National News: General

Harrowed by a series of chaotic Tuesdays in the past weeks, hundreds of fliers avoided travel during the six-hour partial runway shutdown at the Mumbai airport on Tuesday.

A year after Rita Kumari (name changed) was hit by a bullet at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) on 26/11, she is still visiting KEM Hospital?s psychiatry department for counselling.

For the Central Railway, November 26 ? the first anniversary of last year?s terror attacks ? will be a low-profile affair.

Murlidhar Choudheri, the RPF constable, who lost his life in the terror attack, had planned a pilgrimage after his retirement.

This is the story of a 26/11 hero, who single-handedly shouldered Ram on one side and Rahim on the other.

Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told Parliament on Tuesday that he was not deviating from India?s stated position on climate change.

The Khajuri Khas school stampede in September, which left five girl students dead, resulted from the principal?s negligence.

The raising of Jai Sri Ram slogans by some BJP members in the Rajya Sabha, after the tabling of the Liberhan Commission report on Tuesday, sparked a scuffle between Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary Amar Singh and BJP?s S.S. Ahluwalia.

It has been a year since the bodies of the nine terrorists, who were gunned down during the 26/11 attacks, were put into JJ Hospital?s mortuary. With no decision on their disposal, they are still lying there at four degrees centigrade temperature.

India, Nov. 25 -- On Vajpayee and other BJP leaders * LK Advani, M.M. Joshi and A.B. Vajpayee were icons of the movement.

New Delhi, Nov. 24 -- What happened to Rana Shaukat Ali is anyway a parent's worse nightmare. In February 2007, a bomb blast ripped through the Samjhauta Express and snuffed in one go the lives of five of his six children.

The millennium?s first recession is just ending, and Millennium City already has a spending boom planned out.

Maharashtra?s elite commando force, Force One, began its first day at work on Tuesday with mock drills, an induction ceremony, a parade, and a few fainting spells.

New Delhi, Nov. 25 -- A new study based on the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) data says smaller glaciers are retreating at a faster rate than bigger ones, contrary to an environment and forest ministry report.

The Parliament on Tuesday witnessed uproar over the multi-crore scam involving former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, after an angry BJP raised the issue, saying the Congress was hand-in-glove with the former CM and was trying to protect him.

Many Indian Institute of Management (IIM) aspirants taking the first online Common Admission Test (CAT) starting this Saturday have got e-mails in the last few days stating that their forms are incomplete.

Clubs located on the city?s public spaces are holding the civic body responsible for not framing guidelines ? despite violating the terms on which they were allowed to build these clubs in the first place.

State Tribal Development Minister Babanrao Pachpute has backed out of his plans to make tribals ?self reliant? by encouraging them to manufacture liquor from the Moha or mahua flower.

Maqsood Rawal (32) mortgaged all of his wife?s jewellery for Rs two lakh, and borrowed Rs 1 lakh from a friend ? to get into business with Ejaz Khan (30), who claimed to have been a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi.

More than 6.5 million voters in Jharkhand, one of the India?s poorest states, will on Wednesday exercise their franchise to elect 26 MLAs in the first phase of a five-phase election. About 470 candidates are in the fray.