Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted 'Namaste' in welcome as German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived here on Sunday night on a three-day visit.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has high stakes in the Bihar polls, has initiated its "Chalo Bihar Abhiyan" in Punjab. It is urging people from Bihar living in Punjab, who are voters in their home state, to vote in Bihar.
The former Allahabad High Court judge strongly condemned the killing of the man in Dadri and demanded severe punishment to those involved in it.
The 45-minute programme was attended by, among others, Sachin Tendulkar, Rajnikanth, Mukesh and Nita Ambani, besides the Bachchan family.
This year, the festival, which kicked-off mid-September and will continue throughout October, is being celebrated by several pubs and micro-breweries in the Delhi/NCR region.
There is a need for a new philosophy based on committed social action and a mass spiritual transformation accompanied by an intellectual process of a paradigm shift. We have to return to our moorings.