National News

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.

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Scuffles and slogans disrupted the Rajya Sabha Tuesday after Home Minister P. Chidambaram tabled the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry report that probed the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

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.

Shimla, Nov 24 (IANS) Piyara Singh's hopes of casting votes in the next general elections along with his wife Hansa Devi have come to an end.

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The Liberhan Commission of Inquiry report was tabled in the Lok Sabha Tuesday.

Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) Suspected Maoist guerrillas killed a local Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said Tuesday.

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till noon Tuesday over demands from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that the Rs.2,500 crore money laundering scam allegedly involving former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda be discussed.

Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) Normal life remained virtually unaffected in West Bengal Tuesday despite a dawn-to-dusk shutdown called by the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), an ally of opposition Congress-Trinamool Congress combine in the state. It is protesting on various issues including rises in the prices of essential commodities.

Mumbai, Nov 24 (IANS) Force One, Maharashtra's own elite security force designed on the lines of the National Security Guard (NSG), was commissioned Tuesday, just two days before the 26/11 anniversary. It is specifically trained to tackle terrorism challenges and will 'always remain one step ahead of the terrorists', Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said here.

Jeddah, Nov 24 (IANS) A 25-member Indian Haj goodwill delegation visited this port city of Saudi Arabia and interacted with Haj pilgrims there, expressing their satisfaction with the arrangements made by the Indian Haj mission.

Raipur, Nov 24 (IANS) A leopard, which injured many children in a Chhattisgarh village last week, was found dead in a pond in Mahasamund district, a forest department official said Tuesday.

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The capital woke up to yet another chilly morning Tuesday, with the minimum temperature touching 9.3 degrees Celsius. Met officials, however, predicted that the mercury will rise over the next few days.

Mumbai, Nov 24 (IANS) A year after 26/11, a Bhendi Bazaar resident, 68-year old Mohammed Hanif Peer Mohammed, still remembers his beloved brother-in-law, Mastan Qureshi, 50, who fell a victim to terrorists' bullets at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) that night.

Bangalore, Nov 24 (IANS) Achoe does not remember much of his childhood in Tibet. The 18-year-old, now in an orphanage in Karnakata, left his motherland when he was around four. But all these years, all he has yearned for is to go back home and meet his relatives.

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Alarmed by rising incidents of aggression and violence among adolescents, a hospital here has started a life skills training programme for students in various schools in the capital to help them manage behavioural problems.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Targets of India's solar mission:
. To create an enabling policy framework for the deployment of 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) As a political storm engulfed parliament over 'leakage' of the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri mosque demolition, some Muslim clerics and leaders Monday demanded that the long pending truth behind the 'unfortunate' incident should be made public officially and the culprits punished.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) No blacklisted armaments company will be awarded contracts unless their names are cleared by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that is probing them, parliament was informed Monday.

Agartala, Nov 23 (IANS) Border Security Force (BSF) Director General (DG) Raman Srivastava Monday directed the officials and troopers of the para-military force to further tighten the vigil along India's border with Bangladesh, officials here said.

Jagatsinghpur (Orissa), Nov 23 (IANS) Exhibiting rare love and affection, a cow has been feeding two baby goats in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district for the past two months, the cow's owner said Monday.