Pakistan will overtake Indonesia as the world’s most numerous Muslim nation by 2030 while the Muslim minority in mostly Hindu India will retain its global rank as the third largest Muslim population, suggests a report.

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the government what it was doing about Indians with large amounts of black money in Swiss banks and other tax havens as it sought to broaden the ambit of its probing queries and demanded an “action taken” report on all “faceless” Indians who had moved their ill-gotten money overseas.

With the Centre facing increasing flak over the appointment of central vigilance commissioner P.J. Thomas, Union law minister M. Veerappa Moily met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday evening to brief him on various options before the government on the matter. Sources said a decision on the CVC’s possible removal or replacement would be taken soon by the PMO.

“I was troubled by my family for revealing too much of the family history,” said Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk at the launch of his new book, The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist (Hamish Hamilton), at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on Thursday evening. Pamuk was talking about his memoir, Istanbul: Memories and the City in a conversation with journalist and TV presenter Sunil Sethi.

A 25-year-old man died and his two associates were injured when their speeding car rammed into a central road verge in Hazrat Nizamuddin area on Wednesday night.
The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Javed, a resident of Pushp Vihar. “His friends, Danish, 23, and Charan Singh, 28, are in hospital. The accident took place at 1.10 am,” said a senior police officer.

A hoax call of blowing up the Rajiv Chowk Metro Station on Thursday sent the police and security forces into a tizzy.
The call was received at 2.51 pm and commuters were stopped from entering the station at 3.12 pm. The police did the required security checks as per set procedures and bomb disposal squads were rushed to the station.

An unidentified robber was killed, while his aide escaped on a police motorcycle during their exchange of fire with the police in Noida on Thursday.
The incident occurred around 1.15 pm when the police in Sector-82 received a call that two bike-borne robbers had snatched cash from a person and were escaping.

A six-year-old boy was charred to death in a blaze that broke out at a night-shelter in Meena Bazar area of central Delhi on Thursday morning.
The fire officials said the blaze started at the night-shelter at around 6.15 am on Thursday following which a call was made to Delhi Fire Service,

Finding itself pushed to the wall on the issue of rising incidence of suicide by farmers, the Madhya Pradesh government has decided to waive recovery of revenue for the year 2011 from all the account-holder farmers, who have lost more than 25 per cent of their rabi crop due to extreme cold wave and frost.

Questioning how prohibitory order can be imposed on the Republic Day to prevent people from hoisting the national flag, the main Opposition BJP is considering initiating legal action against the Omar Abdullah government for “illegally confining” its senior leaders at the Jammu airport. Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha