| Shah Rukh caught in gender test row | | Indian officials said on Tuesday they were probing reports Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan knows he and his wife are expecting a baby boy, in a country where prenatal sex tests are banned. | | Kerala sees no respite from solar scam heat | | Abandoning the defensive posture, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) government on Tuesday mounted an offensive against the opposition in the solar panel scam rocking Kerala even as the latter continued their agitation for the resignation of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and a judicial probe into the scam. | | Digvijay tasked with setting AP Congress house in order | | The appointment of senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh as the in-charge of party affairs in Andhra Pradesh has triggered speculation that the UPA leadership is finally moving towards finding a solution to the decades-old separate Telangana statehood issue. | | Student held for ransom calls to MLA | | An engineering student from Gurgaon in Haryana who used to make threatening calls to an Ahmedabad lawmaker to extort Rs1 million from him has been arrested by the Delhi police following a complaint by the influential politician. | | Court nod to split SNC Lavalin graft case | | In a significant judgment, the Kerala high court on Tuesday accepted Communist Party of India (Marxist) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan’s plea for splitting the SNC Lavalin corruption case so that the trial against him could be carried forward in the absence of the accused foreigners. | | Japan experts to OK animal-human embryos test | | Proposed experiments with animal-human embryos cleared the first regulatory hurdle Tuesday, reports said, as scientists seek permission for tests that could see human organs produced inside the growing body of an animal. | | Singapore fumes after pollution hits 16-year high | | Singaporeans rolled back military training, kept cough-stricken children indoors and considered wearing protective masks to work Tuesday after a smoky haze triggered by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia caused air pollution to briefly hit its worst level in nearly 16 years. | |
