Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and United Progressive Alliance chairperson and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi on Thursday, party leaders said.
A senior Congress leader told IANS: "Rahulji and Soniaji will attend the ceremony."
Manmohan Singh will also attend the ceremony, the party leader said, adding that senior party leader Anand Sharma will also be present.
The top court refused to interfere with an order restraining a woman from feeding birds from her balcony flat in a high rise building in Mumbai.
India and Pakistan on Tuesday held a meeting of technical experts to discuss issues related to the Kartarpur corridor, including its alignment, coordinates, and other engineering aspects of the proposed crossing points, sources said.
The central probe agency issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to attach 13 properties, worth Rs 1.22 crore, in the state.
Terming the killing of Sikhs during the 1984 riots as a “crime against humanity”, the CBI has likened it with mass extermination of Jews by Nazis, mass killing of Bangladeshis by Pakistan Army and killing of Armenians by Kurds and Turks.
ASI Gurbaksh Singh, who was posted in PAP and residing in Rama Mandi here, on Tuesday shot his wife and then himself with his service revolver.
Commenting on Modi's 'chowkidar' boast, Gandhi, in her address to supporters from her specially-prepared vessel, said while holding a hand-held microphone: "A watchman is meant for the rich and not for farmers."