A national conference of the Bharatiya J

The Oberoi management has announced that the the Trident hotel in Mumbai's Nariman point will open on Sunday, December 21.

The management and staff are working round the clock to ensure that the hotel is ready to receive guests soon.

When the hotel reopens additional security will be put in place. The local law enforcement agencies have also been requested to extend all assistance.

'A round-the-clock effort is underway by the management and staff to ensure that the hotel is ready to receive guests,' said the Oberoi group.

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.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in India on Thursday on a three day visit.

The visit is aimed at strengthening ties in defence and nuclear energy.

Medvedev was due to have dinner with Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh before holding a full day of high level meetings on Friday.

During his visit, Medvedev will have talks with Indian Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan  Singh.

He is scheduled to meet his Indian counterpart Pratibha Patil and Vice President Hamid Ansari.

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.