Malayalam poet K. Satchidanandan and Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi have figured in the list of probables for this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature that is to be announced in a few days. The list, where Satchidanandan (33/1) ranks 18, has been put out on British betting firm Ladbrokes’ website.

In what can be said as a significant move that could help India reduce the scarcity of doctors to a certain extent, the Union health ministry has made a move to make an amendment in the present act to facilitate foreign national doctors practice in India. As of now, these doctors can come to teach or

India and Afghanistan signed a wide-ranging strategic partnership here on Tuesday, a move that is unlikely to go down well with Islamabad at a time when its ties with Kabul have soured. The agreement envisions bilateral ties on an altogether different and broader plane, encompassing areas such as security and economic cooperation.

The Delhi police has arrested a 36-year-old woman who was wanted by the Chhattisgarh police.

Anna Hazare is emerging as a crusader against the Congress but is seen soft about the BJP and its state governments on the issue of corruption. On Tuesday, he announced he would campaign against the Congress candidate in the Hisar Lok Sabha bypolls scheduled for October 13.

The CBI may file separate FIRs in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the award of spectrum licences since 2001, which covered the stint of three former communications ministers, including late Pramod Mahajan, Arun Shourie and Dayanidhi Maran.

India has approached Portugal’s Supreme Court of Justice to challenge the verdict of the high court of Lisbon terminating the extradition of 1993 Mumbai serial blast accused Abu Salem.

As a lot of heat and dust is being raised on the Planning Commission’s affidavit to the Supreme Court on determining the new poverty line based on a day’s earning of `32 by person, the parameters of poverty seems to have lost any meaning for country’s policy planners as the average income of a minister in the Manmohan Singh government has increased by `3.3 crores during the last two years.

The Centre on Tuesday asked the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat to provide adequate security to arrested Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and his family members. Mr Bhatt had levelled allegations against chief minister Modi in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots.

New Delhi and Kabul appear all set to give a boost to their trade and economic ties with the signing of the strategic partnership agreement as well as two other pacts that provide for cooperation in the fields of mineral development and hydrocarbons.