Maahi brought out dead, demand to punish the negligent grows
Manesar/Gurgaon, June 24
Four-year-old Maahi, who fell into a borewell four days ago, today became the first victim of Haryana's reckless growth of a city that prides itself on its various modern-day monikers of being a hub of automobile, garment, IT and BPO sectors.

From left: Wailing mother of Maahi. Army, administrative and health officials during the rescue operations at Khoh village near Manesar in Gurgaon district. Tribune photos: Sayeed Ahmed

AI pilots go on hunger strike
New Delhi, June 24
The agitating Air India pilots sat on indefinite hunger strike today to put pressure on the authorities concerned to accept their demands for reinstalling their 101 sacked colleagues and recognition of the Indian Pilots Guild as a trade union.

Delhi, Mumbai to get missile defence shield
New Delhi, June 24
Delhi and Mumbai, the two most vital metros of India, have been chosen for DRDO's Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system that can be put in place at short notice. The detailed proposal is being prepared for final clearance from the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS).

Special to the tribune
From Rio to Rio, the world hasn’t taken a stride
A lot of high-flown rhetoric ushered in last week's UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Rio+20 was the biggest summit the UN had ever organised. Some 40,000 environmentalists and 10,000 government officials gathered with politicians from 190 nations for a meeting which the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said was "too important to fail".

Protesters at the Rio summit. — Reuters

Special to the tribune US paying price of backing Islamic militants: Pak Prof The role of the US in “fanning Islamic militancy” has been highlighted by a visiting Pakistani professor who was the star performer at a seminar sponsored by The Democracy Forum in London. Nuclear physicist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy, from Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad, was a keynote speaker at the seminar entitled ‘The role of education in combating terrorism’.