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Malaysia looks into terror angle
* Missing plane: US sends FBI team to assist in probe
* Rescuers locate a ‘floating door’
Kuala Lumpur/Beijing, March 9
Vietnamese authorities on Sunday said they had spotted what looked like one of the doors of the missing Boeing 777 jetliner that crashed into the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam on Saturday.

Distraught relatives of missing passengers aboard Malaysian airlines on Sunday. AFP

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World page: Anxious wait for kin of Indians on missing Malaysian plane

Joshi falls in line over Modi seat
New Delhi, March 9
Murli Manohar Joshi, the man in the eye of an apparent storm within the BJP, has denied any rift in the party leadership over the Varanasi seat. The veteran leader said he was a disciplined soldier of the party and would accept the March 13 decision of the parliamentary board on the prestigious constituency in the Hindu heartland.

Nation page
UP debates Modi’s candidature
Bachi Singh Rawat resigns from BJP posts in U’khand

Akhilesh Yadav sacks his two ministers
Lucknow, March 9
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today dropped two ministers for alleged anti-party activities. Those sacked were Cabinet Minister for Agriculture Anand Singh and Minister of State for Stamp and Registration Manoj Paras.

MNS to take on Sena, support Modi
Mumbai, March 9
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has decided to target the Shiv Sena while going soft on the BJP in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Of the seven candidates Thackeray announced on the eighth foundation day of the MNS today, six would contest seats where the Shiv Sena will field candidates as part of its coalition with the BJP.

City LS SEAT
Savita Bhatti opts out, deals blow to AAP
Sends email to party high command, cites ego problems, differences among workers as reasons
Chandigarh, March 9
In a major setback to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), its candidate for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat Savita Bhatti has opted out of the elections.
(Details on Chandigarh Tribune)

Rolls Royce offers to return Rs 18 crore it gave to agents
New Delhi, March 9
Under fire over an alleged bribery scandal, British firm Rolls Royce has written to the state-owned HAL that it was ready to return Rs 18 crore paid by it to its commission agents to the government.

US group preserves fading memories of India-Pak Partition Washington, March 9 Thousands of people from across the world have rallied to collect the moving stories of one of the greatest migrations after South Asia's 1947 Partition and the birth of two nations — India and Pakistan. (Details on World page)