Terror clouds Indo-Pak talks
New Delhi, February 14
Last night’s deadly blast in Pune not only threatens to jeopardise the foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan on February 25 but has also made New Delhi reflect once again on how thorny is the path to peace with Islamabad.

PM wants speedy probe into blast

Relatives of a blast victim mourn at a hospital in Pune on Sunday. — AFP

Day after, Pune moves on
The Saturday night’s blast at German Bakery in the Koregaon park area has done little to curb the famed nightlife of this vibrant city. Hotels and restaurants in the posh Deccan neighborhood were brimming over with young crowds out to celebrate the Valentine’s Day.

Editorial: Now it’s Pune
Pune terror trail
Whodunit? Cops clueless
Nation page: Is IM behind Pune attack?

Zardari, SC standoff deepens
Apex court suspends Prez appointments of two judges
The standoff between President Asif Ali Zardari and the top judicial authority deepened when a division bench of the Supreme Court restrained his orders on appointment of two senior judges.

6 buried alive under boulders in Kinnaur
Shimla, February 14
Six labourers were buried alive, 15 injured and at least two reported missing as a huge rolling mass of boulders hit Kaksthal village on the right bank of the Sutlej in Kinnaur tribal district, around 180 km from here, today.

14 Telangana MLAs resign
Hyderabad, February 14
The political turmoil over Telangana deepened today with 14 legislators from the region submitting their resignations in protest against the “unfavourable” terms of reference (ToR) of the Justice Srikrishna Committee set up by the Centre to decide on the statehood demand.

Indian owns company that once owned India Mumbai-born Sanjiv Mehta buys world’s first MNC, The East India Company London, February 14 With just around a month to go for the re-launch of the East India Company, the world’s first multinational whose forces once ruled much of the globe, its new Indian owner says “a huge feeling of redemption” overwhelms him. It’s been a long, emotional and personal journey for Sanjiv Mehta, a Mumbai-born entrepreneur who completed the process of buying the East India Company (EIC) in 2005 from the “30 or 40” persons who owned it.