In a third such incident of its kind, a Spanish national was allegedly robbed by bike-borne assailants in Mandir Marg area in the heart of the national capital on Monday evening.

In what was a mere formality, veteran Congress leader Tarun Gogoi was unanimously elected as leader of the Assam Pradesh Congress Legislature Party for the third consecutive term on Tuesday.

Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Prof. V. K. Malhotra, criticised the city government for unabated power cuts and shortage of water in the capital.
“Irrespective of the promises of chief minister Sheila Dikshit the situation in the capital remains grim. People are facing acute shortages of water and electricity,” Prof. Malhotra said in a statement.

Even before the defeat of the party at the hustings could sink in, a blame game seems to have begun in the DMK camp. According to sources, many in the DMK are of the view that former telecom minister A. Raja and Rajya Sabha MP and party chief M. Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi are responsible for the debacle as they disgraced the party in the 2G spectrum scam.

The first Indo-US higher education summit scheduled for mid June in Washington has been postponed.
It is understood that scheduling conflict was faced for securing dates of Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal and the United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who were likely to jointly co-chair the event.

The Congress and allies have finally clinched a 20-member Cabinet, adopting the portfolio-sharing formula of the previous United Democratic Front ministries, with a few exceptions.

European aviation major Eurocopter on Tuesday unveiled its “EC-145 Mercedes Benz-style helicopter” at Geneva which it said would “take VIP travel to a whole different level”. Functionaries representing Eurocopter told this newspaper the copter would be equivalent to a “flying Mercedes Benz”. They added that another model of the EC-

Left red-faced by Abdur Rezzak Mollah’s outburst against outgoing chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and state industry minister Nirupam Sen, the CPI(M) leadership on Tuesday censured the former land and land reforms minister and party state committee member. The action was taken in the state committee meeting which was held to review the Left Front’s electoral debacle in the polls. The meeting was chaired by senior leader Benoy Konar.

India omitted any reference to a contentious United Nations (UN)-mandated experts’ panel in the joint press statement issued towards the end of Sri Lankan foreign minister G.L. Peiris’ visit to New Delhi, which should be seen as in keeping with its policy lately of treating Colombo with kid gloves.

The Congress will seek at least five ministerial berths in Ms Mamata Banerjee’s Cabinet. This was disclosed by a WBPCC office-bearer although AICC general secretary and in-charge of Bengal Shakeel Ahmad said that the party had not yet decided whether it would join the government.