A routine trip to the washroom turned into a mid-air crisis after the pilot of an Air India flight got locked out of the cockpit, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

Madhya Pradesh Congress has "adopted" the 10-year-old newspaper hawker who gave a newspaper for free to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, because he had no change.
With Madhya Pradesh slated to gofor Assembly elections later this year, union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia appears to be the front-runner for the post of chief minister, if Congress emerges victorious.
A Naxalite who was arrested last year, escaped from the custody of police in Singrauli, 780 km east of Bhopal, on Thursday. HT reports.
For the minorities in Pakistan, life outside prison is just one degree less suffocating than that behind bars, as evidenced by the accounts of refugees, around 6,000, living in Indore. Saeed Khan reports.
Hurt by the police’s demand for ‘credible proof of rape’, a woman chose to end her life. Before committing suicide she reportedly told her sister that the only proof she could provide was her own death. She was allegedly raped by her brother.
A group of tribal youth of Madhya Pradesh has come up with a new age platform called Facebook Panchayat to address age-old problems of the tribals of the state. Ritesh Mishra reports.

In a move that goes against all economic logic and also breaks quite a few laws, faced with the shortage of
Rs. 5 coins, shopkeepers in Bhopal have introduced a parallel currency - which they are willing to trade with.
Ashutosh Shukla reports.
The practice of treating Dalits as untouchables in the execution of Madhya Pradesh's mid-day meal scheme has been admitted to in a state government report. Sravani Sarkar reports.
BJP vice president Uma Bharti today said she was confident of her party's victory in the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections.
A mob killed a bear after it attacked a man near Gol village, 12 kms from Bhopal during an ongoing rescue operation of the animal on Thursday. HT reports.
A 55-year-old man died of Swine Flu in Indore today raising the death doll due to disease in Indore to 17, since January 2013, health officials said.
Harassed by a moneylender, a farmer committed suicide in Damoh, more than 250km north-east of Bhopal. The victim, Raju Patel (45), took poison substance on Monday. He was admitted to the district hospital in a critical condition where he died yesterday.
Six police personnel, including two police inspectors of the anti-corruption department of Amravati circle were killed when a vehicle in which they were travelling in overturned near Kamargaon, in Washim district in west Vidarbha, some 200 km from Bhopal.
Riding on the wave of concern about the tiger's future, four young professionals kicked off a motorcycle tour of six tiger reserves on Tuesday. Their aim is to spread awareness about the need to save the big cat from extinction and prevent environmental degradation.