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The CBI has informed the Speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly that neither Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah nor Union Minister Farooq Abdullah figured in the investigations into the 2006 sex scandal.

cricket's biggest icon, Sachin Tendulkar turned 36 today and said he still feels like a boy of 16. The right-hander, bracketed in the same league with the legendary Don Bradman, is currently leading the Mumbai Indians in the ongoing Indian Premier League in South Africa. "I feel like 16. I think it's the good wishes and blessings that count," he said.

A new national poll suggests that President Barack Obama is personally more popular than his policies. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, two days before Obama marks 100 days in the White House, indicates that three in four Americans feel Obama has the personal qualities a president should have. But when asked if Obama agrees with the respondent on the issues, that number drops to 57 percent. The survey also indicates that 63 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling his duties as president. One in three questioned in the poll disapprove.

Mumbai will house the 2011 World Cup secretariat and India will host 29 matches of the quadrennial extravaganza, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said here on Tuesday. The secretariat was earlier based in the Pakistani city of Lahore.

India Inc believes the move by the Barack Obama administration to reduce tax breaks for US firms that ship jobs overseas will hit American companies more than impact on the Indian outsourcing industry. "It's a more US-US issue rather than one aimed at stopping outsourcing, or off-shoring, or anything to do with India," said Som Mittal, president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), a representative boddy for the industry.