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ED says Rs 100 cr bribes paid In Delhi liquor scam
Bribes worth Rs 100 crore were paid for favours involving the now-scrapped Delhi liquor sales policy, in which Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia is an accused, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claimed on Thursday. They also claimed to have found that over three dozen VIPs, including Mr Sisodia, allegedly changed...
Meet warns against information manipulation in India
European parliamentarians and officials have cautioned against the capacity of social media users in India to manipulate the digital information environment for political and ideological propaganda. At a briefing moderated by Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Marketa Gregorova streamed online on Tuesday, experts warned that digitalisation in India...
Nitish renews call for all-India caste census after SC verdict
A day after the Supreme Court backed the Centre’s 10 per cent quota for the poor or EWS (Economically Weaker Sections) in jobs and education, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar called for a nationwide caste census while his Tamil Nadu counterpart MK Stalin’s party said his government would challenge...
Karnataka court orders blocking of Cong Twitter account
A Bengaluru court has ordered the temporary blocking of the Congress’s Twitter handle after a music firm filed a copyright case against the party for playing song from the movie KGF-2 at the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi. M Naveen Kumar, who manages MRT music,...
Supreme Court upholds 10% economic reservation
The Supreme Court today upheld the 10 per cent reservation in all colleges and government jobs for the poorer sections of India’s so-called “upper castes”. Two judges — CJI UU Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat – of the 5 in the bench, dissented. Reservation structured singularly on economic...
Kharge takes swipe at PM over bridge collapse
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday wondered whether the ‘charm’ of Prime Minister Narendra Modi led to the Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat. Launching an attack on PM Modi on his maiden visit to Bengaluru after becoming the party president, the 80-year-old Congress veteran charged the Prime Minister with...
Telangana Cong loss may be watershed moment for party
Although the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) scooped a win in the Munugode by-election after a fierce neck-and-neck battle with the BJP, the real story from the bypoll was that of the Congress. In a state that was once a major source of its electoral strength, powering its two...
Tirupati temple richer than India’s biggest firms
Tirupati’s world famous Lord Venkateswara temple’s net worth of over Rs 2.5 lakh crore (about $30 billion) is more than the market capitalisation of IT services firm Wipro, food and beverage company Nestle and state-owned oil giants ONGC and IOC. Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, keeper of the temple dedicated to...
Rishi Sunak speaks of pride at being UK’s first Hindu PM
The UK’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister, who is also an observant Hindu, believes the landmark says something important about the state of diversity in Britain, according to an interview published on Saturday. The 42-year-old Sunak also revealed that he refused to step aside for ex-PM Boris Johnson in last...
Vande Mataram, Jana Gana Mana on same level: Centre
The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that the national anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’ and the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ “stand on the same level” and citizens should show equal respect to both. While unlike the national anthem there are no penal provisions or official instructions about singing...
Kejriwal to announce AAP’s Gujarat CM candidate
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal will announce today the name of the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections, party office-bearers said. The candidate will be named on the basis of opinion submitted to the party by the people of the state, they...
Houses built under PM’s scheme in MP go ‘missing’
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi handed over lakhs of houses to the poor as part of an ambitious government drive, at least 75 homes constructed under the same scheme have gone ‘missing’ in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna. The houses had been constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana which...
Voting in Telangana, Bihar, Haryana, UP by-elections
In contests symbolic of the fierce turf war between the BJP and regional parties, seven assembly constituencies in six states will elect new legislators in bypolls on Thursday, with Telangana and Bihar hosting two of the more closely watched clashes. Telangana has been primed for a high-stakes battle between...
Pilot, Gehlot fight escalates over Modi’s praise
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has hit back after rival Sachin Pilot appeared to escalate their long-running feud, flagging the “climate of indecision” in the Congress’s state unit and PM Narendra Modi’s praise for his arch-nemesis. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Alwar, Gehlot urged his party leaders...
Minister calls Delhi gas chamber as Kejriwal attacks PM
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s efforts at cornering Prime Minister Narendra Modi over shocking levels of air pollution in the capital and rest of north India earned him a sharp rebuke from the Union Environment Minister on Wednesday. In a scathing attack on Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Union...
Two women get IG rank in CRPF, creating a first
The proverbial glass ceiling in the country’s largest paramilitary force has finally been broken. For the first time in 35 years since the first women’s battalion was raised in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), two lady officers have been promoted to the rank of Inspector General (IG). An IG...
Rahul says KCR in league with BJP and Modi
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi steered the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra campaign through the streets of Hyderabad and attacked Telangana’s TRS government led by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for allegedly working with the BJP against the people’s interest. “Whenever BJP brings any bill in parliament, TRS always support the...
Delhi Police raids homes of The Wire editors on BJP complaint
The homes of two editors of news site “The Wire” were searched by the Delhi Police this evening after a complaint by the BJP’s Amit Malviya. The police searched the homes of Siddharth Varadarajan and MK Venu, the founding editors of The Wire, and seized their phones and laptops....
