A 65-year-old woman was murdered in posh GK-I area on Friday. The murder of the victim Yogesh came to light around 6.45 pm when her nephew returned home from office.

As the role of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi “expands”, a host of Congress leaders — Mr Digvijay Singh, Mr Milind Deora, Mr Jairam Ramesh, Mr Prithviraj Chavan, Mr Kanishka Singh and Ms Meenakshi Natrajan — could play key roles either in the organisation or in government in the coming days. Such is the talk within the party.

An Australian national was held hostage by two unidentified assailants at Bhuli Bhatiyari Mahal in Lutyens’ Delhi and robbed of his gold ornaments on Wednesday. The police said the victim, who had arrived in the national capital last week on a tourist visa, was staying at Chanchal Delux Hotel.

There is good news for small savers: the government on Friday raised interest rates on post office savings and the public provident fund.

One more minister of the Naveen Patnaik council of ministers is caught in the land row. The state BJP on Thursday alleged that revenue minister Surya Narayan Patro had “grabbed” 10,296 square feet land at Nayapali in the city.

The Supreme Court on Friday made it plain that it has no role to play in the Telangana issue as any decision on formation of the new state entirely fell in the domain of the Union government. But the top court took cognisance of the “bad governance” and huge damage to public property during the agitation for separate state and issued notices to the Centre and the Andhra Pradesh governments in this regard.

The Congress on Friday launched its “Mission 2013” to wrest power from the ruling BJP in Chhattisgarh in the coming Assembly polls, in style, by beginning its campaign for 11 Bastar seats — considered crucial to return to power at Raipur — on the “auspicious” time of 11 hours 11 minutes and 11 seconds on the “lucky” date of 11.11.11.

Butter, known as “makkhan” in local parlance, is believed to be the main political ingredient during elections. Candidates use it on their leaders who, in turn, lavish it on the voters.

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee vice-president Lal Singh on Friday announced that Capt. Amarinder Singh will be the next chief minister.

The Congress on Friday, though refrained from going into speculation about AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s larger role in the party, made it clear that the young leader will “unfold” electoral plank at Phoolpur in Uttar Pradesh on November 14 to project the oldest political outfit as an alternative to the misrule of the Mayawati-led BSP in the state.