New Delhi, April 19 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was sucessfully operated upon today for sinuses by a team of ENT specialists at the Fortis Escorts Institute, New Delhi.

She had been recently suffering from nasal allergies and sinusitis and was admitted to the Fortis Escorts Institute yesterday evening.

She is recovering well and has been advised rest for few days. (ANI)

Sustainable development is an integral part of fundamental rights conferred on citizens by the Constitution and cannot be allowed to be hampered by environmental degradation, the Supreme Court has said.

“Inter-generational equity and sustainable development have come to be firmly embedded in our constitutional jurisprudence as an integral part of the fundamental rights conferred by Article 21(Right to Life) of the Constitution.”

Saying that she was “shocked” about the rape of a five-year-old in Delhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj Friday demanded the girl should be immediately shifted to AIIMS.

“I am terribly shocked to know about the details of the rape of five year old child in Delhi. She should be shifted to AIIMS immediately,” Sushma Swaraj said on her Twitter account.

“I had thought that after Damini case thinking will change. Unfortunately, the situation has worsened,” she said.

Whose development model — Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s or Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s — he thinks will work for India? Well, IT czar Azim Premji clearly chose to duck the “googly” and steer clear of any controversy.

When a reporter wanted to know his views on “what model will really work for India” in the context of the debate over the “development agenda” of Modi and Rahul, the chairman of Wipro Ltd refused to offer any comment.

Senior advocate and suspended BJP MP on Friday said any party, which wants to come to power after the next Lok Sabha elections, should declare its prime ministerial candidate in advance.

Talking to reporters during a private visit here, Jethamlani said, “The political party wanting to come to power should declare the name of its prime ministerial candidate in advance, for giving people enough time in selecting the party.”

Rahul Gandhi on Friday said he wanted to “correct the system” within Congress as problems of grassroots level workers did not reach its top brass and assured partymen that he was available to them at any time.

In a closed-door interaction with delegates as part of organisation building exercise here, the fourth such meet in Punjab, the Congress Vice President told partymen that he wanted to “correct the system” within the party.

The five-year-old girl battling for life after being starved, tortured and brutally raped here for two days, was Friday shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for treatment, a police officer said.

“The girl has been shifted to AIIMS from Swami Dayanand Hospital, for better treatment,” Additional Commissioner of Police DK Gupta told IANS.

The girl was raped several times by her neighbour, who abducted her April 15 and held her hostage in his flat in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar for over two days, torturing her and denying her water and food, according to police.

Indian-origin student Sunil Tripathi is not a suspect in the Boston marathon bombing, contrary to some rumours floating on the social media.

Tripathi, a 22-year-old Brown University student who went missing mysteriously on March 16, was reported by some as the Boston bombing suspect number two on Thursday night.

Tripathi was first suggested as a suspect for Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings on Reddit, then later by the Twitter account of Kami Mattioli, who knew the college student when he was in high school, the Inquisitr, a news website reported.