Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is all set to be re-elected as the party president for a fourth time consecutively when the election for this post will be held on July 25 next month.

The rift between BJP and JD(U) might have been resolved but one leader who was conspicuous by his absence during the series of meeting the party convened to resolve the Bihar crisis was senior party leader Ananth Kumar.

The body of former Union minister Digvijay Singh, who died two days ago at a hospital in London, was on Saturday taken to his hometown in Bihar for cremation.
Singh, the sitting Lok Sabha member, breathed his last at St Thomas Hospital where he was being treated for heart ailment on June 24. He suffered a brain haemorrhage while in the hospital. The body was taken to Gidhaur on the Poorva Express. The cremation will be held on Monday in Gidhaur.

With the DMK given only three Cabinet berths following its strength of 19 MPs, Mr T.R. Baalu could not be accommodated and Mr M.K. Alagiri, the Tamil Nadu chief minister’s son, was preferred. However, even if Mr A. Raja is withdrawn, the DMK chief is not in the mood right now to recall his son, Mr Alagiri, known for long absences from both his ministry and Parliament.

After the thaw in the JD(U) and the BJP relations in Bihar, the next hurdle for the two parties is all set to be seat-sharing arrangement. Though the JD(U) has indicated that it would go by the 2005 arrangement, the party will seek “swap” of Assembly constituencies by gauging strength of the two parties in light of the delimitation exercise.

A man and his 10-year-old daughter were killed while three other family members were injured when a speeding container truck crashed into a residence in the Tughlaqabad area of south Delhi on Friday night.

A Delhi court on Saturday allowed the plea of the Delhi police to interrogate for five days the three persons accused in a case of honour killing.
Before formally moving an application in the court seeking the custodial interrogation for 10 days to unravel the entire conspiracy, the police quizzed the accused — Mandeep Nagar (23), Ankit Chaudhury (22) and Nakul Khari (21) — inside the court premises for half-an-hour.

A home ministry official was allegedly robbed of cash and jewellery by three unidentified bikers in the Dilshad Garden area of west Delhi on Friday morning.
The police officials said the victim, identified as Arun Aggarwal, who works as personal secretary of a joint secretary in the home ministry, was on his way to New Delhi r

Two days after three suspects were arrested in Ashok Vihar “honour” killing case, a couple belonging to different communities has gone missing from the area with their parents charging each other with abduction and murder of the victims.

With less than 100 days to go for the Commonwealth Games 2010, the status of nodal hospitals that were supposed to be readied for medical emergencies during the Games seems far from satisfactory.