Kamal Nath, union minister of commerce & industry, would be representing the Prime Minister at the 7th Association of South East Nations (ASEAN)-India Summit and the fourth East Asia Summit, which is scheduled to be held during April 11 – 12, 2009 in Thailand.

ASEAN held these summits on a yearly basis.

Leaders of state/government of the 10 ASEAN member nations in addition to its dialogue associates including India, China, Japan, Korea, etc attended the summits.

Just after it came out that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is planning to kidnap or assassinate India’s top scientists, the Government of India beefed up the security of its prominent scientists. The government on Sunday provided "Z" category security to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair, and "Y" category security to six other notable space scientists.

Popular Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue has got another reason to be back in the news. Perhaps, this time she is in the news for breaking the heart of none other than Bollywood King Khan i.e. Shah Rukh Khan.  

The Aussie sensation was in Mumbai to shoot for a song the forthcoming Bollywood movie ‘Blue’. It is learnt that the Aussie singer had made it clear that she would not meet anyone at the studio while she was at work. So when SRK contacted Kylie for a meeting, he returned empty handed.

Powered by a tidy bowling performance, South Africa registered a comprehensive seven wicket win over Australia in a crucial tie here on Sunday. With this win, South Africa has leveled the five-match one-day international (ODI) series at 1-1.

Batting first, the star-studded Aussie batting line-up started a disastrous start as they lost half of their side of mere 19 runs. From Australia, Callum Ferguson scored the highest 50 runs while Mitchell Johnson also contributed a useful 30 runs for the team. Both Ferguson and Johnson scored a crucial 63 runs partnership for the seventh wicket.

Here is a wake-up call for the Congress party in Gujarat.

A group of Youth Congress members burnt an effigy of AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi in City Light area of Surat on Sunday morning.

These members charged Rahul for selecting wrong people to oversee the recently held Youth Congress elections in Surat.

It is learnt that the activists, led by Rajesh Jain, who was a candidate for the elections from the Majura gate constituency and lost the polls after garnering just five votes shouted slogans against Rahul Gandhi.

Yusuf Abdullah, the South African pace bowler, will be joining the King's XI Punjab squad to replace the injured West Indies pace bowler Jerome Taylor for the upcoming second season of the IPL.

Speaking on this, an elated Abdullah said, “I'm quite excited about the upcoming challenge. The IPL is in town and this is a good opportunity for me, hopefully I can do well.”