Indian student stabbed, critical

A 23-year-old Indian student, working as a taxi driver, was brutally stabbed and left bleeding on the roadside here on Tuesday, reports PTI from Melbourne.

The Indian, who was lying injured for over two hours, was found at 6 am local time disoriented and with hypothermia near a hotel in Clifton Hill, several hundred metres from his smashed car and was taken to hospital in a critical condition.

Thatcher wanted to join IAS

Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher wanted to join the erstwhile Indian Civil Service and serve the country, reports PTI from London.

Thatcher, also known as the "Iron Lady", told an interviewer on Yorkshire Television in 1985: "I had an ambition as a child. I told you all the missionaries used to come and people used to come from India. I had an ambition."

Marriage through correspondence

A Hizbullah operative, serving a term of 147 years in an Israeli prison, is set to marry a former prisoner by exchanging correspondence with her, a media report here said, reports PTI from Jerusalem.

Samir Kuntar, serving four consecutive life terms and an additional 47 years in jail, will tie the knot with Fadah Said Abdullah of Kfar Akeb village near Jerusalem within a few weeks, in a process to be officiated by their attorneys.