“My party high command has already made it clear that the Congress is not averse to making a leader from any regional party the Prime Minister,” Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters at the Congress office in Shimla on Thursday. In view of Mr. Hershman's “revelations”, the agency had earlier sought the permission of the trial court to conduct further investigation in the Bofors case. Two Indian climbers have died and a Chilean is missing on Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third-highest mountain, expedition organisers said Thursday. Biplab Baidya, 48, and Kuntal Karar, 46, were on the 8,586 metres mountain on the Nepal-India border with a five-member team from West Bengal. A crowd of men lifted the body of a women, wrapped in a white shroud, into an ambulance.

Source: The Hindu May 17, 2019 02:37 UTC