West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will stay away from the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as prime minister May 26, but send two of her close associates to the event, a state minister announced Friday.
A former Sikh militant and elder brother of a convict in Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's assassination was arrested here for robbing a diamond merchant, police said Friday.
A court here Friday extended, till June 6, the judicial custody of former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in a defamation case.
Even before formally taking over as the prime minister, Narendra Modi is on the job already as he called Afghan President Hamid Karzai and condemned the terror attack on Indian consulate in Herat.
The Congress Friday defended its vice president Rahul Gandhi against mounting criticism in the party and said his sister Priyanka Gandhi only could decide if she wanted to take up a bigger role in the party.
A storm is brewing in the BJP with many Delhi leaders allegedly threatening to "not cooperate" and even "lose deliberately" if former top cop Kiran Bedi was named the party's next chief ministerial nominee, party sources said.