Million Dollar Arm! Well, that’s the latest film being shot in Lucknow, to bring a bit of Awadhi flavour to from famous Hollywood director Craig Gillespie latest venture. Deep Saxena reports.
As kids, we all read comic books featuring Chacha Choudhary, the man whose brain worked faster than a computer. But, a small town boy from Madhya Pradesh can put even the fictional genius to shame with his math skills. Milii Sharma reports.
Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said he had given a wish list to India, making pitchfor military and civilian support to his country after the withdrawal of Western forces next year.

The Cong sought to project a unified front ahead of the 2014 polls, as party chief Sonia Gandhi and V-P Rahul Gandhi expressed confidence in Manmohan Singh and declared the PM, too, will be part of the party campaign next year.
Aurangzeb Naqshbandi reports.
Economy turning around; GDP to exceed 6%: PM |
UPA's report cardAn Indian Police Service (IPS) officer in Uttar Pradesh has been transferred a staggering 59 times in his careeer, while 43 of his colleagues have been shifted more than 40 times, a Right To Information (RTI) query has revealed.

The 61-year old 1976 Bihar cadre IAS officer Shashi Kant Sharma replaced Vinod Rai, who superannuated yesterday after a five-and-a-half year eventful tenure as the head of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
Ten people, including one bookie,have been arrested by a special team of Kolkata Police from Ultadanga area in Kolkata for being allegedly involved in a cricket betting racket.
Would the most meritorious engineering aspirants in Madhya Pradesh lose out on the opportunity to get best of seats? Sravani Sarkar finds out.
The university had been deliberating on the issue for a long time and a final decision was taken on Wednesday.
Rahul Gandhi has repeatedly asserted that rebels who contest elections against official nominees should not be re-inducted into the organisation, but the Gujarat Congress has defied this diktat. Aurangzeb Naqshbandi reports.
Leaders of the Congress in West Bengal today met Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath to lodge a complaint against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly violating the model code of conduct ahead of the June 2 Lok Sabha by-poll from Howrah.
NIA today filed a charge sheet against four people including Ram Chandra Kalsangra, who is absconding, for allegedly planning, conspiring and triggering blasts in Malegaon in 2006 that left 37 people dead.
A delegation of 22 Muslim clerics, including from India, would visit the former Nazi Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland this week as part of a Holocaust awareness programme.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and PM Manmohan Singh will today unveil the UPA's last annual report before hitting the next LS polls.
Hindustan Times brings you an exclusive glimpse of what the ruling coalition has to say about its tenure so far.
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More than two years after reserving its verdict, the Delhi high court will today decide whether to prosecute 19 witnesses including Bollywood actor Shyan Munshi on the charge of perjury for turning hostile during the trial of Jessica Lal murder case.