Claiming that at the core of the party’s politics in the country is that of unity in the society and not of dividing it, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said a strong Congress has always been a pre-requite for strong India.

A one-day meeting of the AICC members on Tuesday authorised Congress president Sonia Gandhi to constitute the all-powerful Congress Working Committee and the central election committee.

The Congress on Tuesday went full blast in attacking the RSS and its sister organisations, accusing them of being involved in terrorism and held that the Allahabad high court verdict does not condone the demolition of Babri Masjid but skirted the Adarsh Housing scam.

The Asian Institute of Medical Sciences, a super-specially hospital and cancer centre, organised a free breast cancer check up camp to spread the awareness about cancer.

The Delhi Cabinet in its meeting on Monday approved a proposal to handover maintenance of two observation homes for mentally challenged inmates to NGOs, while laying down quality standards to ensure proper upkeep of the inmates.

Even as the menace of dengue is yet to show sings of being on the wane for this season, the cases of chikungunya have increased in the city manifold. However, while the official numbers do not reflect this, the MCD is conceding that many hospitals are not reporting the cases to the corporation. The dengue cases in the city have, meanwhile, reached 5,553.

After hearing a complaint filed against two hotels being run illegally in the Karol Bagh area, Tis Hazari Court chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav took a serious view of the “sordid affair” and favoured an inquiry by the Delhi police commissioner into the alleged illegal running of hotels in connivance with the local police officers. The CMM sought a report within one week.

In a bizarre incident, unidentified burglars set a local cooperative bank afire after apparently failing to get hold of the cash kept in its lockers at Alipur in outer Delhi in the early hours of Monday. The burglars entered the bank by creating a hole through roof and also used a ladder to get down. The police is investigating the case from all possible angles.

The Delhi Cabinet on Monday approved cluster bus service to be run by corporate entities. The Cabinet gave its approval for four clusters, which in all will bring about 700 buses in the city in a move to mitigate the shortfall due to the phaseout of Blueline buses from the city.

After observing that the life of pedestrians in the city is more important than the issue of livelihood of Blueline bus operators, a division bench comprising Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Valmiki J. Mehta of the Delhi high court on Monday declined to restrain a government notification to phaseout the Blueline buses.