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• Guwahati Shuts Down After Dusk Fearing Bombings 
• Tamil Nadu to get $485 million Loan from World Bank 
• Poll Panel Notices to Amarinder, Badal 
• Cellular Roaming Charges Reduced in India  
• Tension Grips Kashmir Ahead of Republic Day 
• Kashmiri Model Absolved of Terror Charges 
• BJP Counters PM on 'Minority Appeasement' Issue 

India-Russia to Co-develop Midrange Transport Aircraft
India and Russia Wednesday agreed to jointly develop a multi-role transport aircraft (MTA) amid indications that Moscow's proposal to co-develop a fifth generation combat jet was making progress. The two countries have also agreed to the licensed production in India of the RD-33 engines that power the frontline MiG-29 fighters of the Indian Air Force. They also discussed Russia's offer of the advanced MiG-35 jet to meet the IAF's requirement of multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA). The RD-33 engine also powers the MiG-35. Read On >>>

Risk-taker Putin is India's Friend
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has shepherded the rebirth of Russia as a global power and energy giant, is just the man India would like to do business with. For Putin is an instinctive risk-taker and at the same time an establishment man. He symbolizes the two strains in a new Russia that is pushing hard to reclaim its place in the global sun and also trying to retain its traditions that give it a distinctive identity. Read On >>>

Bush Urges Congress to Support Plan for Iraq
Trying to persuade a skeptical Congress to support sending more troops to Iraq, President George W. Bush warned that if the US fails, sectarian violence could spill over into an "epic battle" between Sunnis and Shias in a wider regional conflict. Bush has begun deploying the first of 21,500 more troops to Iraq as part of his revised strategy ... Read On >>>
Bush Makes 'Green' Speech in Iraq's Shadow 

• Pressure Mounts on Israeli President to Quit
• Incredible India saw 4.43 mn Foreign Tourists 
• Child Swapping Incident in Hyderabad
• Free Software Tools for Indian Languages Released
• Heavy Snowfall Disrupts Traffic, Power in Austria, France 

Kumaraswamy spends Night with HIV Positive Family 
Gowrava Mathapati meticulously decorated her two-room house, invited her English-speaking spiritual guru there and was nearly sleepless for four nights before Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy spent a night with her family to dispel stigma against HIV positive people. "We had never seen a chief minister so closely and were happy to host him in our house. We had been preparing for his visit for the last four days," she said. Read On >>>
Karnataka's Free Health Insurance to Poor 

N-energy, Business on Mind, Putin Lands Thursday by Manish Chand
President Vladimir Putin arrives here Thursday on a two-day visit that will recast time-tested ties between a resurgent Russia and India with renewed focus on business ties and nuclear energy. Putin will be chief guest at the Republic Day parade Friday - an honor that will underline India's keen desire to cement traditional ties with Russia which has reinvented itself as an energy power riding high on a nearly trillion dollar economy. Read On >>>

Punjab Chief Minister's Family is Worth Rs.1 Billion
Touted among the top political families of Punjab, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's immediate clan is worth, by his own admission, almost Rs.1 billion (Rs.100 crore). In contrast, Amarinder Singh's main political opponent and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Parkash Singh Badal, accused of amassing wealth worth nearly Rs.35 billion (Rs.3,500 crore) and facing corruption charges, claims he and his family have cash and assets of about Rs.100 million (Rs.10 crore). Read On

Varanasi Cries for Help
It is a question of 2.4 million empty plastic bottles dumped on a helpless city, and Varanasi, the cultural capital of India, doesn't even have regular garbage collection! The Hindu holy city along the Ganges attracts roughly 2.5 million tourists annually, out of which 40,000 are foreigners. By simple calculation, for a stay of two days, every tourist requires on an average three bottles of water. This works out to a staggering 2.4 million empty bottles per year. Read On >>>

• Mom's Match Point Rubs Off on Daughter   
• Indo-Canadian Woman Goes Naked to Protest Fur Coats
• Indian Origin Scientist Helps Make Cheap Vaccines 
• Sikhs in Malaysia Set Up Biz Network 
• Thousands to play Table Tennis in Tiananmen
• Internet Use in China Jumps 25 Percent 
• Assam Rebels Kill Congress Leader
• Nod for Jatropha Project for Himachal

Vedanta to Pump in Rs.100 bn for Balco Expansion by Sujeet Kumar
The London-based metal and mining major Vedanta Resources plc, which has completed a Rs.45 billion expansion of Bharat Aluminium Co Ltd (Balco) here, will further pump in about Rs.100 billion ($2.26 billion) to further increase its production capacity. Read On >>>

Democrats Rebuff Bush Call to Support Iraq Troop Surge 
Congressional Democrats rebuffed US President George W. Bush's call to support his plan to increase the American presence in Iraq and accused Bush of "recklessly" leading the US into the war. "The president took us into this war recklessly," said senator Jim Webb, who is all set to deliver the Democratic response to Bush's state of the union address. "We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable ­ and predicted ­ disarray that has followed." A copy of the speech was made available Tuesday before delivery. Read On >>>