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October 2nd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Over 13.1 million electors will decide the fate of 1,222 candidates in the election to the 90-member Haryana assembly to be held Oct 13. Haryana's Chief Electoral Officer Sajjan Singh said Friday that out of the total voters 7,147,100 were male while and 5,965,911 were female voters.

September 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has apologised for his "cattle class" travel remark, saying he was "sorry" for hurting any sentiments and that his words had been misunderstood. Tharoor ran into trouble for a message he posted on the social networking site Twitter in which he said sarcastically in response to a query that he would travel "cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows!".

September 17th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - In a bid to provide quick, hassle free and reasonably charged mode of transportation, a dial-an-auto service equipped with GPS navigation system has been launched for the first time in Chandigarh. The neat and clean pink coloured motor rickshaws, known as Tuk Tuk, are changing the way people travel in the city.

August 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - At least 20 flights were delayed and 10 diverted in the national capital Friday evening following gale and torrential rains that also flooded and damaged a portion of the new domestic terminal building. "Heavy downpour resulted in some water entering into the domestic terminal building 1D.

May 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Friday asked the chief secretaries and chief electoral officers of all states to ensure that children below the age of 14 are not employed in any election-related work. 'The Commission has taken strong exception to use of children in work connected with elections.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday accused the Congress-led central government of clamming up on outgoing Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami's recommendations asking for the removal of his colleague Navin Chawla.

April 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 7-year-old Chinese girl dialled a police hotline 700 times during in one month, thinking that it was fun to dial 110 and hear police talk. Cops in Weng'an county, Guizhou province, revealed that the calls came from a mobile phone.

April 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The new domestic terminal at the Indira Gandhi International Airport will start commercial operations April 19, it was announced Tuesday. Built at a cost of Rs.500 crore ($100 million), the terminal will be able to handle 10 million passengers annually and is equipped with 72 check-in counters, its developers said.

March 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Five domestic and global hospitality companies have been selected to build deluxe and five-star hotels around the international airport here, with the target of completing the projects before the Commonwealth Games next year. Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), the airport developer, has awarded the contracts to Accor, InterGlobe Hotels, Lemon Tree, Bird Group and Hyatt, the company's major stakeholder GMR said in a regulatory statement Monday.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has asked at least 4,000 of its employees working at the Delhi and Mumbai airports to either opt for the voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) or work at other AAI-owned airports, an official said Wednesday. The AAI official, who did not want to be identified, told IANS that the decision has to be implemented at the earliest and such VRS offers will be made to employees in some other airports also.

March 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Monday asked all airlines flying out of Delhi to collect development fee from the passengers while issuing air tickets, and not when they are checking in at the airport. 'The development fee should then be remitted to DIAL (Delhi International Airport Ltd, the developer of Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport) in line with the system procedure,' a statement issued by the civil aviation ministry said.

February 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The international airport was Wednesday battling power outages with no lifts or escalators working, a day ahead of the inauguration of a new departure terminal. Though essential services were functioning normally, commuters, many of them with heavy bags, had a harrowing time with neither lifts nor escalators working at the dimly lit Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport.

February 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Tuesday asked the government to reverse its decision to allow the Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) to charge 'development fees' from passengers. The government announced Monday that DIAL would charge from March Rs.200 from domestic passengers and Rs.1,300 from international passengers due to the company's inability to raise money from lenders and the market.

January 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Haj terminal, an exclusive terminal for Haj pilgrims at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here, has come in for praise from the Delhi government Thursday. 'We are very satisfied with the entire Haj operation carried out from the Delhi airport,' said Delhi's Social Welfare Minister Rajkumar Chauhan.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Three labourers were killed and two others injured Friday when they were trapped during excavation works at the under construction terminal - T3 of Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, the police said. Pushpender, Jatinder and Ravinder died while Umesh and Pran Singh suffered injuries when they fell into a drain near the construction site around 9.30 a.m.