Quicktakes

Flights delayed
New Delhi: Despite the Government invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act ESMA against the air traffic controllers'ATCs strike, the domestic flights schedule remained hit with about 70 flights being delayedin major airports across the country especially in Mumbai and Delhi. Civil Aviation Minister Ananth Kumar today held meetings with top officials.

AIIMS strike
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today asked the Centre to take all possible measures under law to end the 10-day old strike by the doctors at AIIMS and place before it by February 22 what steps it had initiated in this regard. The striking doctors today took to the streets with no solution to the impasse in sight even after ten days.

Operation flood
Chennai: India has surpassed US to become the largest producer of milk in the world, Union Agriculture Minister Sompal said here today. 8220;We have now become the largest milk producer in the world by producing 18 million tonnes of milk ,8221; Sompal said .

Litterateur quits
Mumbai: The ongoing tussle between Sena supremo Bal Thackeray and Marathi litterateurs today claimed yet another victim with Arjun Dangle resigning as the member of Marathi SahityaSanskriti Mandal here today.