President Patil flies in a fighter jet (Roundup)

PUNE - President Pratibha Patil, who wore an olive green G-suit instead of her trademark sari Wednesday and flew in a fighter jet, the Sukhoi Su-30 of the Indian Air Force (IAF), called her experience wonderful and unique.

Decision on women fighter pilots will be considered: President

PUNE - A decision to induct women into the fighter stream will be taken after due consideration, President Pratibha Patil said after completing her sortie in the Indian Air Force (IAF) war jet Sukhoi Su-30 MKI Wednesday.

It was an honour flying the president in a Sukhoi: Pilot

PUNE - Flying President Pratibha Patil in a Sukhoi-30MKI was an honour and a pleasure, Wing Commander S. Sajan said Wednesday.

President Patil elated with flight in fighter jet (Third Lead)

PUNE - President Pratibha Patil, who made history Wednesday by becoming the world’s first woman president to fly in a fighter jet, descended from an Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi-30 MKI in a G-suit instead of her trademark sari.

Patil creates history, becomes first female president to fly in a fighter jet

PUNE - President Pratibha Devisingh Patil created history on Wednesday by becoming the first serving female head of state to fly in an Indian Air Force Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft from the Lohegaon Air Force Base here. What was even more remarkable was the fact that she achieved the feat at the ripe age of 74.

President Patil completes historic Sukhoi sortie (Second Lead)

PUNE - President Pratibha Patil, who made history Wednesday by becoming the first woman president to fly in a fighter jet, alighted from an Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi-30 MKI in a G-suit after successfully completing her 30-minute sortie.

President Patil makes history by flying in a Sukhoi

PUNE - President Pratibha Patil created history by becoming the first woman president to fly in a fighter jet, the Sukhoi-30MKI of the Indian Air Force (IAF), here Wednesday morning.

Pratibha Patil first woman president to fly fighter jet

PUNE - President Pratibha Patil, 74, Wednesday became the first woman president in the world to fly in an Indian Air Force fighter jet Sukhoi-30 MKI.

President Pratibha Patil to fly IAF’s fighter jet

PUNE - President Pratibha Devisingh Patil is all set to enter the record books by flying Sukhoi-30 on Wednesday from Pune Airbase, an attempt which is likely to register her name in Guinness Book of World Records.

Car designer Dilip Chhabria designs ‘Hot Nano’ for youngsters

PUNE - Car designer Dilip Chhabria has revolutionised the automobile market by redesigning the cheapest car in the world, Nano, manufactured by Tata Motors.

Pune women spearhead the anti-liquor movement

PUNE - The polling phase doesn’t seem to die away from the Pait and Parunde villages here. The villagers will cast their votes on November 22 to choose whether liquor shops should be banned in the area.

Police to probe Headley’s visit to Pune

PUNE - Maharashtra police on Tuesday confirmed the visit of U S terror suspect David Headley to Osho International Community and said that it plans further investigation into the matter.

Police claim Headley visited Pune’s Osho Ashram

PUNE - U S terror suspect David Headley visited the ‘Osho Ashram’ here twice during 2008 and 2009, a top police official said on Tuesday.

We never advised BJP to choose a leader from outside Delhi: RSS chief

PUNE - The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Saturday denied it had suggested that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) next chief should be “from outside Delhi”.

Bhagwat now calls BJP ‘a divided house’

PUNE - Continuing his sharp critique of the current stasis in the BJP, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has described the party “as a divided house.”

Train derails near Pune, five injured

PUNE - Eight coaches of the Mysore-Ajmer Express were derailed near Pune Wednesday evening, injuring at least five passengers, a railway official said.

Pune exhibition of chronicles of emperors

PUNE - Memoirs of the medieval era emperors were recently displayed at an exhibition in Pune.

The two-day exhibition, organized by the Indian Historical Amendment Committee, displayed centuries old coins, hand-written letters and arms and ammunitions belonging to the rulers of the medieval age.

51,000 lamps lit on Dev Deepvali in Pune

PUNE - People in Pune lit 51, 000 earthen lamps on the occasion of Tripurari Poornima, the full moon day of the Kartik month as per Hindu almanac on Monday.

Devotees jump on bed of thorns to please Lord Shiva

PUNE - Scores of devotees jumped onto heaps of thorns to appease Lord Shiva to celebrate the annual ‘thorns festival’ at a Pune temple.

Jammu prison inmates make candles for Diwali

JAMMU/PUNE - Inmates of the Amphala district jail in Jammu are busy these days in making candles and wax lamps for the festival of lights ‘Diwali’.

Political leaders cast their vote in Haryana, Maharashtra

Rohtak (Haryana)/PUNE - Prominent leaders came out to cast their votes for the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana on Tuesday.

Pune voters have high expectations

PUNE - As Maharashtra goes to poll on October 13, expectations of voters in Pune were high from who would represent them.

Shiv Sena candidate shot at in Pune

PUNE - Unidentified gunmen attempted to assassinate Shiv Sena candidate Ajay Bhosle on Sunday morning.