Politics
Rajnath denies bond donations, action against firms linked
Defence minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajnath Singh in an exclusive interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi on Friday rejected the opposition’s allegations about a connection between certain companies donating funds to the BJP under the now-outlawed electoral bonds scheme and action by central agencies...
Boxer Vijender Singh delivers a punch to Cong after BJP switch
Olympic medalist and boxer Vijender Singh, who recently switched from the Congress to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), posted a cryptic message on social media platform X on Friday. In his post, written in Hindi, Singh wrote, “I will remain a rebel at those gatherings where fame is achieved...
Assam CM defends Kangana’s remark on Netaji as first PM
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday defended actor-turned-politician and BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate Kangana Ranaut’s assertion that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was the first Prime Minister of the country. Sarma said Netaji had established the Azad Hind government four years before Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had become the...
SP’s Shivpal Yadav threatens voters in UP’s Budaun
Days before the first phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024, Samajwadi Party senior leader Shivpal Yadav landed in a controversy for allegedly bullying and threatening voters in Uttar Pradesh’s Budaun. A video of the purported incident is going viral on social media, where the Samajwadi Party candidate from Budaun...
AAP alleges bid to encroach upon Delhi govt’s jurisdiction
After Delhi LG VK Saxena wrote to the Centre alleging that the Arvind Kejriwal government is trying to “influence” the justice delivery system, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has hit back saying courts are the last resort as the officers do not follow ministers’ directions. The AAP government...
Kangana calls Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose India’s first PM
Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, who is a Lok Sabha candidate from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, called Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as independent India’s first Prime Minister. The video of Ranaut making the statement at a press event quickly gained traction among the netizens who have started to troll the actress....
Buzz about Robert Vadra contesting from Amethi
The media got the first glimpse of Robert Vadra when he accompanied Rahul Gandhi in 2004 to be a witness to the latter’s nomination process. Since then, people have been used to seeing the ‘jija’ who would restrict himself to a few visits and seldom spoke to the media....
ED accuses Soren of creating parallel evidences
The Enforcement Directorate, in its chargesheet filed in the Jharkhand land scam case, has said former chief minister Hemant Soren first denied the documents, then lied, created “false and parallel evidences” to evade probe, mislead investigators and tamper with evidence. According to the agency’s chargesheet, known as a prosecution...
Mass resignations jolt Chirag Paswan ahead of Modi rally
Days after Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) announced candidates for all the five seats in Bihar, at least 22 leaders from the primary membership of LJP. One of the leaders accused chief Chirag Paswan of “nepotism”. Party’s organisational secretary Ravindra Singh, who wanted to contest elections from Vaishali, made...
Storm over Sujewala’s ‘sexist, misogynistic’ remarks on Hema Malini
The Bharatiya Janata Party launched a scathing attack on Congress MP Randeep Surjewala for his ‘vile sexist comment’ against the saffron camp’s MP Hema Malini. However, the grand old party has claimed that only selectively parts of the speech were put out by the BJP. Congress MP Randeep Surjewala...
Sanjay Nirupam, Cong in war of words over ‘expulsion’
A day after being expelled from Congress for ‘indiscipline’, Sanjay Nirupam on Thursday said the disciplinary action against him by the grand old party came following his resignation from the party’s primary membership. The Congress on Wednesday expelled the Maharashtra leader from the party for six years for making...
Sanjay Singh bail comes as big relief for AAP
The release of Sanjay Singh on bail has come as a boon to the Aam Aadmi Party in its darkest hour, which welcomed the leader with massive celebrations as he walked out of Delhi’s Tihar Jail on Wednesday. His first stop was chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence, to meet...
ED levels kickback charges against Kejriwal
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal demanded kickbacks from the so-called South Group and his AAP was involved in money laundering, the ED has said in reply to the leader’s plea challenging his arrest in a case related to a now-scrapped liquor policy for the national capital. The Enforcement Directorate,...
Defamation notice to Atishi over claim of BJP ‘offer’
The BJP’s Delhi unit has sent a defamation notice to senior AAP leader Atishi and demanded a public apology for her claim that the saffron party approached her through a “very close” person to join it. A day earlier, the Delhi minister claimed that four senior AAP leaders, including...
Kejriwal has notorious neighbours in Thar jail
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was sent to Tihar jail for a 14-day judicial custody on Monday in connection with the Excise Policy case, is surrounded by notorious neighbours – an underworld don, a terrorist and a gangster – in the central prison. According to media reports, Don...
Manmohan Singh set to retire from RS after 33 years
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh will end his 33-year-long parliamentary innings in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. As many as nine union ministers and 44 others end their Upper House tenure with the veteran Congress leader. Singh’s exit comes at a time when the former party chief Sonia Gandhi...
Atishi claims she, other leaders will be arrested soon
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) minister Atishi Marlena on Tuesday, during her ‘explosive expose, claimed that party leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj, Durgesh Pathak, Raghav Chadha and herself would be “arrested in the coming two months before the Lok Sabha elections”. She also claimed that she was told “that in the next...
Maneka Gandhi says ‘happy to be In BJP’ after son denied ticket
Days after BJP MP Varun Gandhi was denied a ticket from his constituency Pilibhit, his mother and BJP MP Maneka Gandhi, on her 10-day visit to Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur, broke silence and expressed happiness her happiness to be a part of the party. “I am very happy that I...
