The principal of La Martiniere for Boys, Sunirmal Chakravarthi has expressed regret for having caned Rouvanjit Rawla, the Class 8 student who committed suicide. He, however, does not accept the charge that the punishment led to the child’s death. “I am really sorry for caning him and I have already apologised but it is not fair to link the

Pregnant moms who prefer being glued to the idiot box late nights better watch out. A recently-concluded study by the department of community medicine at Madras Medical College, that surveyed 1.5 million pregnant women from seven districts, found that the newborns of moms who were glued to television soaps post 10 pm cried irritably even after being fed.

Passengers on board an Air India (domestic) flight had a narrow escape when a rear tyre of the aircraft got deflated after landing at the New Delhi IGI airport on Tuesday morning. The aircraft, which had flown on the Mumbai-Indore-Bhopal-Delhi sector, landed at Delhi and then taxied down when ground staff noted sparks from the tyre.

“I would like to stay here and continue my studies” replied a 16-year-old boy — caught in the crossfire of inter-continental marital dispute between his parents — to lawyers’ queries in the Supreme Court.

The government has decided to deploy Central security forces to remove the blockade of the national highways that form the vital supply line to Manipur, setting Friday as the deadline for the Naga groups to end the blockade. “If they don’t withdraw the blockade, we will move a convoy of goods trucks on Friday with tight security,” a government official said on Tuesday.

Hit by controversies after senior party leaders and ministers targeted each other in the media, the Congress on Tuesday asked its leaders not air their views in public or interact with the media on issues beyond their respective briefs and responsibilities.

All the Indian nationals stranded in the two violence-hit towns of Osh and Jalalabad in Kyrgyzstan were safely evacuated by air on Monday night to the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek. The airlift was arranged by the Indian embassy in Bishkek with the active cooperation and support of the Kyrgyz authorities. There were an estimated 116 Indian

Former Union minister and expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh is all set to return to the saffron party. In the wake of initiatives by BJP president Nitin Gadkari and senior leader L.K. Advani to bring him back, an announcement is expected soon. Mr Singh was expelled from the BJP in August last year after releasing a book in which he had praised Pakistan’s founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah.

The Madhya Pradesh government came on the backfoot on Tuesday and issued orders to remove Swaraj Puri as member of grievance redressal authority (Madhya Pradesh Narmada projects) after the media questioned his post retirement appointment pointing out that he was the Bhopal superintendent of police and had driven

Residents of several South Delhi areas had to sweat it out with long powercuts all through Tuesday. Delhi Transco Ltd attributed the disruption to work for installing a transmission tower near the Rajokri flyover to ensure power supply to Delhi airport. The heavy powercuts are likely to continue till the coming Sunday.