Mr Rahul Gandhi is set play a bigger role, but when he will do so will be decided by Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Mr Rahul Gandhi is set play a bigger role, but when he will do so will be decided by Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

The BJP’s “lauh purush (iron man)” L.K. Advani turned emotional on his birthday on Tuesday and even had to leave the dais for few minutes to regain his composure. At a function organised at his official residence, Mr Advani, who turned 84, was seen wiping tears when party colleagues praised him for his contribution towards Indian politics and the BJP.

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) is thought to be pretty much a north-of-7-degrees-North affair — essentially taking in the subcontinent, with the geography bent just a shade four years ago to pull in Afghanistan as well.

The judicial custody of Jammu and Kashmir natives, arrested for their alleged involvement in the Delhi high court blast, was on Tuesday extended by a court till November 22.

The CBI is set to book former and serving officials of the Department of Telec-ommunications (DoT) in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in awarding spectrum licences when the late Pramod Mahajan was communications minister.

The judicial custody of Jammu and Kashmir natives, arrested for their alleged involvement in the Delhi high court blast, was on Tuesday extended by a court till November 22.

Indian Oil Corporation, which has the largest petrol pumps in the country, indicated on Tuesday that it may cut petrol prices in case international crude oil prices continue to decline and the rupee does not depreciate.

Awaiting allotment of a plot of land for the last 30 years, a man on Tuesday moved the Delhi high court seeking contempt proceedings against the DDA, accusing it of not honouring its promise made in 2009 that it would meet its obligations by August 2011.

Bargaining for a financial package for West Bengal, the Trinamul Congress MPs did not press for a rollback of the petrol price hike nor did they raise the issue of its ministers withdrawing from the Union Cabinet during their hour-long meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday.