Politics
Delhi minister says tax notices to gaming firms will finish them
Delhi Finance Minister Atishi on Saturday said tax evasion notices worth Rs 1.5-lakh crore to online gaming companies will finish them and vowed to seek their withdrawal at the GST Council meeting during the day. She said the sector employed over 50,000 youths and attracted Rs 17,000 crore foreign...
BJP accuses Kharge of false propaganda on budget cuts
The BJP on Friday accused Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge of running a ”false propaganda” about MGNREGA budget cuts, and said the Narendra Modi government has repeatedly revised the budget estimates to meet the growing demand for work under the rural job scheme. In a post on X on Friday,...
Thakur’s jibe against Kejriwal on corruption
Union minister Anurag Thakur on Friday hit out at AAP convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying that earlier he used to stage sit-in protests against corruption, but he was now holding agitations to save his “corrupt friends”. His statement comes a day after AAP workers held protests...
Stalin rejects Modi charge of temple encroachments
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for alleging that the DMK regime has “encroached” temples in the state and dismissed the accusation as a lie. Addressing an event in Chennai on Thursday to mark the culmination of year-long events to mark the 200th...
5-day ED custody for Sanjay Singh in excise case
Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday sent AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) till October 10 in connection with the money laundering case linked with the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy. Sanjay Singh was arrested after the Enforcement Directorate raided his premises...
CEC says money power, freebies to be on special radar
The Election Commission is fully committed to delivering free, fair, transparent and inducement-free elections, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Thursday. A 17-member team headed by the CEC is currently in the city to assess the poll preparedness in Telangana and, as part of that, Rajiv Kumar held...
Cong, BJP poster war over Modi, Rahul characterisation
Congress and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) engaged in a poster war on social media as both national parties gear up for assembly elections in five states and 2024 Lok Sabha polls. X, formerly Twitter, account of Congress on Wednesday posted a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Waste of agencies’ time, says Kejriwal
AAP convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said all the cases filed against his party leaders are “false”, asserting that probing these cases is a waste of time of the Centre and its agencies. Answering a question over the Supreme Court’s observations on the bail application...
ED move for naming AAP as ‘accused’ in excise scam
Reliable legal sources close to CNN-News 18 has learned that there are ongoing deliberations among Enforcement Directorate whether AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) will be named as an accused in the Delhi liquor scam case. This is said to be in ED’s plans after the Supreme Court asked why the...
BRS contests Modi’s claim on alliance in 2018
Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks that he nipped in the bud the Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s desire to be a part of NDA, BRS Working President KT Rama Rao has said in fact it was the other way around and the saffron...
Sanjay Singh’s family claims nothing seized in raid
Reacting to the ED’s action against the 51-year-old Aam Aadmi Party leader and MP Sanjay Singh on Wednesday, his family said that the probe agency officials “failed” to find anything during the 10-hour-long searches and called the case “fake”. When asked by the media about the arrest of his...
Kharge on why Cong wants census of backward classes
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said his party wants a census of the backward classes as the move will provide exact details about their status and help in taking measures for their welfare. He slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for accusing the Congress of trying to divide the...
Pawar says Rahul will one day lead India
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that after Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Congress leader was being taken seriously and someday he would provide leadership to the nation. Speaking during an interaction at the India Today Conclave here, he reiterated that there was no...
Mann calls emergency cabinet meeting on SYL canal
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann called an emergency meeting of his cabinet at his residence here on Thursday, official sources said. Though no official agenda of the meeting has been released, the council of ministers is likely to discuss the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal issue, they said. The...
Cong row over population-based quota suggestion
Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi on Tuesday landed in a tight spot after his social media post apparently raised questions on the caste-based survey. However, he later deleted the post and clarified that he and his party will continue to support the caste-based survey. In a post on X, formerly...
Rahul says Modi accepted his charge of BJP, BRS ‘rishta’
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Tuesday claimed the prime minister has “openly accepted” what he had said at a rally last month that the BRS means “BJP Rishtedaar Samiti”, after Narendra Modi stated that he had rejected Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s request to join the NDA. Gandhi also...
Bihar leader claims 80% of survey subjects BJP supporters
Bihar BJP president Samrat Choudhary on Tuesday said he saw “80 per cent supporters” of his party in the findings of the caste survey released by the Nitish Kumar government the day before. Addressing a press conference at the state BJP headquarters here, Chaudhary also alleged that the report...
TMC Krishi Bhavan march leaders detained
Delhi had an eventful start to the week as arch rivals BJP and Trinamool Congress descended on the national capital to battle it out over MGNREGS funds. While the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC accused the Centre of neglecting Bengal, the BJP pointed to corruption in the state to justify the...
