Pharrell Williams wants to bail out Lindsay Lohan

LONDON - Rapper-producer Pharrell Williams is offering help to Lindsay Lohan by producing her next album and the singer-actress says she is touched by his endeavour.

Cash is king,’ Ernst & Young tells businesses

TORONTO - `Cash is king’ in the current global turmoil and needs to be managed well, says Ernst & Young in its 10 commandments for businesses to ease pain in the New Year.

Pakistan should book Mumbai terror masterminds: Antony

NEW DELHI - Defence Minister A.K. Antony Wednesday called on Pakistan to book those who gave ‘inspiration, direction and support’ to the terrorists who staged the Mumbai mayhem and to ‘dismantle’ the terror outfits functioning on its soil.

Man who initiated India’s new navy school forgotten now

EZHIMALA - The former navy chief who initiated India’s new marine academy in this imposing mountainous region on a seashore in Kerala says he was not informed about the school being inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday.

Russian gas deliveries to Turkey, Balkan states halted

MOSCOW - Russian gas supplies through Ukraine to Turkey have stopped, the Turkish minister of energy and natural resources said Tuesday.

Assam rebel groups slam PM’s precondition for talks

GUWAHATI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that peace talks could be held with rebel groups only if they laid down arms first has evoked angry reactions, with pro-talk militant factions in Assam terming the precondition as unacceptable.

Hand over perpetrators of Mumbai terror attack: PM tells Pakistan

SHILLONG - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday asked Pakistan to hand over the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks so that they can be tried in India, even as he stressed that war cannot be a solution.

There is no time limit but Pakistan must act: Antony

NEW DELHI - More than 30 terror outfits are still active in Pakistan, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Friday while stressing that there was no change in Islamabad’s attitude after the Mumbai terror attack.

Farooq Abdullah ready to become Jammu and Kashmir chief minister

SRINAGAR - As the National Conference (NC) prepares to work out an alliance with the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir after emerging as the single largest party in the assembly polls, party patron Farooq Abdullah reiterated Monday that he will become the next chief minister, though the Congress has not yet said who it will support for the post.

Pakistan could ask for consular access to Kasab

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan may ask for consular access to Ajmal Amir Kasab - the lone terrorist caught alive in the Mumbai terror attack - to determine if he is a Pakistani and provide him legal aid if he is found to be one, a senior official here said Sunday.

Hand over Mumbai attack suspects, India again asks Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - India Friday reiterated its demand for the extradition of three people allegedly involved in the Mumbai attacks and other terrorist activities in the country while Pakistan’s prime minister said this country would not provoke an aggression but will defend itself if attacked.

Punjab chief minister has not kept promises to NRIs: legislator

CHANDIGARH - Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ‘betrayed’ NRIs by not keeping the promises he had made to them this January, an opposition legislator from the state has alleged.

Mediapersons hold candlelight peace march

NEW DELHI - Holding candles in their hands, more than 500 people, primarily mediapersons and Muslim intellectuals gathered in the capital Friday evening to voice their anguish over the Nov 26 terror attacks in Mumbai and to express solidarity with the victims on the one-month anniversary.

India would have attacked but for Pakistani nukes: Shahbaz Sharif

ISLAMABAD - India would have launched a war in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks but for the fact that Pakistan is a nuclear power, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif asserted Thursday.