National News

The security head of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee has been made the new traffic chief of Delhi Police.

The then in-charge of Azad Maidan police station, Inspector Yashwant Thorawade, deposed in the Special 26/11 trial court on Monday.

Mumbai, Nov. 24 -- The city civil court has asked that two city clubs be handed over to the civic body. The court said that Matoshree Club on Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road and Kamala Vihar Sports Club in Poinsar be handed over to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

Praveen Belokar (28) was not the only one involved in the Rs 40 lakh heist at an Amboli ATM on Friday. Amboli police have arrested four others for allegedly plotting and executing it.

The state government will go all out on November 26 to assure people that it is prepared to tame any further terror attack.

In the inconclusive debate of live music versus studio sound, Swarathma, a six-member outfit from Bangalore, made a compelling case for the former.

In the last 13 years, only 1.2 lakh houses have been constructed to rehabilitate slumdwellers displaced by state government projects ? an average of 10,000 homes a year.

Students across schools and colleges in the city are finding their career paths at the Hindustan Times Career Quotient 2009 initiative that is being held on campuses.

Women without Borders, an international research and lobbying organisation, is holding an event in Mumbai on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of 26/11. Social scientist Dr Edit Schlaffer, who started the organisation in 2002, spoke to Hindustan Times about their plans to organise women, students and victims of attacks to combat terror.

Hotels in south Mumbai have threatened to hike bills by nearly 25 per cent, if power tariff is increased.

It was late in the night when Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani walked into the residence of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh on December 6, 1992.

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

For many years, I understood rape to be a kind of oilseed, like mustard, til or soya. I had of course heard of the Rape of Good Hope and was familiar with ?As you sow, so shall you rape.? Of late though, the R-word has acquired a dark new meaning with guys leaping out of bushes onto hapless maidens. Gangs perform gang-rape and film-stars perform off-camera roles with maids.

City children score better on memory skills than the world average, a study of more than 200 children using the latest version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) found. It was published earlier this year in the Bombay Psychologist, a respected Indian journal.

His brother is the suspect in the attack on Marathi channel IBN Lokmat?s office in Mumbai on Friday.

Nargis Dutt in a resplendent sari wearing a rather agonised expression stares down from several of Mehboob Studio?s ageing walls. Posters of Mother India abound at this half a century old film studio and iconic Bandra landmark.

The demands are justified but the manner of protest is wrong The report Bitter harvest (November 20) was shocking. The demands of the sugarcane farmers of Uttar Pradesh were justified but the manner in which they protested was disgusting.

Thane, Nov. 23 -- About 100 investors were allegedly cheated by a Thane-based finance company of over Rs 1 crore. The investors, who came from as far as Chembur, Govandi and Nashik, had gathered outside the locked office of 786 Sales and Services Company near Gaondevi maidan on Sunday demanding their money back.

The Amboli police on Saturday night arrested the driver of the security agency who allegedly stole the cash that was being transported for automated teller machines.

Police lobbed tear gas shells and lathicharged students at the Jawaharlal Nehru Univer-sity (JNU) campus on Sunday.