Islamabad (Pakistan): In summer of 1996 when Imran Khan slipped into a politician's attire, he was hailed as the agent of change. A decade later when he is on the verge of adulthood in his political innings, he is revered and reviled alike for being one of few honest political animals in his battered homeland as he is ridiculed for his off-and-on tryst with night-out in some of world's glitzy hotspots.

Agra (India): A 24-year old youth detained in Mainpuri jail, assaulted and dismembered by two alleged co-prisoners, has Thursday morning been shifted to the general ward after surgery at the SN Medical College.

Agra (India): The Taj city could finally be on its way to becoming pollution-free.

Aligarh (India): AMU Vice Chancellor, Prof. PK Abdul Azis said that the University will soon emerge as a modern educational technology hub contributing significantly to both knowledge acquisition and knowledge creation. The Bluetooth enabled Wi-Max system will bound to change the educational scape in AMU, he observed.

Agra (India): Agra mayor Anjula Singh Mahaur has flatly refused to part with a MF Hussian painting gifted to her by a Mumbai businessman Guru Swaroop Srivastav.

Kiev (Ukraine): Generally the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) is running the Indian cultural centers abroad to promote art, culture and literature, but here a privately sponsored culture centre, Sanskriti was inaugurated.