Rahul Gandhi begins his 'kisan padyatra' from Maharashtra

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi began a 15-km day-long padyatra in Amravati district in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra on Thursday, during which he will meet the families of farmers who committed suicide.The locals in Kolkata faced a lot of problems on Thursday due to the 24-hour shutdown call by the Left Party and its central trade unions.A Special Court today rapped CBI for not impounding the passport of Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal, chargesheeted along with 14 others in a coal block allocation scam case.Sixty MPs from various parties have given a notice in Rajya Sabha to move a privilege motion against a daily newspaper and a weekly for publishing what they called “false, fabricated and malicious” reports about functioning of the Rajya Sabha television.