Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is ready leave power if Nato provides him security guarantees, a media report said on Tuesday.

Team India have a “Save Dhoni” campaign ahead of them if they want to pre-empt a ban on their skipper in the Lord’s Test against England, beginning July 21.

In a bid to mount pressure on the Centre for an early decision on separate Telangana, 37 ruling Congress MLAs, including four ministers, and 28 TDP MLAs from the region on Monday resigned their membership of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.

Former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra said on Monday that he does not want to return to power, after his sister Yingluck won a landslide general election victory.

In a pre-dawn strike, Maoists posing as CRFP personnel attacked a village in the district on Saturday, leaving six villagers dead.

Veteran gandhian and former Union minister Daulatram Saran on Saturday died here after prolonged illness. The 87-year-old Jat leader, hailing from Sardarshahr in Churu was the Union urban development minister in Chandra Shekhar’s government. He was also the agriculture minister in 1957 in the Rajasthan government.

Out of favour batsman Chris Gayle said he is not ready to be the West Indies Cricket Board’s whipping boy and dismissed as “sham and mockery” the reconciliation efforts made so far.

Neelam Grover, mother of slain television executive Neeraj Grover, says that she fears a threat to her life from Kannada actress Mariah Susairaj, who was released from jail on Saturday after being acquitted in her son’s murder case.

The leader of the association of Indian-origin students in Australia who protested attacks against Indians in Melbourne has been given the 2011 Young Victorian of the Year award.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton told Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Saturday to abandon power and said rebels are gaining strength after he threatened attacks on Europe.