Antony panel to review Cong poll debacle
New Delhi: A high-powered panel of Congress led by party veteran AK Antony on Sunday took stock of factors leading to its crushing defeat in the lok Sabha elections in Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh. While the Congress is participating in an alliance Government in Jharkhand headed by JMM leader Hemant Soren, it is in the Opposition in other two States for more than a decade. In the meeting, the Antony panel asked each participant the reasons for the party’s poor show and elicited views as to how it can stage a comeback. All the lok Sabha candidates, PCC chiefs and senior leaders of the three states took part in the exercise.
killer may be first deportee to b’desh
New Delhi: India may be inclined to accede Bangladesh’s request to extradite a multiple-murder suspect of the neighbouring country who was arrested in Kolkata last week. If accepted, Nur Hossain, wanted in Bangladesh for killing seven people in Dhaka’s satellite city Narayanganj about two months ago, could be the first Bangladeshi to be deported from India since the signing of the extradition pact between the two countries in December 2013.