Unused nuclear fuel rods stored in the Tarapur Atomic Power Station in Maharashtra for the last 40 years are posing a major health hazard to the local environment. Instead of reprocessing them, as several nuclear scientists have suggested repeatedly to the Indian government, it has baulked from doing so fearing international reprisals.

The directorate-general of civil aviation (DGCA) has lodged a complaint with the Delhi police against a woman pilot for allegedly flying a commercial airliner on a fudged licence. Captain Parminder Kaur Gulati had allegedly repeatedly failed the test for her pilot’s licence but managed to get a licence by transposing her picture on the

An Air India aircraft carrying the first batch of Indians, 291 people, from strife-torn Libya was expected to land in New Delhi around midnight.
The Libyan government has given landing clearance for two Air India planes per day from Saturday till March 7 for evacuation of Indian nationals.

Bike-borne robbers snatched `1.8 lakhs in cash from a private firm employee in Ghaziabad on Saturday.
Surendra Kumar Sharma, an accountant with a polythene trader, had withdrawn `1.85 lakhs from Ambedkar Nagar branch of Punjab National Bank. As he came out of the bank, two men on a motorcycle intercepted him and snatched the bag containing cash at gunpoint and fled.

A young man committed suicide by pouring inflammable liquid on body and then setting himself on fire near the Lahori Gate police station on Saturday morning.
The deceased, whose identity has not been confirmed so far, was seen pouring some inflammable liquid over himself by a passerby on Saturday morning near a railway

A 26-year-old physical trainer at a gymnasium is lying in a critical state at the Maharishi Valmiki Hospital after he was shot by unidentified assailants in outer Delhi’s Kanjhawala area on Friday evening.

The senior executive of a private company, who was kidnapped in Noida on Thursday, has returned home safely. Police officers said that the family did not cooperate with them but they were working on leads to identify and arrest the kidnappers.

A young couple, including the daughter of a Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning weightlifter, have been arrested for allegedly using cloned credit cards to make purchases of expensive items from a mall. Four Nigerian nationals, who allegedly were the masterminds, are absconding. While the young man had completed his

Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal expressed his concern over the maddening commercialisation which is fast sapping the moral values out of our education system. Addressing the 88th annual convocation of Delhi University here on Saturday, Mr Sibal exhorted the students to be educated in the true sense and not aim at merely earning degrees.

Violent protests erupted in central Delhi’s Ranjeet Nagar area on Friday evening after a six-year-old boy fell into an open sewer and died.
The incident took place at around 10 pm when the deceased boy, Rahul, fell into an open sewer in New Ranjeet Nagar area.