In the aftermath of 26/11, diplomats from U.S., Australia, New Zealand, U.K. and Canada had decided not to get “sucked into” the Indo-Pak blame game and stop short of blasting India on the huge intelligence failure, disclosures by WikiLeaks show, according to New Zealand media. A confidential cable released by WikiLeaks relating to the Mumbai terror attack relates to the international response to the deadly incident that killed 183 people, including foreigners.

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Leaving the house on an empty stomach increases the risk of potentially deadly heart disease, says a new research. It shows that regularly skipping breakfast leads to obesity, larger fat stores around the stomach and higher cholesterol levels – all major risk factors for heart disease, reports the Daily Mail . It also triggers higher insulin levels in the blood, a warning sign that diabetes could soon set in.

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Despite pending economic catastrophe, Pakistan is producing nuclear weapons at a faster rate than any other country in the world, U.S. ambassador to Islamabad, Anne Patterson is believed to have said in a cable to Washington. American and British diplomats fear Pakistan’s nuclear programme could lead to fissile material falling into the hands of terrorists or a devastating nuclear exchange with India.

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MADRID (Reuters) - Seven men have been arrested in Barcelona, accused of providing fake identification documents to al Qaeda-linked groups including the one that carried out the Mumbai attacks in 2008, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. Six Pakistanis and one Nigerian were arrested on Tuesday and early Wednesday accused of stealing passports and other travel documents from tourists in Barcelona and sending them to Thailand where they were falsified and passed to extremist organised crime groups, it said in a press release.

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India on Wednesday denied visa to former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. Musharraf was invited to attend a seminar hosted by the Young Presidents Organization. The conference was scheduled to be held in Delhi on Saturday. Sources close to Home Ministry revealed that government doubted Musharraf’s real intentions of visiting India. Musharraf’s recent statements defending Kargil operations may also be a behind the denial of visa.

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Wipro said on Wednesday its chairman Azim Premji [ Images ] will transfer 213 million equity shares of the company to a trust controlled by him. Premji will transfer 213,000,000 equity shares of Wipro [ Get Quote ], held by entities controlled by him, to an irrevocable trust, Wipro said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

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SIRSA: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old boy allegedly jumped into the funeral pyre of his girlfriend who had committed suicide after her parents refused to accept their relationship. The incident took place in the Rori village of Sirsa district on Monday. While the girl, Veer Pal Kaur, was a student of Class IX, her boyfriend, Bittu Singh, a native of Malsinghwala village of Punjab, studied in Class XI. The two had been studying in the same school and had been going around for the past couple of years.

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Obituary: Risha Rebello (Aged 18 months) D/o. Fanny & Violet Rebello of Chantar, Brahamavar. Passed away on 30 November 2010

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Chandrika, wife of City Armed Reserve (CAR) Police Force head constable Puttaswamachar, and Kumari, wife of Karnataka State Reserve Police Force (KSRP) constable Narayan Rao residing at Jockey Quarters, are those women in question.

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A section of the Bharatiya Janata Party MPs from Karnataka is likely to boycott a hurriedly convened meeting by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa at Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday morning. Yeddyurappa arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday evening to meet the MPs apparently to discuss party affairs and other issues. However, Bijapur Lok Sabha Member Ramesh Jigajinagi told Deccan Herald: “I have received the invitation. However, I will not attend it.

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The Lank village council feared young men and women were secretly calling one another to arrange elopements. Last month, 34 couples eloped in Muzaffarnagar district, where Lank is located in the state of Uttar Pradesh, police said. The elopements resulted in eight honour killings, police said. "Three girls were beheaded by the male members of their family after they eloped" with boys from the same clan, said a police officer

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Federal investigators started giving details of charges against eight financial executives at a special court hearing yesterday as part of a probe into bribes and improper loan disbursements at the nation’s largest insurance company and some state-owned banks. The Central Bureau of Investigation’s lawyer Ejaz Khan brought charges against LIC Housing Finance Ltd Chief Executive Officer Ramachandran R Nair and seven other bank and brokerage officials in the court in Mumbai yesterday.

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CHANDIGARH: A division bench of the Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday dismissed an appeal to seek information under Right to Information Act on the religion practised by Sonia Gandhi. The bench comprising Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice Ranjan Gogoi dismissed the appeal on whether the registrar general, Census Operations, is bound to provide details of the religion practised by the UPA chairperson and her children under the RTI Act.

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The occasion of concluding ceremony of CHATURMAS VRATA 2010 OF KAVALE MATHADHEESH SHREEMAT SHIVANAND SARASWATI SWAMIJI was held at Gaudapadacharya Kavale Math, Walkeshwar, Mumbai. The CHATURMAS SAMAROPA SAMARAMBHA took place with gaiety and galore on the 21st, Nov, 2010 in the holy presence of Swamiji. Several dignitaries and Committee Members were felicitated on this auspicious occasion.

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Christians in Mangalore have honored members of three Hindu families who had protected their church from Muslim invaders more than two centuries ago. Father Paul Pinto, parish priest of Our Lady of Remedies Church, honored the three with areca nut, beetle leaves and a bunch of plantains on Nov. 24 as part of an age-old tradition.

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Koota Maha Jagattu Organised Satyanarayana Maha Pooja at Gokula-Sion, Mumbai

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A spate of attacks, tough visa norms and denial of permanent residency have caused around 30,000 Indian students, mostly based in Melbourne, to leave Australia in the past year, claims the Federation of Indian Students in Australia (FISA). The figure is quoted in the latest issue of Indian Student, published from Melbourne. The magazine in its editorial says Australia is no more a favourite destination for Indian students with this huge exodus in a year’s time.

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Iran’s president said on Monday that leaked American diplomatic memos recounting Arab calls for the U.S. to launch a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities were intended to stir “mischief.” According to the memos released on Sunday by online whistle-blower Wikileaks, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear programme to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon.

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NAVIPET (NIZAMABAD): Poverty has forced a 24-year-old youth to turn himself into a woman in the district. The youth, a native of Vaddera Colony in the mandal, underwent a sex change operation in Mumbai and returned home recently. "My family members were shocked and cried for two days when I informed them about the sex change operation," Kondapalli Shankar aka Ankita told TOI. Shankar went under the scalpel six months ago in a Mumbai hospital.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described India as a “self-appointed front-runner” for a permanent UNSC seat and directed U.S. envoys to seek minute details about Indian diplomats stationed at the United Nations headquarters, according to classified documents released by WikiLeaks on Monday. In a potentially damaging disclosure, the whistle-blower Website released a cable labelled “secret” issued by Ms. Clinton on July 31, 2009, as part of its massive leak of a quarter million classified documents of the American government.

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