Outwitting an armed assailant who targeted people using a urinal in Hari Nagar area, the west Delhi police on Friday evening arrested the accused and recovered a pistol from his possession.

The regional sales manager of a firm was arrested with six others, including two postgraduate youth, for allegedly robbing an NRI in East of Kailash area, the police said on Saturday.

H.M. NAQVI’S genre-busting debut Homeboy won the first DSC Prize for South Asian Literature at a ceremony organised here on Saturday morning. Homeboy, published by HarperCollins, examines the life of Muslims in America in the wake of 9/11 through a rollicking narrative that “blends street slang with literary discourse, pop culture with politics.”

Ayaan and I have been playing together since we were six years old under Abba’s guidance (Amjad Ali Khan), but the interesting part is that we began by playing solo till we discovered the “power of two”. And then there was no looking back!

This is for all dance music buffs. Antiquity Club Fusion is bringing the most sought after DJs from the US and the UK for a five-city tour across India, promising to set dance floors on fire. And first up was the sultry DJ Diamond, who kicked off the ACF tour with a joint performance with DJ Whosane. The result: A thumping combination of house music with some Bollywood numbers.

Www.fun2play.com was an addictive site that guaranteed hours of compelling, and intensely competitive word play with perfect strangers somewhere on the net. Sadly, one day the site spoke of shutting down, and soon after, my favourite ‘Word Prospector’ was gone. Years later, in a reminiscent moment, I logged on again, and found the site active and reinvented. It’s now something of a click through window to the wide world of word games events, on-line games, vocabulary enablers, suggested sites of

West Bengal governor M.K. Narayanan on Friday expressed deep concern on the support Maoists were getting from civil society. “Maoism is becoming a fashionable trend in different states, including West Bengal, and students in universities are getting attracted,” he said. He was addressing a security seminar organised by CII.

Communications minister Kapil Sibal on Friday came in for sharp criticism from the Supreme Court for his assertion that the Comptroller and Auditor-General’s projection of a `1.76 lakh crore loss in the sale of 2G spectrum licences was erroneous, with the court describing his statement as “unfortunate and irresponsible” while the matter was being investigated by the CBI.

Former 33 Corps chief Lt. Gen. P.K. Rath was on Friday found guilty of committing irregularities in the Sukna land case by an Army court martial in Shillong, making him the highest-ranking serving armed forces officer ever to be indicted by a court martial.