The ongoing power crisis in Tamil Nadu is increasing day by day. Household and industrial supply of electricity is adversely affected due to the acute shortage of power in the state. The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) has decided to impose a compulsory two-day power holiday for both the heavy and light industries to control the situation.

London, Dec 31: Having really bad mood swings? Well, don't blame the weather, your love handles or your job, for the culprit is your friend, says new study.

Yes, you heard it right, moods are strongly influenced by those around us, says research.

When friends smile, people smile with them. And when they are low, people tend to feel sorry for themselves too.

CBI sources said that the CBI officer, who investigated the Tapasi Malik murder case in Singur, was arrested, on Sunday for taking bribe from an accused in a murder case.

Partho Sarathi Bose, DSP, Special Crime Branch of CBI, was arrested in front of an electronics shop in Ultadanga, in north Kolkata, by a six-member CBI Anti Corruption branch team which had come from Delhi.

The sources said that Bose was arrested while taking a bribe of Rs 50,000 from Avtar Singh,  an accused in the murder of a Directorate of Revenue Intelligence officer Tarun Dutta.

A complaint was lodged this year by Singh, in December , that Bose was demanding money from him. A trap was there after laid.

A 20 year old, first year student of Baldwin College, was shot dead early in the morning on Sunday when he intruded into the Flag Staff House in Bangalore.

Army guards shot him as they thought him to be a terrorist when he entered a Brigadier's residence and there after tried to flee.

The student, identified as Mohammad Mukarram, was drag racing with some of his friends on MG Road when the police chased them away.

Mukarram ran and entered the Flag Staff House.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) , BK Singh,  said that the student did not surrender when asked to do so by the sentries and they thus fired three rounds.

Police said that Mukarram was taken to a hospital but he succumbed to his injuries.

Washington, December 30 : Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's teenage daughter Bristol has given birth to a son.

This comes months after the announcement of 18-year-old's pregnancy became one of the first dark clouds to swirl over Palin's 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidacy.

Bristol gave birth to Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on Sunday. The baby 7 pounds, 4 ounces.

London, Dec 29: An inquiry has been launched after a British citizen of Pakistani origin flew out of the UK on his sister's passport.

Kasim Raja, 26, had his travel documents checked twice by staff at Birmingham International Airport, but they did not notice the picture and details were that of his sister Samina, 22.

He flew to Islamabad, but was stopped by airport security there last weekend, held for two hours then deported, The Sun reported.

Property developer Raja, of Moseley, Birmingham, said: "I was in a rush and grabbed what I thought was my passport as I left home. It doesn't say much for airport security - I don't look anything like my sister. I flew for 7½ hours then had to fly home."