Politics
Lease row threatens Soren’s political career
Jharkhand is again in the limelight, but for all the wrong reasons. First, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s name got mired in a mining controversy for a land he leased to himself. Moreover, controversial Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer and mining secretary Pooja Singhal was arrested by the Enforcement...
Non-bailable warrants against Azam Khan’s son, wife
A special MP-MLA court here Wednesday issued non-bailable warrants against the son and wife of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan in a fake birth certificate case. SP MLA Abdullah Azam Khan and his mother Tazin Fatma were issued the warrants for non-appearance in the court in his fake...
BJP plans 15-day blitz to mark 8 years of Modi Govt
Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda has given a list of tasks to the public representatives of the party to mark eight years of the Narendra Modi government in power. A communication sent to all the party post holders and state chiefs asks them to lead the teams in...
HP to move Interpol for red corner notice against Pannu
Cracking down on Khalistani terror groups, the Himachal Police are approaching the Interpol to secure a red corner notice against banned organisation Sikhs For Justice’s Gurpatwant Singh Pannu. Pannu is the main accused in Sunday’s incident wherein Khalistani banners were tied to the Himachal Vidhan Sabha gate in Dharamsala....
Ranas to visit Delhi to complain against mistreatment
MP Navneet Rana and her husband Ravi Rana will visit Delhi today and inform Home Ministry officials about the sedition charges against them, ‘vendetta politics’ through BMC action and their mistreatment in custody. And back home, the civic body officials are likely to visit the Ranas’ residence for a...
MNS, Shiv Sena in new feud over Ayodhya visit
After the loudspeaker controversy, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena have now locked horns over destination Ayodhya. After MNS chief Raj Thackeray announced his June 5 visit to Ayodhya, Maharashtra’s tourism and environment minister Aaditya Thackeray said at a press conference that he along with Shiv Sena...
BJP leader files HC plea to open 20 rooms of Taj Mahal
The Allahabad high court has received a petition before its Lucknow bench seeking it to issue directives to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to open 20 rooms inside the world’s wonder — Taj Mahal in Agra to find if Hindu idols and inscriptions are hidden there. The plea...
Bagga gets relief from HC hours after court warrant
Delhi BJP leader Tajinder Singh Bagga got relief from the Punjab and Haryana High Court at a latenight hearing on Saturday. The court ordered that no coercive action should be taken against the BJYM leader till the next hearing on May 10. This order came hours after a Mohali...
Delhi police security for Bagga, case against Punjab police
The Delhi Police on Friday registered a case of kidnapping after BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was arrested by Punjab Police personnel, officials said. They claimed that the Punjab Police team did not inform the local police before arresting Tajinder Bagga from his residence in Delhi’s Janakpuri. Tajinder...
Shah tells Bengal partymen President’s rule not possible
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday asked the BJP state unit to strengthen the party organization in order to put up a fight against the ruling party. In an internal closed-door party meeting, referring to demands for imposing President’s Rule in the state, Shah also said it was...
Punjab cops arrest BJP leader from Delhi home
BJP leader Tajinder Bagga has been arrested by Punjab police and is now being taken to Mohali from Delhi, where a case had been reportedly registered against him at the cyber cell of the station. Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga, the national secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM),...
JK Cong calls delimitation panel report ‘biased’
The Jammu and Kashmir Congress on Thursday sharply reacted to the report of the Delimitation Commission, terming it totally biased, faulty, politically motivated and against the basic norms of delimitation. It also hit out at the commission for neglecting the fundamental principles and norms and ignoring the aspirations...
BJP MLAs demand UT for North Bengal at Shah rally
Claiming that the people of the northern part of West Bengal have been deprived of development, two BJP MLAs on Thursday demanded a union territory (UT) for North Bengal at a party rally which was later addressed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh, a...
Mamata blasts Shah for spreading lies about Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said Union Home Minister Amit Shah is spreading lies about the situation in West Bengal while turning a blind eye to the communal violence and attacks on women in BJP-ruled states. The Centre is dispatching teams of NHRC and others to West...
Third TN bill to snatch Governor’s powers passed
The MK Stalin-led administration is determined to curtail the powers of governor RN Ravi to appoint vice chancellors of universities in Tamil Nadu, thus empowering the state government to take the final call. Taking the ongoing tussle with Ravi to the next level, the DMK government passed three bills...
150 MNS workers held in Nashik for communal tension
At least 150 workers of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena have so far been arrested by the police for sparking communal tensions in Nashik. “Preventive actions are being taken against those involved in such activities. Cops have been deployed in all sensitive spots to ensure law and order,” said Inspector...
SC orders notification of M’rashtra civic polls
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra State Election Commission to notify the programme for local bodies elections within two weeks. While elections have been long-delayed due to a major delimitation exercise, a three-judge bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar, Abhay S Oka, and C T Ravikumar said...
Cong lawyers protest against Chidambaram at Calcutta HC
Congress leader and senior advocate P Chidambaram on Wednesday faced a massive backlash from a section of lawyers, claiming to be supporters of the Congress, outside the Calcutta High Court for representing agro-processing firm Keventer. Accusing Chidambaram of playing with the sentiment of the grand old party, the lawyers...
