Following striking performances in the recent ODI series against England, flamboyant batsman Yuvraj Singh made a comeback to the Indian Test squad on Thursday. The national selection committee in Chennai also included the left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha in the 15-man squad for the two-Test series.
While Yuvraj replaced the recently-retired Sourav Ganguly, Ojha made it to the squad at the expense of left-arm seamer R P Singh.
Video sharing website YouTube has applied a strict policy to restrict ‘sexually suggestive’ content.
The recent decision of the company promises less sex and more symphonies.
The Google-owned site has announced fresh rules in order to control access to entries having nudeness or a sexual subject but do not constitute pornography.
The new rules will make sexually themed content only available to grownups, and the content will be banished from the website’s more popular pages if the user does not have an account.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday decided to send External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Sri Lanka to press for a ceasefire between forces and LTTE and resumption of dialogue.
"I requested the Prime Minister to send Mukherjee to issue a strong warning to the Sri Lankan Government to announce a ceasefire immediately and to hold peaceful negotiations with them," said M. Karunanidhi at New Delhi after meeting Singh along with a multi-party delegation from the state.
As many as 68 percent voters exercised their franchise for assembly polls in Rajasthan on Thursday.
"The polling percentage is expected to be around 68 percentages as we are still compiling the figures," election commission officials said. Same percent turnout was registered in the 2003 Assembly elections.
There were 43,000 polling stations in 33 districts where 43,000 EVMs were used. Mechanical problems were reported in about 150 EVMs which were replaced immediately, they said.
Rajasthan has a 200 seated assembly with 3.62 crore-strong voters.
The Planning Commission of India called off a visit of its officials to Pakistan last Friday in the wake of the growing tension between the two countries.
The high-level team was all set to visit Pakistan to prepare the ground and finalise dates for plan panel deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia's trip to take the bilateral planning process forward.
The team, headed by secretary, planning, Subhas Pani was scheduled to visit Pakistan last Friday but was asked by the external affairs ministry to call it off at the last minute following the attack on Mumbai.
Following striking performances in the recent ODI series against England, flamboyant batsman Yuvraj Singh made a comeback to the Indian Test squad on Thursday. The national selection committee in Chennai also included the left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha in the 15-man squad for the two-Test series.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in India on Thursday on a three day visit.
Video sharing website YouTube has applied a strict policy to restrict ‘sexually suggestive’ content.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday decided to send External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Sri Lanka to press for a ceasefire between forces and LTTE and resumption of dialogue. 
As many as 68 percent voters exercised their franchise for assembly polls in Rajasthan on Thursday.
The Planning Commission of India called off a visit of its officials to Pakistan last Friday in the wake of the growing tension between the two countries.
