The Indian Institute of Technology, Powai (IIT-B) batch of 1985 have committed to raise `4.5 crores or $1 million, towards promoting on campus Technology & Sustainable Development (T&SD) through academics and entrepreneurship. The alumni has already promised around `2 crores, which will be ceremonially presented to the institute on Alumni Day, December 26, as part of the silver jubilee reunion programme.

When K. Karunakaran returned to Kerala after anointing Mr P.V. Narasimha Rao as Prime Minister in 1991, his hysteric followers welcomed him at the airport with placards that screamed, “You are not just the king-maker; you are the king.”

The state government forcibly ended the Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu’s seven-day fast at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences as his health condition further deteriorated on Thursday.

Imposing President’s Rule is another option that the Union government might consider to quell violence in Andhra Pradesh after the Justice Srikrishna panel report is submitted. It will also nullify the threat of Opposition parties to force mid-term polls.

The private schools in the capital have indicated that they will raise the fees to compensate the financial burden in the wake of reserving seats for the Economically Weaker Section students.

The Delhi Metro has inducted two six-coach trains on the crowded Noida Line to ease the rush. The trains began their maiden journey at 9.30 pm Thursday from the Yamuna Bank Station. The passengers can heave a sigh of relief as the trains used to be overcrowded during peak hours.

Two management students were killed while three others, including two girls, suffered critical injuries as a Maruti Suzuki SX4 was hit by an unidentified vehicle in Ghazipur area of east Delhi on Thursday night.

At least a dozen BPO employees, including a woman, were injured when the bus they were travelling in fell off the DND flyway in Noida on Thursday evening.
The incident occurred at around 7.15 pm when a bus carrying 20 employees of a BPO, skidded off the main carriageway, broke through the railing and fell off.

The MCD on Thursday carried its encroachment removal, sealing and demolition drive in various areas of the capital. In Karol Bagh, it got cleared at least 2,500 square metre of MCD land by removing the cars and motorcycles illegally parked in the second hand automobile markets on Arya Samaj Road and nearby areas.

Even as the city government initiated sale of onions through 400 outlets at the rate of `40 per kg, the retail prices remained at `60 per kg and above in city markets. Tomatoes were sold in retail around `35 per kg and above in markets. Items like garlic and green chilly were perched at well over `100 a kg.