The southwest monsoon has not advanced much in the last few days because of lack of speedy winds but the Indian Meteorological Department is sticking to its prediction that it would set in over Kerala

The Air India employees’ strike had led to large-scale disruption of flights of Air India (domestic). Well over 100 flights were cancelled by the airline during the 30-hour strike even as about 13,000 passengers were affected by the strike that cost the airline about Rs 12 crores. Air India sources said it could take between two to four days to ensure complete flight operations normalcy, considering the large-scale cancellation of flights. Air India (domestic) will operate 78 flights on Thursday.

Expensive gifts to charm girlfriend and IPL betting led a 23-year-old to burglaries in various areas of south and southeast Delhi. However, Praveen Kumar and his associate Biru (22) ran out of luck after a police team arrested the duo on Tuesday from the Lodhi Colony area.

Deputy leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Chaudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi on Wednesday demanded a judicial probe into the death of Choti Bai Jatav, an old dalit woman, due to extreme hunger and excessive thirst during the Bhind district collector’s public hearing on May 18.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed Delhi commissioner of police Y.S. Dadwal to conduct an independent probe into the MCD’s “ghost” employees scam and submit the report in two months.

Confusion prevailed among the ministers and the police even two days after arresting Abdul Samad Bhatkal, the prime suspect of the Pune blast. On Monday, the day he was arrested, state home minister R.R. Patil denied his involvement in the blast. Contradicting that on Tuesday, Union home minister P. Chidambaram congratulated the

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday stated that the rape of a 30-year-old woman allegedly by a traffic policeman is a “very serious matter” and appropriate action will be taken against the guilty.

Anumula Jithendar Reddy from Madras zone topped the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination 2010 from amongst a total of 13,104 candidates who cleared the examination. Over 4.5 lakh candidates had appeared in JEE-2010 for seeking admission to 9,509 seats in 15 IITs, ISM Dhanbad and IT-BHU.

The Duta have threatened to stay away from admission process this academic session allegedly over the vice-chancellor’s arbitrary ways of imposing semester system. In a general body meeting of science teachers held on Wednesday, the science teachers resolved to keep themselves away from all kinds of work involved in the implementation of the semester system.

Indian troops shot dead two infiltrating militants near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Wednesday, officials here said.
A defence spokesperson confirming it said here that the Army foiled an infiltration bid along the de facto border in Tangdhar sector, about 140-km northwest of h