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ON BOARD PM’S SPECIAL FLIGHT: Prime Minister Manmonhan Singh sidestepped the question of tendering his resignation in the light of Rahul Gandhi’s harsh remarks on the worthiness of the pending ordinance to protect tainted MPs and MLAs against the Supreme Court order which bars their reelection and said he would discuss the matter with the Congress vice-president on return and also with his cabinet colleagues and Congress core group again before he took the final call.

New Delhi: After the postponement of the proposed India-Bangladesh bonhomie at Petropole-Benapole border schedule on October 2, the Gandhi Jayanti Day, the Border Security Force (BSF) of India has planned an entertainment evening in the Capital on this historic day.

New Delhi: Indian higher educational institutions are likely to sign memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with their counterparts in Belgium and Turkey.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and his office, still smarting under the solar scam heat, have been battered by a fresh storm.

NEW YORK: Ms Mamata Banerjee may not be the head of a national government to merit an invitation to speak before world rulers at a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session, but the firebrand West Bengal Chief Minister occupied the centre stage in international diplomacy at least in the course of bilateral talks between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his counterpart from Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, on the sidelines of UNGA’s 68th session here. “Mamata is like Julius Caesar’s spirit, more powerful in absence than in presence,” as a Bangladeshi official put it.

WASHINGTON: On a day of remarkable happenings internationally – September 27 - with rare diplomatic breakthroughs for President Obama, a gentle Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was received at the White House by the President as “a great friend and partner of USA, and to me personally”. After wide-ranging discussions on bilateral, regional and global issues at this third summit, the two leaders put a new stamp on the 67-year history of bilateral relations.

New Delhi: Come October 2 the Gandhi Jayanti Day. On this day on the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, India ans Bangladesh will witness bonhomie at the border. The Home Ministers of two countries will witness a historic cultural extravaganza between the neighbours.

A major Indo-Bangladesh joint project has run into rough weather due to the opposition of the local people who have been joined by ecologists and environmentalists.

The UPA-2 Government has no option but to withdraw the controversial ordinance on convicted law makers after Rahul Gandhi dubbed the measure as ‘complete nonsense’ which should be ‘torn and thrown out’. The ordinance stipulates negation of the Supreme Court order on disqualifying convicted MPs and MLAs. Rahul’s rebuff is considered an embarrassment to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his cabinet colleagues. The cabinet will meet next week after return of the PM from US visit, reconsider the ordinance, and withdraw it.

NEW YORK – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today urged upon US companies across industry to take advantage of the latest round of policy liberalization on foreign direct investment (FDI) to invest in India assuring that the country’s economy would return to the high annual growth mode of eight to nine per cent from the middle of next year as a result of the new initiatives.