It was little over a month ago that I saw Amita Malik painfully walking up the few steps to the lounge at the India International Centre, Delhi's watering hole for the culturati. She let out a long sigh, greeting me with a feeble smile and said: 'I don't know how long I can do this.' This doyenne of women journalists — one whose scathing pen had those on its receiving end trembling and often in tears — could barely speak. Her shoulders showed signs of resignation: it was not a happy shrug, even though her 87 years did not sit too badly on her.

The armed clash between soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles (BR) and the army in Dhaka on Wednesday is a disturbing event for several reasons.

India is set to enter a rare global club with the manufacture of a 40,000-tonne aircraft carrier that can carry 30 fighters and helicopters.

A formal keel-laying ceremony is slated for the weekend, and the ship should join the navy in 2014.

India is the first Asian country and probably the fourth in the world to build such a large and complex warship. The others to have built aircraft carriers of this size or bigger in recent times are the United States, France and Russia.

India watches with growing alarm as the situation in neighbouring Bangladesh grows volatile. South Block hopes that the nation's civilian government will be able to diffuse the situation without the army having to turn its guns on the border guards of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR). Should that happen, the new civilian government of Sheikh Hasina might find itself destablised.

It's still February, but the mercury has touched 40.4ºC in Orissa's capital Bhubaneswar. Wednesday's temperature was the highest in the last 45 years. There was marginal relief on Thursday when the mercury came down to 38.5ºC.

London, February 27: The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has found in a survey that almost three quarters of parents are worried about the content of video games, and want that the gaming industry be regulated independently.

Conducted by YouGov on behalf of the BBFC, the survey revealed that most parents in the UK thought that video games should be given the same kind of age classifications as films are granted, and an independent body should be created for the purpose.