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Malaysia asked India to join the expanding search for the missing Boeing 777 near the Andaman Sea.
An explosion followed by a fire at a pair of apartment buildings in upper Manhattan on Wednesday has left two people dead and at least 22 injured, officials say.
Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday skipped a joint rally with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the Ramlila Maidan here citing ill health. Hazare along with Trinamool Congress supremo was scheduled to address a rally here. I had work but I still came, as I had promised," the visibly upset Trinamool Congress leader. Hazare's associate Sunita Godara, earlier said that the former was not well and hence will not be able to attend the rally.
Malaysia's military has traced what could have been the jetliner missing for almost five days to an area near Andaman and Nicobar islands, hundreds of miles from its last known position, the country's air force chief said on Wednesday. After a series of at times conflicting statements, the latest revelation underlined that authorities remain uncertain even where to look for the plane, and no closer to explaining what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 or the 239 people on board. The flight disappeared from civilian radar screens shortly before 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, as it flew northeast across the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand bound for Beijing. Malaysian air force chief Rodzali Daud told a news conference that an aircraft was plotted on military radar at 2:15 a.m., 200 miles (320 km) northwest of Penang Island off Malaysia's west coast.
The RSS was not involved in the killing of Mahatma Gandhi, BJP patriarch L.K. Advani said in a blog, quoting Gandhi's grandson Rajmohan Gandhi Wednesday. Advani's blog 'Mahatma was perhaps not right' Wednesday also said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's contributions have not been acknowledged. "This book by Rajmohan Gandhi has effectively nailed the Congress party's slanderous campaign against the RSS in respect of Mahatmaji's assassination," Advani wrote. The BJP leader said that Rajmohan Gandhi in his book on Patel quoted a letter dated Feb 27, 1948, written by Patel to Jawaharlal Nehru.
There was chaos at the Churchgate Station in Mumbai on Wednesday after Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal decided to take a local train. Hundreds of supporters gathered at Mumbai's Churchgate Station and reportedly damaged metal detectors set up there in the hope of meeting their party leader. Kejriwal, who arrived here today on three-day tour of Maharashtra, first took an auto-rickshaw from the domestic terminal of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport to board a local train from Santa Cruz to Churchgate, where hundreds of his supporters gathered to welcome him.
Coastguards from the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands joined the airborne search on Wednesday for a missing Malaysian airliner, a senior official told Reuters. A Dornier aircraft belonging to the coastguard set off at 2.30 p.m. local time to search the eastern side of the Andaman islands, on orders from New Delhi, said VSR Murthy, the inspector general of the coastguard service on the islands. The airliner, which had 239 people on board, vanished from air traffic control screens midway between Malaysia's east coast and Vietnam. Malaysia's military radar has detected what could have been the jetliner in the northern Malacca Strait, a stretch of water that flows into the Andaman Sea, Malaysia's air force chief said earlier on Wednesday.
Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, who is in judicial custody here, regularly telephoned from prison a Delhi-based woman business associate, an inquiry report said Wednesday. The report filed before the Margao district and sessions court Wednesday by prison authorities also said a SIM card seized from Tejpal's prison cell at the Sada sub-jail, 35 km from here, was registered in the name of a woman from a Panaji suburb. It said Tejpal regularly called Sheela Lunkad, who is Tejpal's partner in a hospitality venture. Sheela Lunkad, Rajeev Lunkad, Tejpal and his wife Geetan Batra Tejpal are partners in a private limited company.
Oscar Pistorius was on his stumps when he smashed down a locked toilet door to reach his shot girlfriend, a South African police forensic expert said on Wednesday, countering the Paralympic star's assertion he was wearing his prosthetic legs at the time.
Budget airline SpiceJet has signed a deal with Boeing Co to buy 42 737 MAX jets in a deal worth $4.4 billion at list prices, the company said on Wednesday, sending its shares up more than 7 percent during trade. The order, which Reuters first reported in January, could help the loss-making Indian carrier, India's fourth-biggest airline by market share, as it seeks new investors. Delivery of the new jets will begin in 2018, S.L. Narayanan, chief financial officer at SpiceJet's parent, Sun Group, told reporters at an air show in Hyderabad. Narayanan said some payments for the latest order would be adjusted against the 12 Boeing 737 NG planes from an ongoing order SpiceJet will be swapping for 737 MAX.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Shazia Ilmi on Wednesday put to rest on any differences existing between the AAP and herself over her decision not to contest from Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, in the 2014 general elections. "If I have written something on Twitter just to express my thoughts as to why I am not contesting from Rae Bareli, does that amount to being a rebellion. The AAP leader also tried to corroborate with facts that how hard it will be for her to contest from Rae Bareli. "I have no idea or whereabouts on Rae Bareli, as I do not live in that place.
Ram Kripal Yadav, who resigned from the Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) after being denied a ticket for the Lok Sabha polls, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here today. BJP president Rajnath Singh made the announcement at the party headquarters here. The former aide of RJD chief Lalu Prasad said: "Grateful to the BJP for accepting me into the party fold." Vowing to work for the BJP as a grassroot worker, Yadav hit out at Lalu Prasad and accused the RJD chief of playing "dynasty politics".
The incident apparently took place after an altercation between the girl and an auto-rickshaw driver.
