Happy new year to every one.Have a great and prosperous year ahead.

 Thackeray, a newspaper cartoonist who became a powerful influence in this city by championing and stoking the grievances of the native population and Hindus against outsiders and Muslims, died Saturday at his home in Mumbai. He was 86.

• As the candlelight flame,
  
  Ur life may always be happiness' claim;
  
  As the mountain high,
  
  U move without sigh;
  
  like the white linen flair,
  
  Purity is always an affair;
  
  As sunshine creates morning glory,
  
  fragrance fills years as flory;
  
  with the immaculate eternal smile,
  
  attached to u mile after mile;
  
  All darkness is far away,
  
  As light is on its way;
  
  Wish all of u a very Happy…

The national tricolour and a stick proudly holding it up in the hands of a former Bihar minister leading an anti-liquor procession could not protect him from the liquor mafia’s alleged henchmen who badly beat him up on Saturday.

Policemen stood still and watched as Hind Keshri Yadav, 70, was beaten up on the district magistrate’s office premises in Muzaffarpur by about 20 men. Mr Yadav, a former minister in Bihar’s erstwhile RJD government, was leading a padyatra with about 100 men…