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New Delhi, May 11: Crisis-ridden Air India has stopped booking for all flights to North America and Europe till next Tuesday (May 15) as the striking pilots of the erstwhile AI did not resume work despite a clear Delhi high court order. While the airline had asked the 293 pilots who had reported sick till Wednesday night to report to work by 10 am on Thursday, 12 more members of the Indian Pilots

Mumbai, May 11: The Reserve Bank of India ordered exporters to convert half of their foreign exchange earnings kept in bank accounts into Indian rupee to prop up the worst-performing BRICS currency, a day after it closed at a record low, prompting fears of a further slide. But the relief lasted only a few hours before the rupee resumed its decline since the order could bring in just about $3

New Delhi, May 11: In its closure report filed in the Zakia Jafri case, the R.K. Raghavan-led Special Investigation Team says Ms. Jafri's husband and former MP Ehsan Jafri was killed because he provoked a “violent mob” that had assembled “to take revenge of Godhra incident from the Muslims.” Ehsan Jafri fired at the mob and “the provoked mob stormed the society and set it on fire.” Around 70

Ahmedabad, May 10: Zakia Jaffery, wife of Congress leader Ehsaan Jaffrey slain in post-Godhra riots, today moved a court seeking documents from SIT related to the probe carried out by the agency, based on her complaint against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others, with regards to the 2002 violence. In an application to the metropolitan court here, Zakia's lawyer Sadik Sheikh demanded 18

Madurai, May 10: Amid the controversy over appointment of self-styled godman Nityananda as head of the Madurai Adheenam, the Madras High Court today dismised a PIL seeking a direction to the government to take over the ancient Saivite Mutt. The Madurai Bench of the Court also dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by a disciple of the Dharmapura Adheenam seeking to produce the pontiff of Madurai

Chennai, May 10: Opposition today targeted P Chidambaram in the Lok Sabha over the Aircel-Maxis deal, dubbing it as a ''big scam'' allegedly involving his son but the Home Minister dismissed the charges as ''wild and reckless''. Declaring that neither he nor any member of his family had acquired or had any stake in Aircel or Maxis, Chidambaram quoted from a statement of his son Karthi, hours after

Ahmedabad, May 10: What was the need for amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran to put down these words in his final report before the Supreme Court which became public this week? "The cost for boarding and lodging for both the amicus curiae at BSF mess, Gandhinagar as well as the cost for local transportation by private taxi was arranged by the SIT...the cost of travel from Delhi to Ahmedabad and back

Dolhara (Thane District), May 10: Many myths surround the death of 41-year-old Parvati Jadhav, an adivasi woman in Dolhara. Officials attribute it to a heat stroke, and some say it was a cardiac arrest, but people in the village have no doubts about the reason. “Parvati was a sacrifice to the severe shortage of water here,” says Yashoda Wargade. “Why don't they just poison us instead of killing us

New Delhi, May 10: In a shocking disclosure, some drug companies have been caught red-handed writing scientific recommendations of their own products and submitting them to the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) after getting them endorsed by top doctors for a quicker marketing approval. Usually, scientific recommendations are submitted by experts after they have studied a drug's content. The

Ahmedabad, May 10: The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team has totally disagreed with the observations of amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran, and said no case can be made out against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the 2002 communal riots under any of the Sections of the Indian Penal Code mentioned by him. Mr. Ramachandran, in his report, which formed part of