Seattle/New York - US airplane manufacturer Boeing again postponed the test flight of its new flagbearer, the 787 Dreamliner, the financial news television channel CNBC reported Tuesday, although Boeing said such a decision had not been made.
After an almost-two-month-long machinists' strike that just ended, the test flight of this long-haul plane will not take place before the end of the year, as Boeing had planned, according to the report.
A Boeing spokesman stressed, however, that there had been no such decision.
Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, the Detroit-based generic subsidiary of Sun Pharmaceuticals Ltd., has been issued a letter of warning by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and all its future marketing approvals for medicines have been withheld due to some quality-control issues.
Akhilesh Prasad Singh, Union Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal MP, allegedly assaulted the station manager of Kingfisher Airlines at Patna Airport on Monday. The incident took place when he was not allowed to board Patna-Kolkata flight, as he reported late at the airport.
Chicago - Lines had formed by midday outside Chicago's Grant Park, where up to a million people are expected to gather to witness Illinois Senator Barack Obama's post-election rally late Tuesday.
New York - The United Nations Security Council is likely to meet over the possibility of having a larger peacekeeping force in Democratic Republic of Congo at the end of November despite the current tense situation in the country.
Washington - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday he has regained momentum and expressed confidence that he would overtake Democrat Barack Obama when all the ballots are counted.
