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New Delhi, Aug 27 : A brief ruckus was witnessed in the Rajya Sabha Saturday as members expressed dissatisfaction over Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's opening speech on the Lokpal debate in the lower house not being made available in Hindi.

As Mukherjee, after delivering his speech in the Lok Sabha was set to do so in the upper house, several agitated members demanded a Hindi translation of the statement.

New Delhi, Aug 27 :Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj Saturday said Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's unscheduled intervention in the Lok Sabha suggesting an autonomous Lokpal "poured cold water on" the statesmanship shown by the prime minister in breaking the logjam.

She also charged that house norms were relaxed to allow Gandhi to make a long speech.

Lucknow, Aug 27: Expressing solidarity with Anna Hazare, a young farmer of Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district lay down on a bed of thorns for 10 hours.

Satya Narayan, 25, a native of Mathura's Tarauli village, some 300 km from Lucknow, went on his quaint form of protest in Kosikala town Friday.

"From today (Saturday) onwards, I would lay on the bed for a longer time period, and would consume only hot water till Annaji breaks his fast," Narayan told reporters.

New Delhi, Aug 27 : Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Saturday reiterated the government's commitment to bring an "appropriate" legislation to eradicate corruption in the country. He asked MPs to discuss three key demands on the Lokpal bill raised by Anna Hazare.

He asked the MPs to discuss whether:

Srinagar, Aug 27 : Known for airing his views in an unrestrained, often tongue-in-cheek style, and taking prompt steps to address grievances on Twitter, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's curious absence from the virtual world for almost a week was sorely felt by the twitterati.

Abdullah did not post even a single comment on the micro blogging site from Aug 19 to Aug 25.

He is followed on the website by over 46,000 people, many of them are journalists, civil servants, businessmen and local youngsters.

Washington, August 27: NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured raw images of Hyperion on August 25, when the space craft flew past Saturn's oddly shaped moon at a distance of about 15,500 miles (25,000 kilometres), making this the second closest encounter.

Hyperion is a small moon -- just 168 miles (270 kilometres) across. It has an irregular shape and surface appearance, and it rotates chaotically as it tumbles along in orbit.