Raid by I-T dept underway at the residence of Sunil Srivastava NEW DELHI: Income Tax officials on Saturday conducted searches at the residences of Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren‘s personal secretary, Sunil Srivastava and others. According to reports, around 9 premises in Ranchi and Jamshedpur are being covered as part of these raids.More details are…
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah NEW DELHI: A special court for elected representatives directed the Mysuru Lokayukta Police on Wednesday to investigate Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah, his wife, and others in connection with the alleged MUDA scam. The court has ordered the Lokayukta Police to submit a report within three months.This directive follows the Karnataka high…
GUWAHATI: Manipur CM N Biren Singh led a delegation of about 20 MLAs to Raj Bhavan Sunday and handed governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya a memorandum that purportedly recommends revoking the 2008 tripartite agreement on suspension of operations against tribal militant groups suspected to be behind the resurgence of violence in the state.Late in the evening,…
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: After hearing for a whole day, Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s bail plea in the corruption case of the Delhi excise policy scam. Kejriwal told the court that he was not a flight risk, not a hardened criminal or…
While Rahul Gandhi has neither condemned the CM nor offered support, Siddaramaiah’s supporters are peeved that even Mallikarjun Kharge has not publicly backed him BENGALURU : Though his colleagues insist chief minister Siddaramaiah has the backing of party brass in Delhi, speculation is mounting over the silence of Rahul Gandhi, opposition leader in the Lok…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday extended Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal‘s judicial custody till August 20 in a case filed by the CBI in connection with the state’s now-scrapped excise policy.The Delhi high court recently upheld the arrest of Kejriwal by the CBI in connection with the alleged excise policy scam. Kejriwal was…
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court extended the judicial custody of CM Arvind Kejriwal till August 8 in Excise policy case filed by CBI. He was produced through video conferencing from Tihar Jail.Earlier this month, the Supreme Court had granted interim bail to Kejriwal on July 12 in the money laundering case filed by the…
NEW DELHI: The home ministry will hold talks “at the earliest” with Meitei and Kuki representatives from Manipur as part of a fresh bid to bridge the ethnic divide that has been causing recurrent unrest and clashes between the state’s indigenous communities over the past one year.This was stated by home minister Amit Shah at…
NEW DELHI: Sikkim Krantikari Morcha supremo Prem Singh Tamang on Monday sworn in as chief minister of the Himalayan state for a second straight term.Governor Lakshman Acharya administered the oath of office and secrecy to Tamang and his council of ministers during the swearing-in ceremony at Paljor stadium.The council of ministers in Sikkim has a…
NEW DELHI: Former Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik‘s confidant VK Pandian on Sunday announced his retirement from active politics.Pandian announcement comes days after Biju Janata Dal (BJP) faced massive setback in Odisha assembly and Lok Sabha elections.The development also follows Patnaik’s statement claiming that Pandian was not his “successor” and that the people of the state…
