Died
Eric Newby, 86, WW-II veteran and inveterate travel writer whose A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958) ‘put Afghanistan on the hippy trail’, dies.
Convicted
Jeffrey Skilling, 52, disgraced Enron CEO, gets 24 years in jail. The energy major went bankrupt in ’01 wiping out $68 bn in market cap, and $1.5 bn in pension funds.
Accused
PCB chief Nasim Ashraf asks Pak’s red-carded captain Inzamam-ul-Haq to balance religion and cricket, "tone down the Maulvism". The furore has started.
Planned
China’s plan to dam the Brahmaputra, divert water to its parched northeast has sent out panic waves in countries downstream like India, Bangladesh.
Blabbered
Russian president Vladimir Putin is in a spot over an off mike ‘rape joke’. He said accused Israeli prez M. Katsav was "a mighty man" and "we all envy him".
