National News

CHENNAI: In a bid to highlight the need for a safe planet that now has seven billion people, about 40 babies will on Tuesday fast for an hour as part of the continuing protest against the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, an activist said.

RANCHI: Former Jharkhand chief minister, Madhu Koda was Monday injured after he was assaulted in a Ranchi jail where he is in judicial custody in connection with a multi-crore scam, but there were conflicting versions on who beat him up.

MAL: Nargis, a girl born Monday in this village in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, was welcomed as the world’s seven billionth baby - an honour she shares with a girl child born in the Philippines and a boy in Russia.

NEW DELHI:  The food ministry on Monday said the consultation process on the crucial national food security bill of the government is almost over and the draft bill will be presented to the cabinet by November 20.

PATAUDI (HARYANA):  Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was on Monday anointed the tenth Nawab of Pataudi at a ceremony at his ancestral palace here over a month after his father Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi passed away.

GUWAHATI:  Assam is a naturally well endowed with rich flora and fauna and a high number of endangered animals and birds, but environmentalists fear that the great adjutant stork, popularly known in local dialect as hargilla, is on the verge of extinction.

RALEGAN SIDDHI: Under all-round attack over allegations of financial misconduct and demands for its disbanding, Team Anna Sunday decided to formulate a Constitution for its anti-corruption movement and revamp the Core Committee after that.

NEW DELHI: In a surprise announcement, controversial corporate lobbyist, Ms Niira Radia, the owner of the PR firm which has Tata group and Mukesh Ambani-led RIL as its top clients, has decided to exit from communication consultancy business.

NEW DELHI: "Bandits and criminals" have been taking advantage of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and are raping, murdering, extorting money and using mafia practices and later blaming security forces for the crimes, says a Europe-based thinktank.

DHARAMSALA: The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) based in this Himachal Pradesh town Sunday appealed to the followers of Tibetan Buddhism to go vegetarian and stop animal slaughtering for a ceremony to be held in Bihar.