Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Thursday said maximum security arrangements were being made for US President Barack Obama's visit to India later this month.
"We have established maximum security arrangements...(for the visit)," he told the media.
The US president will arrive in India to attend this year's Republic Day parade as the chief guest. He is expected to arrive in the national capital Jan 25.
A defamation case was filed against Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for saying at a rally in Maharashtra March 6 that the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) killed Mahatma Gandhi.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has received nearly Rs.15 million ($246,000) as donations in the first 10 days of March from within the country and outside, party sources said.
Fifteen security men and a civilian were killed Tuesday when Maoists sprang a deadly ambush on a patrol in a thickly forested area of Chhattisgarh, a short distance from the spot where 27 people were gunned down last year.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday lashed out at BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and said Gujarat was shining not for the poor but only for a handful of "rich industrialists."
The Supreme Court said Monday that if the government fails to take a decision on terror convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's plea seeking the commutation of his death sentence into life imprisonment, then it would decide the matter.
Video showing Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Chief Minister of New Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal asking TV news anchor, Punya Prasun Bajpai to highlight certain segments of his interview has gone viral on YouTube.