Sonia Gandhi on Friday created history on being re-elected Congress president for a record fourth term after remaining in the top post for 12 long years. She is the fifth member of the Gandhi-Nehru family to lead the party once again. She vowed to keep the party flag always flying high.

India and South Korea on Friday entered into a five-year defence cooperation accord by signing two MoUs on sharing of military expertise and technology.
Defence minister A.K. Antony and his Korean counterpart Kim Tae-Young signed the two agreements in Seoul during the former’s two-day official visit there.

Delhi University students on Friday cast their votes to elect a new union in a poll which will decide the fate of 41 candidates.
A dismal 35 per cent of the students turned out to vote to elect their new union, following an election campaign that was watered down and without much fervour.

Is there now a simian threat to the Games Village, which is already dealing threats like dengue and rodents, besides incomplete work?
Following a visit to the Village in connection with spraying work going on to contain dengue, MCD’s health committee chairman V.K. Monga said on Friday that he spotted m

With less than a month left for the Commonwealth Games, the Delhi police has made elaborate plans to ensure a smooth flow traffic in the city during the mega-event.
“All road users should avoid getting into the dedicated lane meant for athletes and if inadvertently they enter the lane, they should come out of it or else face a fine of `

Amid concerns over rising dengue cases ahead of the Commonwealth Games, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad held a meeting with the Delhi health minister Kiran Walia to chalk out the strategy for containing the spread of the disease. It was decided to launch a massive cleaning drive in Delhi, involving all the civic agencies concerned, to ensure that dengue was contained.

A 71-year-old man allegedly committed suicide at his south west Delhi residence apparently after being depressed over his deteriorating health conditions, the police said on Friday.

Gurgaon Metro covered its final stretch from Central Secretariat to Qutub Minar and brought the millennium city closer to north and central Delhi by cutting the travel time to 50 minutes from two hours by road. The 12.53-km fully underground corridor that passes through some of the densely-populated areas of south Delhi, which have been deprived of the Metro comfort till now, was integrated with the already operational Qutub Minar-HUDA City Centre line.

The Gandhi clan is first and foremost, when it comes to the Congress, more so when some one from the family is getting re-elected to lead the party, that too for a record fourth time. For the sake of the Gandhi family, anybody and everybody in the party will make any sacrifice. And altering one’s schedule is a minor favour that the party can expect from the die-hard loyalists of the family.

It was festivity all around at the AICC headquarters here on Friday, with party enthusiasts dancing to drumbeats and bursting firecrackers to make the formal announcement of Sonia Gandhi’s election to the post of Congress president memorable.