The Madras High Court underlining the importance of open spaces in Indian cities on Friday, passed an order that the character of an open space reservation (OSR) land is only to serve a public purpose, and it cannot be changed and made use of for some other purpose. The ruling came against the Chennai Corporation which tried to reclaim 700 grounds of OSR land in the city.

The perfect time to spray is now at the locusts in the state's north-west as they are now at the third instar stage.

Ian Arney is from the Millewa and is a broadacre farmer.

According to Arney the whole area of affected by locusts as there are big beds of locusts on his property.

He said that the Millewa Line Road is a huge harbor for locusts and is a big egg bed of locusts.

Hashim Abdul Halim, the assembly speaker is feeling much better now after he was admitted to a private hospital following shortness of breath. It was caused due to serious heart related problems and he was kept in the coronary care unit and was on the ventilator all the time.

Supposedly, Ravi Poojari, the gangster had called up a manager of a private firm and asked an extortion amount of five crores of rupees.

On Sunday the police had registered a case based on the complaints filed by Mr. Kiran Henry Pinto the mentioned manager aged thirty five. It was reported that Pinto received the extortion call on Saturday around four thirty pm.

The Employees Provident Fund Organization or EPFO will very soon free two thousand seven hundred exempted trusts to use their reserves for paying out the statutory rate.

This move will be taken by the body to give benefits to the trusts. Samirendra Chatterjee, the Central Provident Fund Commissioner (CPFO) gave these facts.

Mumbai Airport could avert a major accident when a wing of a Jet Airways plane thrashed the tail of a Kingfisher carrier. The incident took place on Saturday at five minutes past two am in the morning.

However there were no passengers in the Kingfisher plane but the Jet Airways was carrying one hundred and twenty two passengers in its tummy. Thank God no injuries had been reported so far.

Ten projects in the capital city is being closely inspected by the Central Vigilance Commission or CVC. These ten projects were part of the many projects that were executed in a rush to be completed and ready for use before the Commonwealth Games that Delhi hosted recently.