Real Time India.....

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India is a country on the go; at any given moment in time, there is much happening in the fields of politics and governance, of finance, of development; there is constant churning in society, considerable activity in sports and in the arts... It's almost too much to keep track of. And hence, this effort: a real-time, constantly updated look at the events that matter.


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3: 54 pm: Rural households in the country could have paid a whopping Rs 471.8 crore last year as bribe to avail basic facilities. More

3:51 pm: BJP leader L K Advani is in Karnataka, and is advising members of his party not to be corrupt. The state is described by many as India's most corrupt, with neighbouring Tamil Nadu being a strong contender for the dubious distinction. Karnataka's chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and his cabinet colleagues, many of whom face corruption charges, listened quietly as Advani told cadres that the BJP was an "extraordinary party" with no room for the tainted. Deccan Herald reports that Advani advised party leaders not to let the opposition point fingers at them.

3: 23 pm: Kate and her father are making their to the Abbey. Bridesmaid and Kate's sister Pippa has arrived just ahead of them.

3: 20 pm: An alert has been sounded across airports for a Canadian Chinese man who escaped police custody from Vadodara. He's wanted in connection with an international drug trafficking racket.

2: 49 pm: Prince William, accompanied by brother and best man Harry, arrives at the Westminster Abbey.

2:40 pm: SC denies bail to Vikas Yadav to attend his brother's wedding. Justices V S Sirpurkar and T S Thakur dismissed the plea saying "It is your brother's marriage, not your marriage." Son of former MP DP Yadav, Vikas is serving a life sentence for killing his sister's friend Nitish Katara in 2002.

2: 19 pm: If you haven't had enough already of the royal wedding, here are some more:
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Facts about Prince William
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2:09 pm: Y! India columnist Sanjay Sipahimalani rues the lack of mythology in contemporary novels and looks back fondly at certain epics. Read the full column here

1: 57 pm: A journalist covering Sathya Sai Baba over the years reports what devotees did to ensure a good press, and how some tried to browbeat him when it looked like he might write a 'negative' story.

1: 51 pm: Life has come to a standstill in Kerala today. The ruling Left Front government has called a bandh demanding a ban on endosulfan, a pesticide that has reportedly left 500 people dead. The central government, led by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, has refused to ban endosulfan. Maximum damage from the pesticide is in evidence in Kasargod area, bordering Karnataka.

1: 48 pm: Shaikh Yasmeen Bano, a key prosecution witness in the 2002 Best Bakery case, has alleges that she was "lured and misguided" by social activist Teesta Setalvad into giving false testimony against 17 accused persons. Her testimony led to nine accused receiving life imprisonment.

1: 34 pm: Pakistan has successfully test fired the Hatf-VIII Cruise Missile, which is capable of carrying both nuclear and conventional warheads-ANI.

12: 43 pm: The Supreme Court stayed the pre-impeachment probe into allegations of judicial misconduct by Justice PD Dinakaran. The judgement was passed upon a plea by Justice Dinakaran, expressing apprehension of biased probe against him.

12: 34 pm: Former British PM Tony Blair said he's not disappointed over not receiving an invite to the royal wedding which takes place later today. More

12: 30 pm: The SC rejects a petition filed by advocate Sirajin Basha challenging the Karnataka HC's ordering staying criminal proceedings against CM Yeddyurappa in the land grab controversy. However, the SC did ask the lower court to "decide the matter within six weeks".

11: 48 am: Match-fixing in Sri Lanka: Former Sri Lanka skipper Hashan Tillakaratne has claimed that match-fixing is common in his country since 1992. "I can tell this in agreement with my conscience. Match fixing is not something that started happening yesterday or today. According to my knowledge, it happened since 1992. I say this with great responsibility," Tillakaratne, who led Lanka between April 2003 and March 2004, said. "There were threats of this issue being exposed during various times. But it was pushed down by giving money to various people. If the people who were responsible for that are listening to this, I state this today with great responsibility, I will shortly reveal the names of those responsible."

11: 08 am: A total of 95 flights, including 33 flights, ten of them international, from Mumbai. Thus far today, AI has managed to operate four flights -- two of them to Delhi, and one each to Hyderabad and Nagpur.

11: 03 am: JKLF chairman Yasin Malik was detained with his three aides for demonstrating against the arrest of a youth in Srinagar.