Films that have cities as their characters do much more than a good casting job.

In a revolutionary step, a large team of mathematicians are starting work on a “periodic table” of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions. Taking inspiration from the classic periodic table of chemical elements, this table will link all these multidimensional shapes in relation to their functionality.

After Sohrabuddin Sheikh, Tulsi Prajapati and Ishrat Jahan, the Gujarat police is now facing another alleged fake encounter case — that of Sadiq Jamal Mehtar, who was gunned down by an Ahmedabad police team led by now jailed IPS D.G. Vanjara, a prime accused in all the fake encounter cases and currently in Sabarmati Central Jail.

The CBI, probing the alleged 2G spectrum scam, on Wednesday quizzed Mr Anil Ambani, chairman of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), in connection with the alleged role of his company in promoting Swan Telecom.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday expressed confidence that inflation would fall to seven percent by March and that the country would grow by 8.5 per cent in the current fiscal.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday scotched speculation about his resignation against the backdrop of surfacing of various scams during the tenure of the UPA-II government, saying he would complete his full term. He said his government was not a lame-duck one, nor was he a lame-duck Prime Minister, and that he would restructure the Union Cabinet after the Budget Session of Parliament.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has given its approval to the recent decision by the GoM, headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, on e-auction of FM Phase-hree licences on the lines of 3G telecom licences auction.

The Central Water Commission(CWC) is on a war path with the Central Information Commission (CIC) over their refusal to make public the guidelines under which it makes assessments of backwater flooding caused by the building of large dams and hydroelectric projects.

Upping its ante, New Delhi will seek “parity” with Islamabad on the latter’s demand to send a judicial commission to India when Union home secretary G.K. Pillai meets his counterpart Pakistan interior secretary Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, for the home-secretary level talks between India and Pakistan to be held in March end. The home