Sources said the decks have been cleared for transfer of 1,000 acres of land to the Tatas. Modi’s council of ministers will meet at 10 am before the Tata team arrives. The land which the Tatas have to finally select is located within a 2200-acre campus owned by the Anand Agriculture University which serves as a cattle and seed farm.

The incident occurred on Monday at 10 am when the Kingfisher Red flight IT-3342 began the taxiing process for Pune. It had 154 passengers onboard. “The security staff at the step ladder asked him to assist the passenger in carrying the baggage from boarding gate to aircraft and come back quickly,” said an airline source, requesting anonymity. As the passenger was not well, the loader was further asked to arrange the hand baggage inside the overhead bin. Meanwhile, the pilot got permission to taxi and the doors were closed. “The plane had started moving as it was being pushed back from the parking bay. At this the loader, who was arranging the baggage panicked and alerted the cabin crew,” the source said. The doors of the plane closed at 10 am. After the fiasco, the plane doors were closed again at 10.15 am and it again started the taxiing process at 10.20 am.

“Before the aircraft doors are closed, the cabin crew does a headcount and fills a sheet. It is strange how they missed the loader who was inside the plane,” the source said. “The incident shows the cabin crew and also the duty manager took the whole process very casually,” he said.

From now on, the entitlement for travel on the First Class, even for the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the airline, and all levels of other executives, stand withdrawn, sources said. These top executives would now be allowed to travel only on the Business Class, while the First Class would be meant solely for those travelling on paid tickets. A similar initiative has been taken in regard to requests for allowing excess baggage free of charge, as part of the overall corporate policy to enhance revenue.

Sources said these specific moves, along with several other major initiatives to reduce costs, have brought about some “financial discipline” in the company.

This camp in west Delhi is barely 15 km from Parliament House. To this day, this group of Christians is holding weekly mass with police protection. The families say they are living in constant fear of local miscreants allegedly owing allegiance to ‘‘some religious organisations’‘ who accuse them of carrying out ‘‘forced conversions’‘ and threaten to ‘‘take away’‘ their daughters unless they ‘‘mended their ways.’‘

Some 32 Democrats and 26 Republicans switched positions to vote for the Senate-passed bill, pushing it through the House by 263-171. President Bush quickly signed the measure, praising Congress for rallying behind the rescue package.

Union leader Dinesh Chaturvedi told the BBC News website that managers had agreed to their demands.

Unions said staff were working unreasonable hours and in many cases producers were months behind in payments to their staff.

The strike had also hit the booming television production in Mumbai (Bombay) in western India.

The rickshawpullers might be the next green warriors if the solar rickshaw project is successful. Driven by solar energy, it will not only put a zero emission vehicle on the road but will also ease off the burden on a rickshaw puller.

We have created a list of 10 overused words, based on the documents we have edited over the last 5 years. We don’t recommend that you remove these words from your writing. Instead, we recommend that you become aware of how often you use them and that you revise your documents to limit their use.

1. There
When writers are not sure about the subjects of their sentences, they will often use this word as the subject. This results in weak writing. (For advice on correcting this problem, see our article “Where Is There?”)

Example: “There was no one at home.” This can be revised as “No one was at home.”

2. You

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (CNN) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed Sen. Barack Obama’s political relationship with a former anti-war radical, accusing him of associating “with terrorists who targeted their own country.”

Palin’s attack delivered on the McCain campaign’s announcement that it would step up attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate with just a month left before the November general election.

“We see America as the greatest force for good in this world,” Palin said at a fund-raising event in Colorado, adding, “Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”

Palin made similar comments later at a rally in Carson, California.

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Footage from the security cameras at Alice Springs Reptile Centre caught the child smiling as he killed a total of 13 animals.

During his 30-minute spree, he was seen hurling the animals over the security fence into the crocodile enclosure.

Zoo officials described the boy’s actions as “unbelievable”

The attack happened on Wednesday morning after the boy entered the zoo by jumping over the security fence and evading sensor alarms.

Over the next half hour, he bludgeoned some of the animals to death with stones and hurled others over the two fences surrounding the crocodile enclosure.

At one point, he tried scaling the outer enclosure himself to get to “Terry”, the 11ft (3.3m) saltwater crocodile.

A turtle, four Western blue-tongued lizards, two bearded dragons, two thorny devil lizards and the zoo’s 20-year-old goanna were among those killed.

Coming down heavily on Banerjee, Tata wondered about the source of funds for the prolonged agitation. “I would not like to respond (whether the competitors played a role). But it has made us wonder where some of the funds for agitation and the logistics has come from. I had said earlier that if somebody holds a trigger to my face, he will have to take the decision whether or not to pull the trigger, because I will not move away. I must say Ms Banerjee has pulled the trigger. This decision has been prompted because we do not see any change on the horizon,” Tata said. “Throughout the two years we have faced enormous disruption and assault and intimidation of some of the employees.”

Laying the responsibility for Singur fiasco completely at Banerjee’s doorstep, Tata said: “What could we have done when Ms Banerjee says ‘I won’t allow a single Nano to roll out’? How do we go on with production when Ms Banerjee publicly says people of West Bengal do not want us?” Tata gave details of the chain of events that led to the decision and said: “When I addressed the media last time, I had hoped some understanding will be arrived at with the protesters. But shortly thereafter the agitation increased. The highway (near the Nano plant) was barricaded.” He, was, however, full of praise for the state’s Left Front government. “These two years that we have worked, we are appreciative of the support the government gave us, the facilities the government provided. The agitation by the opposition is the sole reason for the decision.”

The five-member team of students pursuing B.Tech from Babu Banarasi Das National Institute of Technology and Management won the Go-Alive Challenge Contest of the Microsoft Corp India Pvt Ltd.

