WASHINGTON/LONDON - A series of suspicious packages were being investigated on cargo flights at airports in the US and Britain Friday.

WASHINGTON/LONDON - Authorities have discovered a suspicious package on a UPS cargo flight from Yemen to Chicago as the plane was on a stopover in London, US broadcaster CNN reported Friday.

MUMBAI - Reacting to the allegations surrounding the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Friday said that he did not abuse his position to help his relatives get flats in the society, and added that he welcomes any sort of a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the scam.

NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Devisingh Patil on Friday underlining the need for using latest technology for development said that there is a need to look at methods of doing things in new and innovative ways.

NEW DELHI - Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate and address the second Conference of Financial Commissioners and Finance Secretaries of State Governments and Union Territories here on November 1.