The recent land swap agreement between India and Bangladesh may spill into a major controversy in Assam as no agency on the ground knows from where the 1,240 acres of land that chief minister Tarun Gogoi claims to have retrieved from Bangladesh in South Assam’s Karimganj sector will actually come.

The uniqueness in Mexican band, Paté de Fuá’s works emerges from the fact that their musical repertoire is full of characters and stories that are wrapped in its plot of ironies and pessimistic humour.

Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond, who returned to a five-year-term with a majority of 69 out of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament in the May 5 election, now insists that Scotland will soon become an independent nation.

“I can’t believe that I am addressing the media wearing my cycling shorts,” giggles Indian Formula One racer Karun Chandhok, as he finished a cycling expedition with young enthusiasts in the capital Sunday morning.

Team Anna dismissed Swami Agnivesh’s allegations saying that he might be levelling such accusations “out of anger” as he was removed from the Team following the surfacing of a video clip which purportedly showed him asking a

US secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned top Pakistani leaders on Thursday that there was no “middle way out” in the war against terrorism, and said they needed to prove they did not have any connections with the terror networks, official sources said.

The chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advi-sory Council, Dr C. Rang-arajan, on Thursday said that in the present time of high inflation the primary focus of the RBI should be to bring down prices, and not look at growth.

It was a slightly troublesome day for Congress MP Rahul Gandhi who was on a one-day visit to his constituency Amethi on Thursday. Mr Gandhi’s convoy was forcibly stopped by a group of people who were demanding that only candidates

`60 crores was allegedly spent on building Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s bungalow at Lotus Pond in Jubilee Hills and another `25 crores was spent on purchasing the land.

A senior BSP minister and a BSP legislator, in different incidents, have been charged with rape, causing considerable embarrassment to an already beleaguered Mayawati government.