Former Australian spinner Stuart MacGill has nominated himself for the Indian Premier League (IPL) player auction in February, following his return to Twenty20 cricket after eight years.

Anna Hazare on Monday prepared to take on the UPA government over his insistence on a strong Lokpal with a three-day hunger strike in Mumbai starting on Tuesday but he came under attack from the political class which dubbed him impatient and his protest premature.

Japan's response to the nuclear crisis that followed the March 11 tsunami was confused and riddled with problems, including an erroneous assumption an emergency cooling system was working and a delay in disclosing dangerous radiation leaks, a report revealed on Monday.

Showing no signs of relenting, Anna Hazare on Monday said he will go ahead with his three-day fast in Mumbai from tomorrow against a "weak" Lokpal Bill with his team raising the pitch for an independent probe agency for the ombudsman saying it was "non-negotiable" even as government asked him to wait till Parliament decides on the legislation.

In their most high-profile attack on the TRS president, Telangana Telugu Desam Forum MLAs on Saturday challenged Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao to “join them in hanging themselves for the Telangana cause”.

Taking the gloves off, Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu has decided to directly target TRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao as it tries to recover lost ground in the bypolls in Telangana.

The Kui Samaj Samanwaya Samiti (KSSS), an apex body of local Kui tribe in Kandhamal district, has “partially” called off its proposed four-day bandh call following protracted talks with senior government officials, bringing some amount of relief to the worried state administration.

Health and medical services were crippled across the state with government doctors going on strike and resident doctors at the medical college hospitals joining them. The state government toughened its stand on medical strikes and employed doctors provided by the Army, BSF, railways and Central government departments.

The CBI grilled key suspect Sahiram Bishnoi in Bhanwari Devi case on Saturday while the CBI court in Jodhpur has extended the judicial custody of sacked minister Mahipal Maderna and Parasram Bishnoi till January 6. A section of Jat leaders, meanwhile, came openly in support of Maderna and questioned the decision to handing over probe to the CBI.

The NDA is fuming over allegedly distasteful comments by a senior RJD leader about Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and the ruling JD(U)’s women’s wing.