Book on Nehru would have gone ‘unnoticed’ in Pak: PML-N

October 5th, 2009 LONDON - British intelligence agencies were so suspicious of India's first High Commissioner to Britain - a man with strong leftist sympathies - that they tried to get rid of him, says an authoritative book. The attempt to oust High Commissioner V.K.

October 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin's soon-to-be-released book has topped the charts at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com, only two days after its release date was announced. Palin's publisher, Harper, announced on Monday that the memoir tilted "Going Rogue: An American Life", which was scheduled to hit the markets in spring next year, would now be available from November 17 following its completion.

September 18th, 2009 LAHORE - Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah has sent the Pakistani book piracy nexus working overtime, but it has also landed people in police custody. Pakistani security agencies have arrested three people for selling pirated editions of the book 'Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence,' following a countrywide crackdown on publishers and sellers of counterfeit editions of the controversial yet popular book.

September 18th, 2009 LAHORE - Three people have been arrested for selling pirated editions of former Indian minister Jaswant Singh's book "Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence" in this Pakistani city, authorities said. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) raided two shops in Defence Housing Authority and arrested three people for selling the pirated editions of Jaswant Singh's book, Daily Times reported Friday.

September 13th, 2009 ABU DHABI - The Indian community in United Arab Emirates has paid a tribute to the founder of the nation, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, by publishing a book on him in the Malayalam language. The book was officially released at a special ceremony at the Indian Social and Cultural Centre here during a mass Iftar banquet Saturday, WAM news agency reported Sunday.

August 29th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Punjab province's Crime Investigation Department (CID) has released its 12th 'Red Book' containing names of most wanted high profile terrorists. The book, which also includes the names of those involved in sectarian violence, mentions a combined head money of 54 million rupees announced by the Punjab government for the militants.

August 28th, 2009 LAHORE - Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book, Jinnah: India, Partition-Independence, which has created a furor in India, has received an overwhelming response in Pakistan. A famous book store in Lahore sold 100 copies of the book in a single day (last Wednesday) which indicates how eager the Pakistanis are to know the reason what prompted the BJP to expel the former Foreign Minister and end his 30 year long association with the party.

July 23rd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian man was taken into custody for trying to smuggle heroin into Australia by hiding it in a kid's story book. The 56-year-old man had carved a little compartment inside the book and filled it with the drug.

July 14th, 2009 LONDON - A series of letters written by Gandhi and Nehru and a piece of signed khadi cloth were sold by Sotheby's Tuesday for a total of 17,500 pounds, the London auction house said. The Gandhi items were bought jointly by two prominent Indian-origin industrialists - Ghulam Noon, founder of Noon Products and popularly known as Britain's Curry King, and Nat Puri, founder of Purico Group.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit, has been turned into a book 5000 pages long and 1ft 7ins thick. Rob Matthews turned the encyclopaedia, written by volunteers, into a book containing 437-featured articles from the popular Internet resource, and it comes up to his knee when it is made to stand on the floor.

May 29th, 2009 NEW YORK - The man, who created the beloved Cirque du Soleil, is now being called a cheater by his ex-girlfriend in a new book. In 'Guy Laliberte: The Fabulous Story of the Creator of the Cirque du Soleil', author Ian Halperin has revealed that Rizia Moreira, who gave birth to three of Laliberte's five children, thinks he is a scoundrel.

May 19th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Austrian dungeon victim Elisabeth Fritzl's cries for help during her 24-year ordeal could be "very audible" to those living above, reveals a new book. Elisabeth, now 42, was held captive and sexually abused by her father, Josef, for 24 years in a rat-infested dungeon.

May 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan has been registered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest militarized territorial dispute in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records used the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) world fact book to name the Kashmir issue, the longest dispute between two countries, The Daily Times reports.

May 4th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A book aimed at educating kids as young as two about how gay parents have children is being advertised in the bookstores Down Under. It also teaches children about lesbian mums getting pregnant using sperm donors.

April 28th, 2009 LONDON - It may take several months for an average reader to complete 'Crime and Punishment', but a copy of the book can be printed in just nine minutes, thanks to Britain's first 'book vending machine'. The Daily Telegraph ordered a freshly bound edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic, which was one of the first tomes to drop out of the Espresso Book Machine when it opened for business for the first time yesterday.