Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Thursday sought to play down the controversy over absence of Narendra Modi’s image from posters for his rath yatra, saying the Gujarat chief minister was like his elder brother and the fuss over it was unnecessary.

When former mayor M. Subramanian commissioned the delightful wall paintings to add colour and character to the cityscape, he announced that the civic body was taking great pains to beautify Chennai.

A Bihar court on Saturday summoned Congress President, Ms Sonia Gandhi, to appear before it on July 29 in connection with a complaint alleging that her depiction in posters in Uttar Pradesh in 2007 as