lS Speaker cancels meet with US MPs in protest
New Delhi: In a major snub, lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar cancelled her meeting with a senior US Congressional delegation here on Monday as a mark of protest against the treatment meted out to India’s Deputy Consul General in New York. Kumar, herself a Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer who quit the service before joining politics, cancelled the meeting as she felt it was not “appropriate” to meet the Parliamentarians of the US, who illtreated one of India’s senior diplomats, according to sources. National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon, who also had a meeting with the five-member US team, did not meet them, apparently for the same reason.
CBi arrests 4 in 2012 Assam violence
New Delhi: CBI has arrested four persons in connection with an incident during the 2012 ethnic violence between the Bodos and minorities in Assam in which over 100 people were killed and thousands displaced.