to destroy it before it causes awesome devastation? Student Nitin Mishra has some answers and he will espouse them before top space scientists when they meet at Bucharest in Romania next week to exchange notes on the “near-earth” flyby of asteroid 2005 YU 55.

The Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the 2G spectrum scam has revealed that the transfer of `200 crores to Chennai-based Kalaignar TV, allegedly by a company linked to Shahid Balwa, was a “quid pro quo” for Swan Telecom getting Unified Access Service (UAS) licence at a nominal price.

India seems to be high on the list of international reality TV show makers. Union information and broadcasting ministry has recently approved the application of three international reality TV shows for shooting in India.

Despite claims to the contrary, the feud within the DMK’s first family was brought to the limelight, once again, during the submission made by noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani while defending DMK chief Karunanidhi’s daughter Ms Kanimozhi on Friday, in the special CBI court.