Vice-President to attend Pope's funeral

The Times of India: "Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekawat will lead a Parliamentary delegation to attend Pope John Paul II's funeral later this week, the government said Monday. India declared three days of mourning for the pontiff with the national flag flying at half mast after the Vatican announced the 84-year-old pope's death on Saturday due to heart failure. The pope visited India twice, once in 1986 when Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister and in 1999 when the Bharatiya Janata party was in power. "