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In October 1968, two years after Venezuela opened one of its first embassies in Asia in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi visited the resource-rich South American nation. The 18-hour visit was the penultimate leg of a Latin America tour that covered Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia and Trinidad, among other countries.From the outset, Caracas rolled out the red carpet for Gandhi. At Simon Bolívar Maiquetia Airport, she was greeted by an unusually large delegation that included the Venezuelan president and vice-president, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, the attorney general, cabinet ministers and members of the clergy.“Her arrival was marked by festivity, warmth and hospitality, solidarity and applause,” Venezuelan academic Hernan Lucena Molero wrote in a 2013 paper titled Indira Gandhi in Venezuela (1968-2013): 45th Anniversary of a Historic Visit. “Security was provided by female personnel deputed by the Venezuelan state; flags from both countries lined the runway and many journalists intent on doing their job, unmindful of the pushing and shoving by the military police, covered the event.”Breaking protocol, Gandhi asked Venezuelan President Raul Leoni to let her accept bouquets from locals and Indian expatriate children. “The airport was filled, thanks to a significant turnout by the Venezuelan public,”...Read more

The Bombay High Court on Monday kept in abeyance the Thane district collector’s orders recognising and de-recognising alliances in the Ambernath Municipal Council, PTI reported.A bench comprising Justices Ravindra Ghuge and Abhay Mantri directed the collector to pass a reasoned order after hearing all the concerned parties – the Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress, the Ajit Pawar-led faction of the Nationalist Congress Party and the Eknath Shinde-led grouping of the Shiv Sena.Commenting on the side-switching of four members of the Ajit Pawar-led NCP in Ambernath, the court quipped that they were “globetrotting”, PTI reported.After the municipal elections in Ambernath held on December 20, the local BJP unit had allied with the Congress to sideline the Shinde Sena, which is its coalition partner in the Maharashtra government. While the Shinde Sena had emerged as the single largest party in the Ambernath municipal council, no group could reach the halfway mark of 31 on its own.The BJP won the post of the council chairperson through direct election, PTI reported.Initially, 14 BJP members, 12 Congress members, four leaders from the Ajit Pawar-led NCP and one Independent submitted a letter to the Thane collector seeking to be recognised as an alliance, The Indian Express reported. The coalition, the Ambernath Vikas Aghadi, was recognised as a pre-poll...Read more