Two of Karnataka’s most famous sons — one a former IT czar who holds the key to the Congress’ re-election through an innovative direct benefit transfer scheme, the other a former India cricket captain — could be facing off against each other in the parliamentary polls in 2014 for the city’s prestigious Bangalore South seat.

Play a cricket team from Pakistan these days, and you are bound to run into Misbah-ul Haq. The 39-year-old underlined his value yet again in the opening game of the Champions League T20 qualifiers against the Otago Volta with an unflustered innings even though the Faislabad Wolves crashed to an eight-wicket defeat at the PCA Stadium here on Tuesday.

It was a story of leaders showing their men the way on the opening day of the Champions League T20 qualifiers here on Tuesday. Shikhar Dhawan helped see the Sunrisers Hyderabad home in a testing chase after Kandurata Maroons skipper Lahiru Thirimanne too had sparkled with the bat.

In what has come as shock, a 12-year-old girl was gangraped in an abandoned house by five minor boys in Guwahati.
Senior superintendent of police, Guwahati, Anand Prakash Tiwari told this newspaper that they have arrested five accused who were later found to be minors after a bone-marrow test.

A member in-charge of cyber security of a prestigious national security body was in for a rude shock when he found he was defrauded of `19 lakh electronically in an apparent hacker attack.

In an attempt to cash in on the anger against the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh over the communal riots, the BJP is planning a series of rallies of its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from next month in the run-up to the general polls.

Actress Esha Deol on Monday stirred a row when she virtually linked rape incidents to provocative clothing worn by the victims.

He may have been named only recently as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, but on his 63rd birthday on Tuesday, Mr Narendra Modi received some very “presidential” greetings.

BJP patriarch L.K. Advani, who had been sulking over Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s elevation as the party’s prime ministerial candidate for the general polls, wished the Gujarat chief minister on Tuesday on his 63rd birthday.

The five youth who are accused of gangraping a 19-year-old telephone operator at the defunct Shakti Mills on July 31 and also suspected to have victimised several other girls ended up leaving behind a crucial piece of evidence that the police will now use to nail them in the case.