National News: General

?I?ve been with the Taj through its most difficult phase. I want to be with it even after it has passed.?

?It was incredibly quiet. All of Mumbai was held hostage. Otherwise, it?s a very noisy city,? said Alex Chamberlen (39) as he recalled the evening of November 26, 2008, when he was dining at the Oberoi?s famed Kandhahar restaurant.

Mumbai, Nov. 24 -- "The DGP [director general of police] is not above the law." It is with these words that the Supreme Court (SC) of India directed the Vakola police to register a first information report (FIR) against DGP (acting) A.N. Roy on November 16. But the police are yet to act on it.

Mumbai, Nov. 24 -- Closed circuit television cameras guarded him against the police. Key Chhota Shakeel aide, Imran Jhingada, who was gunned down in a police encounter last week along with an accomplice, had installed at least 12 closed-circuit television cameras around his Jogeshwari home to stay a step ahead of the police.

Former Mumbai police chief Hasan Gafoor is in big trouble for alleging that some of his senior colleagues did not respond to the situation during the 26/11 terror attacks.

The Liberhan Commission report is likely to be finally tabled on Tuesday, along with the mandatory Action Taken Report.

If some are good in sports, the others stole the show in academic rigour. Jaya shroff Bhalla and Pranav dixit profile schools ranked 4 to 10 in the HT-C fore West zone schools survey.

There are hands in Tihar that have stolen, burgled and, in many cases, even murdered. On Monday, all these hands and more found themselves lost in the grip of a man who is seven feet and three inches tall and weighs 190 kg.

India must show responsible leadership and go out of its way to act as a pioneer in the fight against climate change since it has begun to affect our lives directly.

New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- Pragati Maidan is bursting at the seams as the 26th India International Trade Fair unwinds. Quite evidently, the 150 acre campus is turning out to be too cramped, especially for hundreds of small vendors. It's a fair outside a fair in many ways.

New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- How far will the city's caretakers go to clean it up for next year's Games? Very far, it seems. This time, their solution for Delhi's garbage problem comes from the land of Nokia - Finland. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to import 67 'underground' dustbins at a cost of Rs 2.18 crore. Each dustbin, therefore, is worth more than Rs 3.

For the first time, two Delhi Police officers will serve on the National Investigation Agency (NIA) ? a federal agency to combat terror in the country.

New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- If carefully looked into, almost half of the mental disorders can be detected during childhood. Experts at the 10th Biennial conference of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (IACAMH) emphasised upon the need of screening children and adolescents to avoid developing problems during adulthood.

Dengue cases crossed the 1,000-mark in Delhi with 10 fresh cases of the vector-borne disease reported on Monday. Even as the authorities said they expected a downward trend over the next few days, the numbers seem to be slowly growing.

Lucknow, Nov 24 (IANS) A teacher in an Uttar Pradesh school beat a Class 10 girl student with a duster on her knuckles for forgetting to bring her English notebook, fracturing her fingers, police said Tuesday.

The Bombay Stock Exchange is preparing for a listing and hopes to cut over-reliance on revenues from cash equity trading in two years, Madhu Kannan, the chief executive of Asia's oldest bourse, said on Tuesday.

The Bombay Stock Exchange, whose data pipelines are burdened by the need to carry pricing of more stocks than any other bourse, will next week launch a feed that is several times faster than its existing offering, a top official said.

Even as international attention on Kashmir has invariably been focused on the tensions and conflict between Islamabad and New Delhi, people living in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir are more worried about the military occupation of the region in the virtual absence of the civil administration in these areas.

Subir Gokarn on Tuesday took over as the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, the RBI said in a statement.

Agartala, Nov 24 (IANS) The Border Security Force (BSF) is ready for joint operations with state security forces to battle terrorists in the northeast, BSF Director General Raman Srivastava said Tuesday.