National News: General

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

New Delhi, Nov. 24 -- It was a big day for the 600,000-odd population of Dwarka. With Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit flagging off six swanky new air-conditioned buses on 'Dwarka Circular Sewa' route on Tuesday, the residents of Dwarka finally got what they had been fighting for many years - a local transport facility for the sub-city.

Pakistan has begun to recognise extremism can do no good and ?there is some progress? in taking action against terrorists located on its soil, said US President Barack Obama.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Ansal brothers, owners of Uphaar cinema hall, to release an interim compensation of Rs 3.4 crore to the families and surviving victims of the fire tragedy that killed 59 people on June 13, 1997.

The state government is planning to introduce a legislation that provides for stringent punishment for attacking journalists or media offices and makes the offence non-bailable.

Their familiarity with the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry or who killed Roger Ackroyd will soon help students gain credit points at school.

Pratibha Devisinh Patil (74), India?s first woman President, will fly in a Sukhoi 30 MKI ? India?s best fighter plane on Wednesday at Lohegaon air base.

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.

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.

A Gurgaon fast track court on Tuesday awarded the fourth life sentence to members of the notorious Maxi Cab serial killer gang for yet another murder.