Attacking the Congress for skipping the corruption issue during its AICC session, the main Opposition BJP on Tuesday said the Congress has become “indifferent to corruption” by maintaining a “complete silence” on the issue. The party also accused the Congress of targeting RSS leaders on terror links as a diversionary tactic.

Claiming that at the core of the party’s politics in the country is that of unity in the society and not of dividing it, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said a strong Congress has always been a pre-requite for strong India.

A one-day meeting of the AICC members on Tuesday authorised Congress president Sonia Gandhi to constitute the all-powerful Congress Working Committee and the central election committee.

The Congress on Tuesday went full blast in attacking the RSS and its sister organisations, accusing them of being involved in terrorism and held that the Allahabad high court verdict does not condone the demolition of Babri Masjid but skirted the Adarsh Housing scam.

In a major breakthrough, British scientists discovered that antibodies can fight viruses from within infected cells.

In a bizarre incident, unidentified burglars set a local cooperative bank afire after apparently failing to get hold of the cash kept in its lockers at Alipur in outer Delhi in the early hours of Monday. The burglars entered the bank by creating a hole through roof and also used a ladder to get down. The police is investigating the case from all possible angles.

The Delhi Cabinet on Monday approved cluster bus service to be run by corporate entities. The Cabinet gave its approval for four clusters, which in all will bring about 700 buses in the city in a move to mitigate the shortfall due to the phaseout of Blueline buses from the city.

After observing that the life of pedestrians in the city is more important than the issue of livelihood of Blueline bus operators, a division bench comprising Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Valmiki J. Mehta of the Delhi high court on Monday declined to restrain a government notification to phaseout the Blueline buses.

Ahead of US President Barack Obama’s high-profile visit and with Diwali approaching, the home ministry on Monday asked all states, particularly Maharashtra, Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir, to step up security and avert possible terror strikes.

Zhou Yongkang, ninth-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party politburo Chinese President Hu Jintao’s pointman on North Korea and Tibet, called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Monday.