Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday asked for a thorough investigation into the militant attack on law minister Ali Mohammad Sagar at his home in Srinagar a day earlier that killed his bodyguard.

Actress Lindsay Lohan’ Playboy issue, which was to come out in January, is going to be released early after the nude pictures were leaked online, said the magazine's owner Hugh Hefner.

Australian captain Michael Clarke is a worried man ahead of the gruelling Test series against India as he feels his players are performing only in patches and this inconsistency was letting them down badly.

After the sugar rush of shows like Koffee With Karan & Friends and Simpering Simi, the idea of Love2HateU (Star World) seemed interesting. Pick a celebrity, find that celebrity’s hater and put the two in a room for a chintan baithak.

President Pratibha Patil will inaugurate a renovated railway station in Amravati and flag off a new bi-weekly train as part of her four-day visit to Vidrabha, which begins on Saturday, officials said.

As it negotiates a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with India, Israel has exuded confidence that the landmark pact will help treble the bilateral trade which is set to touch $6 billion 2011.

The seven directors of tragedy-hit AMRI Hospital was on Saturday sent to police custody till December 20. The directors, Radhe Shyam Goenka, Prashant Goenka, Manish Goenka, Shrawan Kumar Todi, Ravi Todi, Dayanand Aggarwal and Radhe Ahyam Aggarwal surrendered at the police station on Friday evening. They were later arrested for negligence and culpable homocide.

Yoga guru Swami Ramdev on Saturday extended his support to the fight against illegal mining in Goa and warned of a hunger strike if the Congress-led government in the state did not come clean on the issue.

Negotiators from Europe, tiny islands threatened by rising oceans and the world's poorest countries sought to keep alive the only treaty governing global warming and move to the next stage, struggling against an unlikely alliance of the United States, China and India.

Ahead of his day-long fast for a strong Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare on Saturday launched a vitriolic attack on the government, charging that it was "intoxicated" by power and said the "second fight for independence" has started which will go on till corruption is eradicated.