- Ruling DMK on Wednesday held state-wide protests against AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa for seeking “frequent adjournments” in a disproportionate wealth case against her.Rawat said his department had launched ‘Kanya Vivah Yojana’ to provide financial help to those who marry after the age of 18 years.
- Bihar is one of the hotspots of child marriage in the country and on average marriages of 67 per cent of girls below 18 years of age are solemnised every year, State Minister for Social Welfare Damodar Rawat said.
- Kerala cabinet on Wednesday decided to lease out 40 acres of land to public sector Mazagon Dock Ltd. for setting up a National Institute of Warship Design Centre.
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's motorcade was not attacked by a grenade on Wednesday, an official in his media office said, explaining that an explosion was from a "firecracker."
- President Barack Obama is becoming increasingly strident in defending his top domestic priority — job creation.Unfortunately for countries such as India, this has come to mean the controversy over outsourcing rearing its ugly head with heightened frequency.
- Singapore: Malaysia is planning to introduce a Visa Facilitation System (VFS) for tourists from India and China. This follows a decision to revoke the Visa on Arrival (VOA) scheme for visitors to Malaysia from several countries. The VOA scheme was discontinued in respect of Indian nationals in 2008.
- Neuroscientists at the University of California are inching closer to a new brain-mapping method which they claim will help pinpoint a person's talents just by looking at the landscape of his or her mind. Professor Richard Haier, a psychologist who led the research, said that science remained vague but eventually it could be used to guide your career choice.
- US President Barack Obama, who sees Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration, has asked young African leaders to follow the legendary Indian icon to bring the changes they want in their continent.
- Milestone man Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday became the most-capped Test cricketer in the world after taking field for his 169th match, the third and final of the ongoing series against Sri Lanka, here.
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