As summer sets in, a familiar spectre returns to the Indian subcontinent: the brutal, unrelenting heat.
More than 400 illegal immigrants were arrested in Ahmedabad and over 100 in Surat during a pre-dawn crackdown from Friday night to Saturday morning.
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has been admitted to a hospital here on Tuesday and is said to be stable.
The two-day session on the banks of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad will be held under the leadership of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.
The AICC Session, being held in Gujarat after 64 years, has become important in the wake of the discontent among Muslims over the passage of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill in Parliament last week. The Congress opposed the Bill tooth and nail during the debate in both Houses.
After the meeting of Disaster Management ministers of States and UTs, Shah said that in the last nine years, the central government has achieved a lot in this area.
A passenger on Akasa Air flight QP1326, flying from Ahmedabad to Bengaluru, was found smoking in the aircraft's lavatory.
Earlier on Tuesday, another 'Operation Kaveri' flight carrying 231 Indian evacuees reached Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Tuesday from Saudi Arabia's Jeddah, Jaishankar said.
Describing the arrangements, the Director said that special Geothermal aeration has been installed in the Nocturnal Zoo.
According to sources, the sentence in the Umesh Pal kidnapping case may be announced on March 28.
