NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday walked out of Tihar after spending 50 days in jail following the Supreme Court‘s order granting him interim bail in the excise policy case.“I have a request, we have to save the country from dictatorship. I am fighting against it with all might,” CM Kejriwal said…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail until June 1, allowing him to participate in the ongoing Lok Sabha election campaign. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said Kejriwal, arrested in connection with a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam,…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Friday accused Mallikarjun Kharge of creating impediments in the conduct of free and fair elections as it rejected the Congress chief‘s allegations of mismanagement and delay in release of voter turnout data. The poll body said Kharge’s allegations are unwarranted, without facts and ‘reflective of a biased and deliberate…
A Pune court on Friday found two accused guilty in the 2013 murder case of activist Narendra Dabholkar. The two were sentenced to life imprisonment. Pune special court pronounced the verdict in the Dabholkar murder trial, almost 11 years after the veteran rationalist was gunned down on August 20, 2013, by two bike-borne men on…
HYDERABAD: Khammam, which was just another Telangana parliamentary constituency, became the most prestigious seat after the state Congress leadership passed resolutions urging Sonia Gandhi, later Rahul Gandhi and finally Priyanka Gandhi to contest from here.While none of the Gandhis accepted the proposal, the seat became the most sought after in Telangana with three strong ministers…
NEW DELHI: Yesteryear actress Vyjayanthimala Bali, Telugu star Konidela Chiranjeevi, late M Fathima Beevi, the first woman judge of the Supreme Court, and “Bombay Samachar” owner Hormusji N Cama were among those honored with Padma awards by President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday. BJP leader O Rajagopal, Ladakh’s spiritual leader Togdan Rinpochey, Tamil actor late “Captain”…
NEW DELHI: CPI Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Vishwam wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to probe the wrongdoings by Adani and Ambani and unearth the hoards of black money from them and also alleged that the PM awarded several contracts and projects in controversial manners.The CPI also claimed that the failure…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Smriti Irani has thrown down the gauntlet to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi, inviting them to a debate on any television channel, with an anchor of their choice, at a time and place of their choosing, and on any issue they desire. Irani declared, “Dono bhai-behen ek taraf aur BJP…
NEW DELHI: Former Haryana deputy CM and JJP leader Dushyant Chautala wrote to the governor on Thursday, asking for a floor test. He stated that if the government lacks the majority, President’s Rule should be immediately implemented in the state.In an interview with ANI, Chautala said, “The government that was formed two months back is…
NEW DELHI: Karan Brar, one of the suspects in the killing of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, claimed in a 2019 social media video that he obtained a Canadian student visa within days through EthicWorks Immigration Services in Bathinda, Punjab, India, according to a report by Canada-based Global News. The immigration firm shared the…
