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Calcutta HC wants arrested Bengal minister shifted to Odisha AIIMS
Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in connection with the school jobs scam, should be taken to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences tomorrow by air ambulance, the Calcutta High Court has said. The court also remarked that given his “immense power and position” as the senior-most cabinet minister, it...
ED seizes Rs 20 cr cash in raid at house of Bengal minister’s aide
The Enforcement Directorate recovered Rs 20 crore in cash from the house of an associate of West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee. The ED raided Arpita Mukerjee’s house in connection with an alleged teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal. “The said amount is suspected to be proceeds of crime of...
Lt Governor wants CBI to probe Kejriwal’s liquor policy
Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena today recommended an investigation by probe agency Central Bureau of Investigation into the Arvind Kejriwal-led government’s contentious new excise policy. A July 8 report by the Chief Secretary established several violations of established law “in addition to deliberate and gross procedural lapses to...
TMC says it can’t be taken for granted for opposition unity
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress “cannot be taken for granted” for Opposition unity, said party leader Derek O’Brien today. Speaking to NDTV on why the party has chosen to abstain in the Vice-Presidential election on August 6, he said that the TMC — which has 35...
Lanka security forces raid main protest camp
Hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers and police raided the main anti-government protest camp in the capital early Friday and began tearing down tents of unarmed activists, an AFP reporter said. They swooped in on the protesters blocking the Presidential Secretariat in the capital hours before demonstrators were due to...
PM says Murmur win ray of hope for citizens
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated Droupadi Murmu on winning the presidential election. “India scripts history,” PM Modi tweeted after the National Democratic Alliance candidate – now the first tribal President of India – defeated the joint opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. “At a time when 1.3 billion Indians are...
Sonia Gandhi’s questioning today, Cong plans protests
The Congress has planned another show of strength as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) questions party chief Sonia Gandhi today in an alleged money laundering case connected to the National Herald newspaper. Mrs Gandhi’s questioning had been deferred earlier after she tested positive for Covid and was hospitalised. After being...
Rishi Sunak could be 6th Indian-origin head of state
Rishi Sunak, the Indian-origin former UK Chancellor, retained the lead in the fifth round of voting on Wednesday to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister. The race has now come down to just two, with UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss battling against Mr...
BJP slips in MP mayoral polls, retains municipal bodies
In 2014, the BJP swept the mayoral elections in Madhya Pradesh by scoring all 16 seats. This year, however, the state’s ruling BJP retained nine seats, lost five to Congress, one to the Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, and one to a party rebel who fought as an independent...
Comparison of Lanka crisis with India ‘misinformed’: Jaishankar
India is naturally worried over the “very serious crisis” in Sri Lanka and there are “very strong” lessons of fiscal prudence, responsible governance and not having “a culture of freebies” to be learnt, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told an all-party meeting on Tuesday. Jaishankar, who made the initial...
Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut summoned by Enforcement
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has been summoned for questioning tomorrow by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering probe. He was questioned last on July 1 for about 10 hours in a case about an alleged scam in the redevelopment of a housing complex named Patra...
Rishi Sunak widens lead in British PM race after party vote
Former finance minister Rishi Sunak widened his lead in the latest round of voting Monday by Conservative MPs to decide Britain’s next prime minister, but the race to get in the final two tightened. Sunak won the support of 115 Tory lawmakers, followed by Penny Mordaunt on 82 votes,...
Row over garbage cart with PM, Yogi pictures
A man was seen pushing a garbage cart in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura, a scene nothing too out of the ordinary but for the framed photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the pile of discarded items. The municipal corporation employee lost his job after...
Centre calls all-party meet on Lanka crisis
An all-party meeting on the turmoil in Sri Lanka has been called on Tuesday evening, with briefings by Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Dr S Jaishankar, the government said on Sunday, following appeals by Tamil Nadu-based parties to intervene in the crisis. At a meeting of parties ahead of...
Cong refutes BJP charge of plot against Modi’s Gujarat govt
The Congress on Saturday strongly refuted the allegations against veteran party leader Ahmed Patel that he had hatched a conspiracy to destabilise the Gujarat government, led by then Chief Minister Narendra Modi, after the 2002 riots. While opposing the bail application of activist Teesta Setalvad, the Special Investigation Team (SIT)...
Court upholds dissent while granting bail to Zubair
A Delhi court while granting bail to Alt News fact-checker Mohammed Zubair in a 2018 tweet case on Friday said Hinduism is one of the oldest and most tolerant religions and rejected the prosecution’s argument that Zubair’s use of “Before 2014” and “After 2014” in a tweet had hurt...
1985 Air India bombing suspect shot dead In Canada: Report
An acquitted suspect in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people was shot dead Thursday in an apparent targeted shooting in westernmost Canada, local media reported. Ripudaman Singh Malik, a one-time supporter of the Sikh separatist Khalistan movement who was in 2005 acquitted in the Air India...
Lok Sabha adds ‘corruption’, ‘dictatorial’ to unparliamentary words
Use of terms like ‘jumlajeevi‘, ‘baal buddhi‘, ‘Covid spreader’ and ‘Snoopgate’ and even commonly used words like ‘ashamed’, ‘abused, ‘betrayed’, ‘corrupt’, ‘drama’, ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘incompetent’ will henceforth be considered unparliamentary in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, according to a new booklet by the Lok Sabha Secretariat. The booklet...
