Story Of The Day Nation Compromise reached on Unique ID project row January 28, 2012 New Delhi, Jan 28 A compromise formula over identity cards for 1.2 billion Indians was worked out Friday with the government asking both the home ministry and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to collect biometric data without any duplication.

A cabinet committee on UIDAI chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh settled the turf war between Home Minister P. Chidambram and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and extended the mandate of UIDAI (which comes under the Planning Commission) to issue 600 million cards in 16 states and union territories.

... READ MORE Nation BJP promises to remodel Mayawati monuments, oppose minority quota January 28, 2012 Lucknow, Jan 28 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promised Friday that if voted to power in Uttar Pradesh it would remodel the multi-billion rupee monuments and parks erected by Chief Minister Mayawati and oppose the UPA government's move for 4.5 percent quota for backward minorities. The party also made a passing reference to its all-time favourite theme of a Ram Temple at Ayodhya.

Flaying Mayawati for devoting various memorials only to a "particular set of personages", the BJP manifesto released here Friday made it loud and clear that if the party were to get voted to power, it would remodel the memorials and add statues of several other great people. The 72-page document was released am... READ MORE

Sports Australia crush India by 298 runs to complete 4-0 whitewash January 28, 2012 Australia wrapped up a 298-run win over India to sweep the series 4-0 early on the final day of the fourth Test at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday.... READ MORE Nation Battered baby remains critical, police hunt for parents January 28, 2012 New Delhi, Jan 28 Doctors Friday did not hold out much hope of recovery of a two-year-old abandoned and battered baby girl who was admitted to a hospital here last week with a fractured skull and human bite marks on her tiny frame as police launched a massive hunt to locate the child's parents.

The baby, Falak, was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here last week w... READ MORE Nation (Opinion) Engaging Taliban a futile exercise January 28, 2012 The United States will be mistaken in believing that it can secure an agreement with the Taliban terror outfit, which is honourable for the people of the war ravaged Afghanistan, and not merely a face saving to its planned withdrawal from the country by 2014. Even though the fundamentalist outfit which for a short period managed to push Afghanistan into the Dark Age has been facilitated to open an... READ MORE

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