Bhavye Suneja, the pilot of Indonesian Lion Air Boeing passenger plane which crashed on Monday with 189 people onboard, was a student of Ahlcon Public School in Delhi till 2005.


Delhi man was piloting crashed Indonesian plane


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The government on Monday proposed doing away with manual filing of application forms seeking exemption of tax on incomes received by a person on behalf of any other fund, university, educational institution, hospital, trust or any other institution.


Manual forms for income tax exemptions to be made electronic


Just two days away from inauguration, the new Pink Line section's Karkardooma station, at a height of 21 metres above the ground, will be the second highest Metro station on the entire network.


Metro Pink Line: Karkardooma station to be 2nd highest from ground level


A woman died here due to swine flu, while another was still under observation, a health official said on Monday.


Swine flu kills 1 in Meghalaya


Recreating a Roman bread which was popular in the city of Pompeii almost 2,000 years ago, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group's Spencer's Retail on Monday introduced the new product in the city.


Spencer's offers bread made from 2,000-year-old Roman recipe


Australia tolerates a "culture of impunity" in the face of wage payments to foreign temporary workers, who tend not to complain about such abuses for fear of losing their visas, according to a study published on Monday.


Report denounces 'impunity' in abuses of foreigners' wages in Australia


For over a year now, 10-year-old Sandeep Kumar has been selling toys and goodies inside the Delhi Metro. While this might seem like a harmless act by a boy who needs money, it could well snowball into something the authorities might find hard to control.


This 10-year-old hawks toys - inside the Delhi Metro!


It was barely three months ago that a US-returned medico started a small cafe in upscale Juhu as a unique venture -- employing mostly those who suffer from various developmental disabilities. Now, Cafe Arpan has gained huge popularity -- among patrons, many of whom have become regulars, and among the 19 specially-abled staffers who love to slog 30 hours over six days a week to make this trendsetter eatery a super success.


Unique Mumbai cafe helps staffers overcome disabilities (IANS Special Series)


Indo-Canadian expatriates have donated more than $7 million dollars to a Toronto-based non-profit organisation which builds and runs education hostels in rural India.


Indo-Canadians pledge $7mn to build hostels for poor children in India


A health alert has been sounded in Meghalaya after two women tested positive for swine flu here, officials said on Saturday.


2 women test positive for swine flu in Meghalaya


Hormones could be the reason why cannabis affects women differently than men, brain studies on animals and humans suggest.


Why cannabis affects women differently


Pink Line's Trilokpuri Sanjay Lake-Shiv Vihar Metro section will be opened for public on October 31, the Delhi Metro said on Friday.


Pink Line's Trilokpuri - Shiv Vihar section to open on Oct 31


Amid a rock music battle, demonstrations and walks through a traditional herb-based northeastern cuisine mark the onset of a three-day cultural fiesta that kicked off at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) here on Friday.


A walk through northeastern food, culture at Delhi's IGNCA


Guilty about your late night snacking habit that leads to weight gain? Switching to a protein-filled snack like cottage cheese can help you to have a positive effect on muscle quality, metabolism and overall health, say researchers.


Cottage cheese as late night snack can boost health


In a slim picture-book targeted at young-adult readers, and dedicated to "all the rationality left in the world", Scholastics "Puu", tackles the issue of manual scavenging and the stigma associated with it, telling more in its few pages than what similar volumes have done in their lengthy avatars.


New book on manual scavenging enlightens young-adults


The Philippine resort island of Boracay officials reopened its doors to international tourists on Friday, after six months of intensive rehabilitation to recover from the excesses of mass tourism.


Philippine island officially reopens after clean-up


Kerala-based 4Tunes Factory has been given a special recogntion award by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for enabling women and girls to develop skills.


India's 4Tune Factory gets UN award for women in business


A team of 80 Central Industrial Security Force personnel embarked on a Himalayan expedition on bicycles from here, officials said on Thursday.


CISF team begins cycle rally on Himalayan ecology


The Delhi Transport Department on Thursday launched an online service to secure DTC bus passes which will save the commuters from the hassle of standing in long queues.


You can now apply online for DTC bus passes


With influences from the Dutch, Portugal, English and South Indian cuisines, food from the beautiful Island country of Sri Lanka is hard to resist with its liberal use of spices.


Delectable Sri Lankan food on offer in Gurugram (Foodie Trail - Gurugram)


Those usually neglected in urban life -- society's 'last persons' -- find visual expression at a sculptural exhibition here by sculptor Suraj Kumar, whose striking red resin sculptures on florists, book sellers, traditional artists, fruit vendors, and roadside peddlers, are on view from Thursday.

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