National News Headlines

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Saturday ridiculed Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray for attacking non-Marathis in Maharashtra and said that Delhi was truly cosmopolitan.

Women activists Saturday staged a demonstration against a cleric who spoke against Muslim women's participation in politics.

A three-member high profile delegation of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, External Minister S.M. Krishna and Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will leave for Kathmandu Sunday to represent India at the funeral of former Nepali prime minister G.P. Koirala.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh tried to sabotage Kerala's Athirappilly hydro-electric power project by invoking the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), state Electricity Minister A.K. Balan Saturday said and sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention in the matter.

A 26-year-old man allegedly committed suicide after consuming poison in front of his girlfriend's house in south Delhi early Saturday, police said.

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Two engineers and a labourer were killed and one seriously injured in a furnace blast in state-run National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) factory in this Punjab town, police said.

The Left Front government of Tripura Saturday announced a special economic package for girl child in families living below the poverty line (BPL) to continue their education and maintain the minimum required nourishment.

At a place where the Bharatiya Jana Sangh's founder Shyama Prasad Mookherjee broke the permit restriction to visit Jammu and Kashmir in 1953, leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) Saturday called for a "second struggle" for abolition of the Constitution's Article 370 and complete integration of the state with the rest of India.

A fast track court in Orissa's Kandhamal district Saturday acquitted 14 people, including a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator, in a Kandhamal riot case, an official said.