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New Delhi, Mar 25: Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad had to travel by train on Friday after domestic airlines unitedly “banned” him from flying on their aircraft for assaulting an Air India officer. He boarded August Kranti Express for Mumbai from Hazrat Nizamuddin station, said a senior Railway Ministry official. The Sena MP has booked three berths — 21, 22 and 23 — in coach number A-1 of AC II tier

Lucknow, Mar 24: Serving mutton and chicken to those used to buffalo meat in their daily diet could well mean a tasty delight, but not in the case of carnivorous species in Lucknow zoo and the lion safari in Etawah. With the crackdown on slaughterhouses by the state government, authorities have been forced to switch over to mutton and chicken which is not going down well with the big cats and is

Washington, Mar 24: A bill seeking to prevent US companies from outsourcing jobs overseas by "abusing" H1-B programme has been re-introduced in the House of Representatives and may hit Indian IT firms and professionals. Democratic Congressman Derek Kilmer and his Republican colleague Doug Collins introduced the bill aimed at stopping employers, that are awarded temporary visas through the H-1B

Lahore, Mar 24: The civil society members and academics in Pakistan have demanded a public apology from the British Queen for the “unjust killings” of Indian freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev as the country marked their 86th death anniversary. The main event was organised by the Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation at Lahore’s Fawara Chowk yesterday where the three freedom fighters

New Delhi, Mar 24: An unrepentant Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad today said that he would not apologise to the Air India staffer whom he assaulted, and instead blamed the airline employee for the incident. The MP drew more flak today, with four private Indian carriers banning him from flying, while Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathy Raju promised that action would be taken against him. Gaikwad

New Delhi, Mar 24: Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad was today barred from flying by four private Indian carriers after his brazen assault on an Air India officer. The Federation of Indian Airlines, which has Jet Airways, IndiGo, SpiceJet and GoAir as its members, has taken a "strong view of the incident and accordingly taken a decision to bar Gaikwad from flying", an FIA source said. The FIA will not

New Delhi, Mar 24: Over 20,000 resident doctors in the national capital on Thursday went on mass casual leave in solidarity with their Maharashtra counterparts, leading to postponement of over 800 surgeries across Delhi government and civic body-run hospitals, and also left thousands of patients in the lurch with OPD functions hit. Resident doctors in Delhi went on mass casual leave in solidarity

New Delhi, Mar 24: The government is working on an institutional mechanism to check "undesirable flight behaviour" while Air India is mulling preparing a no-fly list for unruly passengers. This follows an incident on Thursday at the IGI airport in Delhi in which a Shiv Sena MP allegedly assaulted a 60-year-old airline staffer. Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said such regrettable

Ayodhya, Mar 23: Dismissing the role of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy as negotiator for the Ram temple issue, the main parties to the case today demanded setting up a panel of Supreme Court judges to initiate the talks in the vexed matter. The Supreme Court had on Tuesday suggested an out-of-court settlement of the lingering Ram Janmabhoomi- Babri Masjid land dispute at Ayodhya, observing that

New Delhi, Mar 23: Leaders across party lines reacted sharply today to the incident where a Shiv Sena MP thrashed an Air India staffer and demanded strict penal action against the legislator, terming the incident as "sad and unfortunate". Although Shiv Sena supported its legislator, saying he is not the kind of person who loses his temper, the Congress threatened to rake up the issue in Parliament