Indian President Pratibha Patil today became the world's first woman head of state to fly in a warplane, taking off in a frontline Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet from the Lohegaon Air Force base Pune. The feat also made the 74-year-old Patil the world's oldest woman to fly in a combat jet.

IAF might be all set to fly President Pratibha Devisingh Patil in a Sukhoi-30MKI 'air dominance' fighter on November 25.

Some of the rare letters, postcards and articles signed and autographed by Mahatma Gandhi, will be formally presented to President Pratibha Patil when she arrives here next week on a three-day state visit.

Gujarat assembly on Tuesday passed the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (GUJCOC) bill, rejecting suggestions by President Pratibha Patil to modify it.