New Delhi, Jan 23 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh would be undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS) tomorrow.

The surgery would be performed by a team of doctors drawn from AIIMS and the Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai.

They would be supported by a team of doctors and technical staff drawn from other departments of AIIMS.

Earlier this week, Dr. Singh underwent extensive medical tests at AIIMS.

New Delhi, Jan 23 : An appeal filed by the Maharashtara Government on Thursday seeking a stay on the film `Deshdrohi' will be heard by the Supreme Court today.

The appeal was filed in the wake of escalating tensions in Mumbai following the violent anti-north Indian campaign fanned by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.

Considering the urgency of the matter, a bench headed by Justice BN Aggarwal will look into the appeal on the ban of the movie scheduled for release on Friday.

New Delhi, Jan. 22 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday demanded a comprehensive independent probe into the Satyam scam, stating that inquiry by Andhra Pradesh CB-CID could not generate any confidence among stake holders.

"Unfortunately, the inquiry of CB-CID has not generated any confidence among any of the stake holders. BJP demands a comprehensive independent probe or joint parliamentary committee probe of this scandal," said BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar.

New Delhi, Jan.

New Delhi, Jan. 22 : The Centre has approved three port projects on public private partnership (PPP) basis for the construction of container terminal at two ports in coastal Tamil Nadu and a coal terminal in Goa.

The Public Private Partnership Approval Committee (PPPAC) under the Finance Ministry had approved these three projects of Department of Shipping at its 22nd meeting on January 13.

New
Delhi - The founder of fraud-hit Indian information technology firm
Satyam had diverted billions of rupees from the company and inflated
the number of employees to withdraw cash, a public prosecutor said
Thursday according to news reports.

The prosecutor made the comments during a hearing of the police's
request for extension of custody of Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju and
the company's former chief financial officer Vadlamani Srinivas in a
court in the southern city of Hyderabad, PTI news agency reported.