Sonia Gandhi, L.K. Advani and Arun Jaitley and others during the Republic Day parade at Rajpath in New Delhi on Thursday. — PTI

Youth perform the gidda dance during Republic Day celebrations at Guru Nanak Stadium in Amritsar on Thursday. — AFP

Thailand PM Yingluck Shinawatra inspects a guard of honour during a ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhavan—PRITAM BANDYOPADH

Congress leader Sukhpal Bhullar (left) helps Rahul Gandhi tie a turban during an election rally at Chabal on Wednesday —AP

Sonia Gandhi is presented a sword by Punjab PCC chief Amarinder Singh during a rally in Gurdaspur on Tuesday. — PTI

The Election Commission of India’s tableau during a full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi — PTI

SSB jawans march during the full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on Rajpath in New Delhi on Monday. — G.N. JHA

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International

Pak wants to work with India: Gilani

Pointing out that Pakistan has “excellent” relationship with India, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani today said cooperation between the two to tackle climate change was “doable”.

Business

Samsung Electronics posts record operating profit in Q4

Samsung Electronics on Friday posted a record operating profit of 5.3 trillion won ($4.72 billion) in the fourth quarter and a net profit of four trillion, thanks largely to booming smartphone sales.

India

Jaya sues Stalin for defamation

Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Friday filed a defamation complaint against DMK treasurer M.K. Stalin accusing him of making “false and malicious” statements that defamed her in the discharge of her public duties.

Metros

AIIMS docs struggle to save 2-yr-old

A two-year-old baby girl admitted to the AIIMS hospital with suspected human bites, fractured limbs, severe head injuries and cardiac arrest is undergoing treatment and doctors say her chances of surv

Newsmakers

Dahl, Hitchcock refused honours

Writers Roald Dahl, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene and C.S. Lewis were in the till-now secret list of Britons who had refused to accept honours from the reigning monarch, between 1951 and 1999.

Sports

Another defeat looms large on Team India

India were lurching towards defeat and a 4-0 series humiliation against Australia after another batting collapse in the fourth Test in Adelaide on Friday.

Editorial

Internet privacy is facing new threats

It’s World Data Privacy Day today, an annual international event designed to promote awareness about privacy. Though it may chiefly interest government officials, corporations and technology experts and mavens, never was an occasion more needed than now. For privacy is becoming a hot button issue worldwide as both the state and the public sector begin prying into people’s lives and even innermost thoughts and what’s more, make them available for use and possible abuse.

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As an annual trip to Ladakh in the Himalayas, my biking club and I did 3,000 km from New Delhi to Leh via Manali and back.

“Bad verses The readers’ curses, Aphorisms The soul’s prisms…” From Curry Boli by Bachchoo O tempora, O mores! All I ever got from defending Salman Rushdie’s right to write was a few seconds’ eternal notoriety on something called e-bay — or is it U-tube or Facelift — believe me I am bewildered when my children tell me that I am somewhere there.

I’m writing this the morning after the night before India’s 63rd Republic Day went off without an “incident”, and we should be so relieved. Imagine! It has come to that. For nearly a fortnight before January 26, there is an extra high alert all over the country, which means it is not the best time to be travelling, especially if Delhi is your destination. First, you deal with the notorious fog (surely, there’s a foreign hand somewhere?) that delays flights for hours on end. Then there’s the deadly red alert, which means further delays and mysterious procedures.