A message in a bottle that a retired post office worker found while on holiday on the German island of Amrum has turned out to be the oldest of its kind, media reports said....

The Maharashtra government on Friday further strengthened the security of social crusader Anna Hazare following a new death threat, officials said....
The NSA talks between India and Pakistan appeared to be in jeopardy on Friday after India objected to Pakistani NSA Sartaj Aziz's proposed meeting with Kashmiri separatists ahead of his meeting with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval. ...
Protesters blocked the Pathankote-Jammu highway in Jammu and Kashmir and clashed with the police on Friday following overnight communal violence, authorities said. ...
The Indian economy can double in three years and has the potential of becoming a $20-trillion economy, Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Friday. ...
UNF leader Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday took oath as Sri Lanka's prime minister at a ceremony at the presidential secretariat here. ...
Highlighting his government's efforts to improve business environment, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has invited US investors to Haryana in sectors such as IT, renewable energy, transportation, defence and food processing....
Pakistan said on Friday that it will make no compromise over its planned meeting with Kashmiri Hurriyat leaders ahead of talks between the two countries' national security advisers....
The death toll in the deadly blasts in a warehouse in China rose to 116 on Friday while 60 people are still missing, rescue headquarters said. ...

Fans of megastar Amitabh Bachchan have urged him not to promote the upcoming biopic of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav because of the latter's remarks on rape survivors....