The BJP's rediscovery of its allies, including the PM touching the feet of Parakash Singh Badal, would be interpreted as the party's efforts to keep its flock together if it falls short of the majority mark on May 23.
Dr Kalam continues to live in the imagination of the people of this nation and remains a role model for the youth and missile and space scientists who are diligently following his vision to achieve new laurels for India, notes S M Khan, who served as President Kalam's press secretary.
Pakistan has once again raised the Kashmir issue at the UNSC, seeking mediation from the world body and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to resolve the issue.
Panic was triggered at the Sai Baba Temple in South Delhi on Thursday evening after police received an anonymous telephone call threatening to blow up the shrine, but it later turned out to be hoax.A temple administration official said that they came to know about the threat call after police teams reached the spot and started carrying out searches. The temple, which is very popular among the denizens, was immediately evacuated.
"The political stars never quite aligned but a solution similar to the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement, with a soft border allowing locals to travel freely from one part of Kashmir to the other, will have to be the outcome of any peaceful solution," he noted.
The minimum temperature settled at 2.6 degree Celsius at the Safdarjung observatory, four notches below the season's average, and humidity was 100 per cent. The visibility recorded by the Safdarjung and Palam observatories stood at zero metres at 8.30 am. It was recorded at 100 metres at Safdarjung and zero at Palam at 5.30 am.
In a major breakthrough, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday arrested Jeevan Raut, the brother of kidney transplant racket kingpin Amit Kumar, from Delhi.
India's top diplomat at the United Nations on Tuesday said that countries should negotiate on the text on the table and give their national positions on the issue.
His last rites were performed by his daughter Leela Gandhi.
The report reads like a 'harangue on Pakistan, misrepresenting our position in sharp contrast to unquestioning endorsement of Indian stand point.'
The Delhi high court has turned down the plea of a freedom fighter's widow to retain the government accommodation, originally alloted to her husband, for life time.
"People in his birth place, Mangalore, and also those in Bengaluru have been requesting to bury part of his remains in the two cities."
The ULFA had demanded the release of two of its leaders Mrinal Hazarika and Pallab Saikia in exchange of release of the FCI Northeast boss.
The weatherman has predicted rainfall throughout the day with the mercury settling at 19C.
The Safdarjung and Lodhi Road observatories recorded one millimetre and 0.7 mm of rainfall respectively.
The cremation will take place at Lodhi Road crematorium at 2.30 pm on Thursday.
Under the UN Security Council procedure, a candidate can be introduced anytime before it makes the final selection.
Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh Friday appeared before the Delhi police in connection with investigations into his phone tapping allegations.
In Meher Chand Market, close to Lodhi Road in south Delhi, within a span of 40 minutes, the surveyor saw 19 people, including 18 men and a woman, who spat on the road.
The Delhi Police has asked commuters to avoid Rajpath and its connecting roads on Friday morning as nearly 30,000 people are expected to throng the Red Fort on the occasion of International Day of Yoga, traffic officials said.
The Congress, which criticised the amendment, walked out of Rajya Sabha saying it is dissatisfied with the home minister's reply on the amendment to the SPG Act.
Indians celebrated the second International Day of Yoga on Tuesday at different parts of the country.
Police was interrogating him to find out if he has any links with the serial blasts in Srinagar and Mumbai and to find which terrorist outfit he belonged to, he said.
The 93-year-old retired Indian Civil Services officer and founder of Common Cause is survived by two sons and a daughter.
What makes Indian abstract art more valuable is its relative rarity. V S Gaitonde, S H Raza and J Swaminathan are the only major names in modern Indian art known for their abstracts.
Issues like tackling terrorism and strengthening bilateral ties are expected to figure in the talks.
Without naming Pakistan, he said there are some who are trying to project an 'alarmist approach' to the situation in Kashmir, which is far from the ground realities.
The conspiracy was unearthed when the Special Cell of Delhi police received an intelligence input about two suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives, identified as Dujana and Ukasha, who allegedly infiltrated in Jammu and Kashmir through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, following which an FIR was registered, said a police source.
The mortal remains of former Union Minister Arun Nehru, who died in News Delhi on Thursday night, were consigned to flames on Friday in the presence of his relatives, including family of his cousin Rajiv Gandhi, and a host of leaders.
Majority of the 15 members said there should not be any statement or outcome issued after the consultations and their will prevailed, leaving China to come out and make a statement in its national capacity followed by Pakistan.
Riaz Mohammad Khan will replace Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, who was asked to leave India after the attack on Parliament.
CNG cars have been kept out of the ambit of the odd-even scheme while a decision on whether women drivers will continue to be exempted will be taken soon.
In a veiled reference to Pakistan, India said perpetrators of violence in Afghanistan must not be allowed safe havens in its neighbourhood, as it slammed the United Nations Security Council's sanctions regime for not designating the leader of Taliban as terrorist, calling such an approach a "mystery."
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