There is growing clamour within the Congress to have party vice president Rahul Gandhi assume the position of leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, a former minister said Friday.
The first session of the 16th Lok Sabha will commence June 4 and conclude June 11, according to an official release.
The Indian embassy in Kiev Friday advised Indians, especially students, to leave Ukraine's Donetsk and Lugansk regions in view of the deteriorating security situation.
A sudden squall Friday evening took Delhi residents by surprise disrupting road, rail and air traffic as well as Metro services and led to nine deaths. The dust storm accompanied by heavy showers led to a drop in the soaring temperature but not before it left in its wake broken tree branches, overturned cars, traffic jams and power outages.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, daughter of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, has written a letter to Special Protection Group (SPG) chief, asking for the withdrawal of privileges at airports for her and her family.
An iron manhole cover bearing the master plan of Chandigarh by its founder-architect Le Corbusier was sold as "junk" for a paltry Rs.100 ($1.70) by the authorities here. It fetched a whopping $21,000 (Rs.830,000) at a Christie's auction in New York in 2007.