Sam Worthington had “hair like Jennifer Aniston” when he was 16. The Australian actor had dreadlocks in his late teenage years, and he admits it may have looked like the former Friends star did when she was famed for her voluminous shoulder-length cut in the 90s.

In Punjab elections, claims and counter-claims, allegations and counter-allegations are making news. In the heart of Malwa (southern Punjab), which sends more than half of the legislators to the state Assembly, there is an issue affecting many lives and has already claimed thousands of lives, but is yet to become a serious poll issue.

The advanced version of the Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA) Lakshya-II was on Friday successfully flight-tested from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, off the Bay of Bengal coast, in Orissa.

A man killed his mother and two sisters and later committed suicide as he was getting recurring dreams in which he was murdered, making him worried as to who will look after his family after him, police here said on Friday.

As scores of people are being treated in local hospitals after they were bitten by stray dogs, whose population in Kashmir Valley has shot up manifold over the past few years, a local pressure group has threatened to launch “kill the rabies” campaign after a fortnight if the authorities fail to check the menace. They will be poisoned or even “beaten to death” by volunteers, it said.

In a major breakthrough, security forces on Friday gunned down a “top” Naxal leader, suspected to be the commander of Mahasamund-Bargarh div-ision, operating in Chhattisgarh’s eastern region bordering Orissa, in an encounter in a forest in Raigarh district, the police claimed.

Six days after top Maoist leader Satish fell to police bullets in Rayagada district, the Orissa police on Thursday night killed Maoist couple Chitrakam Reddy and his wife during an encounter in Badmathur forest in Koraput district.

In what has been an alarming development, a stray leopard on Friday created panic in Guwahati by injuring two people in the fourth incident of its kind in less than one month.

Bird flu, or avian influenza, has resurfaced in Tripura barely within a month of declaring the country free from the disease and culling has started in villages within a 3-km radius of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research at Lambuchera in West Tripura district where it was first detected.

Campaigning for the January 30 Assembly elections in Uttarakhand, which saw heavyweights of major political parties criss-crossing the hill state in spite of snow fall and intense cold, comes to an end on Saturday.