New Delhi ,March 18: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has directed the Union government to reinstate Ms Nisha Priya Bhatia, a senior official of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) who was compulsorily retired after she attempted to commit suicide outside the Prime Minister’s Office on August 19, 2008. She had then alleged that a senior colleague had been harassing her. The officer will thus get all the consequential benefits of reinstatement. The tribunal also asked India’s external intelligence agency to “change its attitude with changing times”.

Ahmedabad ,March 18: The Narendra Modi government in Gujarat plans to set up the first prison in the country which will only house terrorists.
Making this announcement in the state Assembly on Thursday, Gujarat’s minister of state for home Amit Shah said the prison, which would cost Rs 20 crores and be completed in a year’s time, would house 600 prisoners.

Aurangabad, March 18: Five children were killed since December in a suspected case of child sacrifice in a village in Maharashtra’s Hingoli district. The police has arrested four persons, including three women, to unravel the mystery.
The boys, aged between 4-12 years, belong to a family in Digras village in Maharashtra and were killed between December 2009-March 2010, the police said.

Mumbai ,March 18: A minor tiff over noisy renovation work in a neighbour’s house turned into a violent drama in a conservative residential society in Andheri, leaving a minor and a senior citizen dead, and two policemen injured.
According to eye-witness accounts, Harish Moralia (60), a retired excise officer staying in B wing of Saujanya Apartments near Navrang Cinema, Andheri (W), was reportedly bothered by the ruckus due to renovation work in the Dalal residence above him and would have regular arguments over the noise.

Melbourne, March 18: A new book about 20th-century reporting by author John Simpson says Hitler declared cricket as “unmanly” and tried to rewrite the laws of the game. Simpson cites the piece as appearing in the Daily Mirror in 1930. He says that Oliver Locker-Lampson, an MP, decorated wartime veteran, right-wing zealot and fervent admirer of Hitler, wrote an article under the headline “Adolf Hitler As I Know Him” on September 30, 1930, as the Nazis’ rise to power gathered pace.

New Delhi ,March 18: Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has ruled out the export of surplus wheat lying in godowns and indicated that Above Poverty Line (APL) families might have to pay more to buy wheat and rice through the public distribution system. The allocation made for such families should also go up, he said.

Delhi Daredevils’ Tillakaratne Dilshan is bowled by Mumbai Indians’ Lasith Malinga during their IPL-3 match at Ferozshah Kotla ground in New Delhi on Wednesday. Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Daredevils by 98 runs. PHOTO: Pritam Bandyopadhyay

Chicago, March 17: In a new twist, Pakistani-American David Headley, a terror suspect in the Mumbai attacks, will plead guilty before a US court on Thursday, a move that may get him a lighter sentence than the maximum penalty — death.

New Delhi, March 17: The Indian security establishment is concerned that US security agencies may try and shield Laskhar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) operative David Headley, a Pakistani-origin American citizen, once he enters a plea bargain agreement on Thursday to escape a possible death sentence.

CHANDIGARH, March 17: A nine-year-old Indian boy abandoned by his mother in the UK more than two years ago can now return to family in Punjab after the ministry of external affairs finally granted him temporary travel documents on Wednesday. Gurinderjit was found