More details are emerging on Tahawwur Hussain Rana's Canadian connections. According to latest reports, Rana's brother Abbas is a journalist with Ottawa's Hill Times newspaper where he writes the popular 'Hill Climbers' column on the latest parliamentary staff changes.
BJP sources have told NDTV that LK Advani has hinted that he won’t complete his five-year term as the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. He has reportedly conveyed to Sushma Swaraj that she will replace him in that post. According to sources, BJP president Rajnath Singh has also backed Sushma Swaraj as the next Leader of Opposition. Singh will step down as the chief before his term ends, and plans to assist the next chief to take charge, added the sources.
Vice Air Chief P K Barbora, who hit the headlines on women fighter pilots, has done it again. He attacked America and China on Thursday. This time he is training his guns on the United States and growing Indo-US ties with the former US secretary of Defence William Cohen in attendance.
Instead of meeting the Enforcement Directorate officials who’re handling his case, the former chief minister of Jharkhand was campaigning in Chaibasa, the part of Jharkhand from where he has six candidates contesting the state elections. Among them, his wife, Geeta.
The government has said the jawans would be hosted temporarily at a police station nearby.
