Also from our Delhi correspondent: Members of Parliament are being allowed to familiarise themselves with the iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tablet eReader. 

Over 250 MPs so far attended the special class held inside Parliament house. Software engineers from the National Informatics Centre as well as Samsung had developed a DIY computer package for MPs, but apparently a tutorial was needed. This is an intitiative to save paper by the Parliament and also to dispense with the distribution of  printed versions by special motor riders. 

Buzz in the corridors of the Union Law Ministry is that the President of India's office is forwarding a petition for the disqualification of a Tamil Nadu MP to the Union Law Ministry as he contested from a different party symbol, but has not adhered to the whips of the party from which he was elected.