NEW DELHI: Sharat Sabharwal, the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, has been given a six-month extension.A 1975-batch IFS officer, Sabharwal's extension has been approved by the Prime Minister's Office. The High Commissioner was to retire this month end.The extension comes after a "fruitful" visit of External Affairs Minister S M Krishna to Pakistan where he held talks with his...

NEW DELHI: A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs in India (CCPA), which could have decided on raising diesel and cooking fuel prices, was on Tuesday postponed even as Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy said the price increase was "unavoidable".CCPA, which is headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and includes ministers from allies of the UPA alliance,...

MEHSANA, Gujarat: Launching a month-long campaign in poll-bound Gujarat, Chief Minister Narendra Modi today accused Congress of "misusing" the CBI to target him and also demanded that the Prime Minister face a SIT probe in the coal block allocation scam.Seeking a fourth term in office, the BJP stalwart also slammed the Congress for "attacking the constitutional authorities", accusing it...

MUMBAI: Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal today demanded that all the charges against the jailed cartoonist Aseem Trivedi be dropped or else he will sit on protest outside the Arthur Road prison here from Saturday."I spoke to Aseem. By Friday, all the charges should be dropped and he should be freed or else from Saturday onwards we will sit here...

NEW DELHI: Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas was today accorded a grand ceremonial welcome by his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here."...all the time when we come here, we receive warm reception and at the same time, we get everything we ask for, because we believe that we are friends. We are close friends, since a long...

LONDON: Indian writer Jeet Thayil's first novel 'Narcopolis', described as a compelling tale of Mumbai's hazy world of opium addiction, has made it to the six-author short list for the Man Booker Prize 2012 announced today.Apart from 53-year-old Kerala-born Thayil, authors on the short list are Deborah Levy, Hilary Mantel, Alison Moore, Will Self and Tan Twan Eng.The winner...

Shah Rukh Khan, who was shooting for Yash Chopra's untitled directorial project in Kashmir, has wrapped up his schedule there and says he is taking back home some important things that he learnt during his short sojourn in the valley.SRK wrote on Twitter as he bid adieu to Pahalgam: "Leaving Pahalgam. Learnt life's lesson in my forefathers land. Only...

It was reported that Bipasha Basu was mobbed by fans in Ahmedabad while promoting "Raaz 3" and was irritated with the chaos. However, the actress denies such reports."Even I don't know what happened. I have got a lot of love from everywhere, be it Jaipur, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata. So I don't know from where this news came, though there...

After the success of "Jism 2", porn star and Bollywood newcomer Sunny Leone now aims to establish herself as one of the successful mainstream actresses of B-town by dabbling in different kinds of roles in the near future."My full concentration is now on Bollywood. I want to do different and all kinds of roles, especially playing meaningful characters. I...

Priety Zinta is happy that her debut production "Ishkq In Paris" is wrapped up and she thanked the cast and crew for their support."Finally we wrap 'Ishkq In Paris' shooting! Movie is finally over. Cannot believe it! Thank you everyone," tweeted the 37-year-old.Directed by Prem Soni, who earlier worked with Preity Zinta in the Salman Khan-starrer "Main Aur Mrs....