Indian Oil Corporation will fund restoration of the Sun temple at Konark in Orissa, Minister for Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni said on Tuesday.
Sibal, however, added that Natwar's removal did not mean that he was guilty.
Priya's candidature was okayed by Sonia a few months ago with the All India Congress Committee declaring that she would be the party nominee from the seat represented by her father Sunil Dutt several times.
Despite registering a growth in the number of foreign tourists, India continues to lag behind other neighbouring countries, including China, Indonesia, Thailand and Hong Kong, in terms of tourist arrivals.
The Congress party on Sunday expressed confidence in finding a way to address the Left parties' anger against the government's decision to disinvest in Bharat Heavy Eelectricals Ltd.
Ambika Soni and Oscar Fernandes have also been nominated to contest the June 28 biennial elections.
United Progressive Alliance chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi will join Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on April 7 in Kashmir when he flags off the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service.
Terror attacks in Malegaon in Maharashtra and elsewhere have not affected the inflow of foreign tourists which recorded a 13.1 per cent growth in the country this year, Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
While the 16 Congress legislators in the state favoured joining the Mulayam Singh government, a section of the central leadership strongly opposed any such move.
The Congress released a list of 193 candidates in New Delhi on Monday.
The deputy prime minister is expected to visit the sites of the blasts and also the injured people in hospitals.
The meeting also includes some of Sonia Gandhi's close associates and is the first effort by the Congress leadership for a reproachment with those who raised questions over the leadership.
A high power Congress committee, led by senior leader Motilal Vora, is likely to take a final decision on his entry in a day or two.
Asked about the organisational changes made by Gandhi and the subsequent reported statements by some leaders who had written to her over party reforms, Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said he had not seen a single statement by any Congress leader on the issue and cannot comment on that.
P Chidambaram proposed that Sonia should be made the party's interim president.
In an apparent message to the G23, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said she is a full-time, hands-on party president and there is no need for leaders to speak to her through the media.
Congress on Friday said it is "seriously considering" Captain Amarinder Singh as its candidate for the Amritsar parliamentary seat from where senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley is contesting his maiden election.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi held a meeting with senior party leaders on Wednesday amid reports that a final call on the fate of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna will be taken soon.
'Temperamentally, they are quite alike.' 'Ahmed Patel avoided the limelight and was not a power seeker.' 'The Gandhis too are not power wielders, but trustees of power.'
'I told Rahul: "You have to become president. Taalne se nahin hoga (you can't avoid the responsibility any longer)".' 'Rahul said: "I will think about it".'
The Congress picked Charanjit Singh Channi as the next chief minister of Punjab, making him the first Dailt to hold the post in the state, a day after Amarinder Singh resigned following a bitter power tussle in the party.
At a time when the Congress is perhaps facing its toughest electoral challenge and senior leaders are opting out of the race one by one, the party has at least succeeded in fielding tough candidates in two Lok Sabha constituencies in Punjab. Anita Katyal reports.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday put the onus on the People's Democratic Party over the formation of a new government in Jammu and Kashmir, and said that they do not have any objection to PDP president Mehbooba Mufti becoming the chief mkinister.
Rahul Gandhi, in turn, thanked all the leaders for reposing faith in him and said he would apply his mind on their request of becoming the Congress president, the sources said.
FDI inflows in the manufacturing sector rose by almost 45 per cent between October last year and this February.
On the eve of Congress President Sonia Gandhi's birthday on December 9, the party handed over a 4-0 defeat to her in the assembly elections in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram is Congress nominee from Maharashtra for the biennial elections to Rajya Sabha while senior leaders Kapil Sibal and Jairam Ramesh have been named from Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka respectively.
'If you put your own party into the witness box, like what Sidhu did, and treat them as wrongdoers, then how will the people of Punjab trust the party?'
'Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal are the two people who have been marked and punished'
Sonia Gandhi on Sunday hosted her first Iftar in three years, which saw the Congress president sharing a table with leaders of RJD and its new-found ally Janata Dal-United.
The Congress vice president, who began his three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, spoke to the families of six civilians including a headman and a teacher who were killed in ceasefire violations by Pakistan in Balakote on Independence day.
The letter signed by other Congress leaders stated that the PM had used "threatening and intimidating" language against them.
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