“By securing first position in the national-level contest, our students have brought laurels for the entire state,” A.K. Mitra, director of the college, told sources.

Professor M B Puranik, convenor of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in Karnataka, spoke to Special Correspondent Vicky Nanjappa about the burning issue and how he felt that conversions was a larger issue since it “not only reduced a member of a community but also created a new enemy to the nation”. He also spoke about the allegations that some right-wing outfits were involved in terror-related activities.

Days later Jackson was fined for breaking KFC’s 75-minute car parking limit. “It’s disgusting. I spend a lot of money in there. Now I’m never going back,” The Sun quoted Jackson, as saying. “It didn’t feel like I was in there all that long. We were hungry,” Jackson added.

Following the case, KFC has said that restaurant parking was contracted to private firm Civil Enforcement Ltd — but promised to review Natalie’s case. “A parking restriction was introduced to prevent non-KFC customers using the car park,” a spokesman for KFC said.

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But the Government’s diktat has the nation split down the middle on whether smoking should be banned in public or not.

Is a ban on smoking injurious to personal freedom? That was the question raised on CNN-IBN show Face the Nation.

On the panel of experts to debate the issue were actor Moon Moon Sen, social activist and ad guru Alyque Padamsee and Editor-in-Chief of The Pioneer Chandan Mitra.

Cell phone records of Robert Sanchez, who was among the dead, show he received a text message a minute and 20 seconds before the crash and sent one about a minute later, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a news release

An East African maritime group, which is monitoring the situation, told the BBC that three men were shot but the extent of their injuries was unclear.

Pirates seized the Ukrainian ship last week, demanding a $20m (£11m) ransom.

Station House Officer (SHO) K S Pannu said police would divulge the identity of those identified by it only after their arrests only.

“Police teams have zeroed in on the accused and they can be arrested any time,” he said adding raids are being conducted in various places in Haryana to locate them.

Pannu said the police have recovered the jeep (Scorpio) allegedly used by the accused in the abduction of the 20-year-old girl.

“The third runway, all of 4,430 metres long, became operational with the landing of a British Airways plane from Heathrow at 6.20 am,” a Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) spokesperson said.

The Civil Aviation Ministry on Wednesday, in a meeting chaired by Joint Secretary K N Srivastava, had decided to make the new runway (29-11) commercially operational from 6 am Thursday morning.

After a meeting at the Jamaat e Islami Hind in New Delhi [Images], held in the wake of the Jamia Nagar encounter in which two youth were shot dead and a police inspector was killed, they formed a five-member panel to counter the campaign against the community.

Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, head of the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, who is a member of this five-member committee, tells Special Correspondent Vicky Nanjappa that anger among the Muslim, especially among the youth, is building up over the continuing demonisation of the community.

In a major setback to not only the Bush administration, but also to global markets, the US House of Representatives on Monday rejected the $700 billion emergency rescue package to bailout bankrupt American financial institutions. The House voted against the package 228 to 205.

The bailout plan was nixed not only because the figure of the financial assistance — $700 billion — was almost pulled out of thin air without solid basis, but also because the American taxpayer was supposed to fund it. The anger that bubbled over and poured onto the streets in the form of protests and demonstrations across the United States was one of the main reasons why the plan was vetoed.

The consequences were instant. The benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by a whopping 777.68 points, the highest ever in American history, to touch 10,365.45. The Nasdaq fell by 199.61 points to settle at 1,983.73.

Presided by the army’s 10 Corps commander Lt Gen. R.S. Sujalana, the general court martial delivered its verdict against Major General A.K. Lal yesterday at Bhatinda.

Lal was serving as the 3 Infantry Division general officer commanding in Leh last year when the woman officer, Captain Neha Rawat, in a written complaint against the two-star general alleged sexual misconduct under the pretext of conducting meditation classes at his residence.

Lal will lose his pension and ex-serviceman benefits, if the verdict is confirmed by army chief General Deepak Kapoor.

Today we are sharing 5 very simple and handy ways to save images from orkut albums.

In nuclear-armed Pakistan, Prime Minister Gilani said the deal should not be seen as a cause for concern. “You don’t have to be worried about it,” Gilani said in his home town of Multan when asked about the deal. “Pakistan will now be justified to also make a demand for a similar deal as we don’t want discrimination,” Gilani said. “Pakistan will also now make efforts for a civil nuclear (deal) and they will have to accommodate us,” he added.

Twinkle Dwivedi has a rare condition where she bleeds spontaneously from any part of her body

Twinkle’s symptoms began when she was 12

Twinkle Dwivedi, 13, has a strange disorder which means she loses blood through her skin without being cut or scratched.

She has even undergone transfusions after pints of it seeped through her eyes, nose, hairline, neck and the soles of her feet.

The proposal is an alternative to that proposed by US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Times of India seems to be in regular habit plagiarizing. This time it is a photograph by Shrinidhi in their Chennai supplement.

Mr Schofield chose the logos of news aggregator Digg.com, Facebook, YouTube and Firefox, among others, all of which were faithfully printed as requested. Mr Schofield was apparently delighted with the blinds – but his happiness was regrettably short lived after his wife took umbrage to his taste in interior decor.

“It was coming anyway,” Mr Schofield told Nets2Go, putting a commendably brave face on. “My design choice for the blinds was pretty much the nail in the coffin.”

“She doesn’t understand the intense geek in me. And anyway, the only one she’d even heard of was YouTube”.

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The agreement to be inked later in the day after summit talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will form the basis of wide ranging bilateral cooperation from basic and applied research to full civil nuclear cooperation, including reactors and fuel supplies, nuclear safety, radiation and environment protection and nuclear fuel cycle management.

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