While Daniel Vettori’s men will try hard to add to their hat-trick of wins, expect the yellow shirts to spring a few surprises.

The ESO will support Bombardier’s in production and in development aircraft programmes by providing assistance to the company and more than 400 engineers at its partners’ offices in the areas of complex engineering structure design, advanced stress analysis and project management services.

Mr. Sibal said this while launching the country’s first 4G services here. He said that the government wished to auction the 4G spectrum by this fiscal. “The real 4G will come when spectrum of 700 MHZ is put for auction,” he said.

Both appointments were made by Gowda, and the jolt comes immediately after the BJP lost the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha seat in the bypoll in March. The hurried decision to appoint Justice Chandrashekaraiah ran into controversy after Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen took exception to the fact that he was not consulted, and expressed his displeasure in writing.

The institution of Lokayukta in Karnataka has virtually collapsed after the exit of Justice N Santosh Hegde. In September 2011, Justice Shivaraj V Patil quit over reports that he allegedly owned multiple residential plots in Bangalore. Soon after, governor H R Bhardwaj and the government were engaged in a public spat over Justice S R Bannurmath’s candidature, and he withdrew from the race.

Police were probing whether the first year aeronautical engineering student, Ajmal, tried to commit suicide or was he doused with kerosene by someone else. He has been battling for life in the hospital.

As per reports, Yeddyurappa has refused to leave Bangalore till his demands are met. His reluctance to head to Delhi is understandable as he had, over the weekend, whisked away almost 50 MLAs to a resort outside Bangalore and would not want any breaking away from his ranks while he is away.

Gounder had gone missing since February 11 after he left his hometown for Mandya. Brother of former MP E Chinnasamy, Gounder was known to be a leading criminal lawyer of the region, handling high-profile cases.

He was a genius. That’s what most people had to say about Vishnu. He was a topper at St Joseph’s College Boys’ High School; scored 97% in the 2010 ICSE exams and went on to study Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Computer Science. He scored 100% in a recent Mathematics class exam.

Bangalore police officials claimed that Sabrina might have lost grip of the safety rope while moving from the shallow end to the deep end. The force of teh wave could have carried her to the six-feet-deep side of the pool where she was found unconscious state.

“It was a sea of humanity at the centre where about 100,000 people from 60 countries participated in the Maha Shivratri celebrations that began with our founder Ravi Shankar performing rituals like ‘Rudra puja’ earlier in the day,” Art of Living said in a statement here.

Explaining the significance of the festival, the AoL founder said Shivratri meant taking deep rest when the mind is in the lap of the divine.

“Meditation on this day has a manifold effect as the spirit touches the earth. If you meditate on Shivaratri, the power of meditation is 100 times more,” Ravi Shankar told the gathering on the occasion.

Seekers from across the country and overseas, including Argentina, China, Brazil, Oman, Kuwait, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Russia and Taiwan converged in the sprawling AoL campus to celebrate the fest with hymns dedicated to the deity.

“It is a wonderful experience to have people from diverse cultures come together in a spirit of celebration. Meditating at such a vast gathering is rewarding and blissful,” Andreas Birkeland from Norway said.

Even as the atmosphere was charged with sacred chants, the diverse gathering meditated for the well-being of humanity.

The festival was also celebrated in hundreds of Shiva temples across the city and the state with religious fervour and devotion.

As devotees will be awake throughout the night after breaking their day-long fast with fruits and light refreshments,

Several organisations have set up make-shift dais near Shiva temples in the city and elsewhere to enable hundreds of devotees keep awake throughout the night after breaking their day-long fast with fruits and refreshments.

Held every year on the 13th night of Maagha or Phalguna month of the Hindu calendar, the festival is also celebrated by Hindu women for the well-being of their husbands and sons in the spirit Shiva’s consort Parvathi used to worship aeons ago.