IAF plane crashes in Delhi; 21 dead
Minutes before touching down on the tarmac at the IGI Airport, an Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft crashed into a water reservoir at Pappankalan yesterday killing 21 persons and injuring seven.

N-theft charge wily US design: China
China has dismissed as ``extremely irresponsible and unfounded'' a US report alleging that Beijing had used advanced nuclear information stolen from the United States to build and test nuclear bombs.

Freighter's black box damaged in fire
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has initiated a probe into the cause of the accident involving an Air France freighter, which was gutted after crash-landing at Chennai airport late on Friday night.

  Quicktakes
  Women on display
  Defenceless jhuggi dwellers face IAF brunt
  After missing the bus, Advani makes up at the checkpost
  Clinton acted on N-theft report
  PM lays foundation for Bihar projects that may never take off
  When safety went out of sight
  Jainism got two lakh converts in 6 yrs, quietly
  SGPC to celebrate its own Khalsa fest
  NCW campaign to counter gender bias
  ISI proxy war comes a full circle
  World vignettes
  Coin drops on Maharashtra's history to reveal woman's rule
  Not yet her day, in Bangla
  French ex-ministers await verdict in AIDS blood trial
  Thane trader shot dead, two stabbed
  Tanker mafia violates HC order
  Mumbai-based Dawood man nabbed in Hyderabad
  Nand Lal orders demolition of Shivam complex, among others
  Naik gangster slain in encounter
  Mental health figures on school principals' agenda
  Mumbai Notes
  Thane district gets new Collector
  Commercial tenants to pay more
  BMC demolition squad to work on holidays too
  Thane hotel fire
  Junk of a suburb
  Indoor pollution most potent health hazard
  Travel agent booked for fraud
  Demand for filling up of vacant posts of
  Kajheri residents stage demonstration
  Three injured in separate road accidents
  Two Hundred fifty vaccinated against Hepatitis
  Chahal served notice
  Amend law for upping conviction rate
  Apollo hospital sets liaison office
  Datesheet changed
  Scheme to protect the property of Army personnel
  Probe on in `dropsy' cases
  Jogi defends Cong stand on Bihar
  TIET students begin strike today
  Suraksha samiti to participate in kar sewa
  Haryana has no right over Punjab rivers
  Kharar cries for a permanent SDM
  Dewatering of flooded areas to start today
  Mid-day meal scheme may be discontinued
  Mushaira marks Sahir's birth anniversary
  Tension in Abohar over encroachment bid
  Cool babes brave the chill to select Sanhati the beauty queen
  Tenders worth several lakhs cancelled
  Sansad decries govt meddling in Takht affairs
  Widower waging a lonely battle...
  Shaheed Udham Singh
  Pasco penalised for supplying defective car
  Have a heart .. save it!
  Consumer forum quashes CHB plea quashed
  Boycott threat by teachers shadows college exams
  Head line for three columnp
  Himachal Housing Board to set up land bank
  Regional beat -- Chandigarh
  Wild ass being robbed of its run of the Little Rann
  I could not see a thing through the thick black clouds
  Vadodara beat
  ATC gave clearance at 8.12 a.m, 5 minutes later plane disappeared
  We have still not broken the news to his mother and sister
  It's a picnic for callous Delhi
  Varsity show cases beauty and brawn
  GHB bait for defaulters
  Parcel bomb kills two Congress men
  Tradition of music comes back to city
  Crime Watch -- Vadodara
  Daman official arrested
  GEDA bags award for awareness
  Kerala Ayurveda camp today
  Fake notes racket king pin flees Surat
  ADA performing well in Jammu & Kashmir
  Arjun's visit may pep up Gujarat Congress
  Women's day celebrations begin today
  Texturisers' assn agitation
  WTA impedes in making heart surgery equipment
  ONGC donation for health centre
  Three cases of torture registered
  Vaghela call to professionals
  Surat beat
  A case for books
  Pakistani citizen arrested
  Crime briefs -- Surat
  Perfect mix of fun and education
  IIID to hold conference of interior designers
  Minister warns of action against officials
  MoU signed for computer community college
  Man held for burning child
  Young war widows' mission accomplished
  Automeet '99 on March 10 in Chennai
  Red Tigers Chief among four shot dead
  Illegal hawkers removed from Koyambedu
  Baloon safari fails
  Rs 4-lakh worth jewellery burgled