Having travelled far and wide during his two terms as prime minister and having earned more praise as an economist-statesman overseas than within his country, the forum that marked his entry to the high table of global geopolitics should have an added significance.
In the last three months, Sukhbir Singh Badal has been preening over the success of last December's "Progressive Punjab Investors' Summit", claiming that the creme-de-la-creme of Indian industry had promised to invest nearly Rs.67,000-crore (Rs.670 billion/$11 billion) in the state.
Police have arrested 14 AAP members on charges of rioting outside the BJP office here and said Thursday they were looking two key AAP leaders. The AAP accused the police of bias.
Our EVMs have been described glowingly, interestingly enough also by many high courts in judgments while examining petitions in the years gone by. It is, as I have often stated, an efficient and tamper-proof machine
Protests by AAP workers outside the BJP offices in the national and Uttar Pradesh capitals against party chief Arvind Kejriwal's detention in Gujarat snowballed into a pitched battle between members of both parties.
India will elect a new parliament over nine days in April-May in the world's largest democratic exercise, with the Election Commission Wednesday saying the results will be declared May 16.