Striking Air India pilots seek prime minister’s intervention

With both the court and the management taking a stern view on their persistence with their stir despite contempt proceedings, 600-odd pilots of Air India on Tuesday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to end the impasse. As the strike entered the seventh day, the state-run carrier has cancelled 165 flights in the domestic and  [ Read More ]

Citizens seek details of elected representatives’ spending

‘A hue and cry is being made because of the dirty rooms in the Commonwealth Games Village, but no one is concerned about the filthy conditions that we live in,’ said Rajesh Kumar, a slum dweller, at a meeting here Sunday to question the spendings of elected leaders. The slum dweller from Sangam Vihar in  [ Read More ]