From Elvis Presley’s rendition of Pocketful of Rainbow to Kurt Cobain on Nirvana’s Unplugged in New York album, studio sessions/live concert recordings often give unseen glimpses into an artiste’s personality. Their conversations, one-liners and goof ups — all recorded on tape, gives listeners, even years later, a sense of the person behind the legend — funny, witty and often very engaging. Unfortunately, Indian musicians haven’t tapped into the potential of sessions albums as yet.

Model-turned-actor Aryan Vaid is not having the best Valentine’s season. The actor, who along with his American wife Alexandra entered the reality show Love Lock-up this week seems to be bearing the brunt of the cultural differences between the two of them. A few confrontations turned ugly with some instances of physical aggression even.

CBI sleuths stepped into DMK headquarters Anna Arivalayam here and raided the premises of Kalaignar TV through Thursday night, albeit quietly, in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam. According to sources, seven to eight officials of the CBI’s anti-corruption branch came from New Delhi, entered the Kalaignar TV office

British bookies have made India the favourite team to win the cricket World Cup and that conviction was supported by a £82,000 bet in favour of the co-host lifting the cup. The bet, made by one person (who has not been identified), from outside London, is one of the biggest ever in one-day cricket, Ladbrokes said on Friday. If India wins, the bookmaker would have to give a payout of £246,000.

The CBI on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking inclusion of the charge of criminal conspiracy against BJP and Sangh Parivar leaders, including L.K. Advani and M.M. Joshi, in the Babri masjid demolition case even as the top court had clarified the position of the law on the vital issue in a verdict in March 2007.

In the backdrop of the abduction of the collector of Maoist-hit Malkangiri, home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday interacted with collectors of nearly 60 Naxal-affected districts and asked them to contact him if they face any problem in executing development plans.

In an ironic turn of events the Supreme Court on Friday sought to know the “status” of a complaint sent to the vice-president against NHRC chairman Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, who headed the judiciary till May 2010, on the face of the serious allegations raised against him in a petition.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday appealed the Maoists to extend the deadline set by them for fulfilment of their demands for release of the Malkangiri district collector R. Vineel Krishna and Kudumuluguma block junior engineer Pabitra Mohan Majhi.

Praising national carrier Air India for having rendered historic service to the nation, civil aviation minister Vayalar Ravi said on Friday that he was open to the idea of appointing a third party, like a former judge, to go into grievances of wage disparities that the airline’s unions have.