India and France on Monday signed 14 pacts to bolster ties and concluded an inter-government agreement for the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft by New Delhi but with financial issues yet to be resolved.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday urged Indians to shun "violence, intolerance and unreason" and said that decision making must be based on cooperation and consensus-building.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal was advised rest by doctors and kept under observation at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here.
Amit Shah, a close confidant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was on Sunday elected the BJP president for a full three-year term, retaining the post he has held since the party took power in the country in 2014.
Security around the Hotel Taj, where the French president will stay during his five-hour stop in the city, was at its maximum with scores of armed commandos and policemen swarming the place.
The silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on key issues of communal tension and violence is baffling for a leader who is hailed as a great communicator, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Saturday.