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2 MPs, 3 MLAs resign over Maratha quota
The Maratha quota row has once again stirred up Maharashtra, with two MPs and one MLA of the Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra tendering their resignation on Tuesday as protests in some of the regions turned violent. In a small village of Antarwali-Sarati in Jalna district of Marathwada, quota...
AAP fears Kejriwal’s arrest when he goes to ED
The Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday claimed there are apprehensions that the Enforcement Directorate will arrest Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on November 2 after questioning him in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam. The ruling party in Delhi also alleged that the BJP...
Opposition leaders claim phone hacking bid
Multiple opposition MPs – the Congress’ Shashi Tharoor, Priyanka Chaturvedi of the Shiv Sena (UBT), and AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi – have claimed messages from Apple warning of “state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise” their phones. Sources told NDTV three people in Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s office received similar...
AAP plans review plea against Sisodia bail rejection
The Aam Aadmi Party is planning to file a review petition against the Supreme Court’s decision rejecting former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s bail plea, party sources said on Monday. In a setback to Sisodia, the top court earlier in the day rejected his regular bail pleas in...
Naidu granted interim bail on medical grounds
Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has been granted a four-week interim bail in the skill development scam case. According to sources, the bail has been been granted by the High Court on medical grounds. Former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who is lodged in the central jail...
Digvijaya Singh predicts Rajasthan-like raids in MP
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday claimed that central agencies will carry out raids in election-bound Madhya Pradesh similar to the ones they recently conducted in Rajasthan, which also goes to polls next month. Earlier this week, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the premises of Rajasthan Congress president Govind...
KCR warns voters Cong will abolish welfare schemes
Telangana Chief Minister and BRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday warned voters that the Congress, if voted to power in Telangana in the November 30 Assembly elections will abolish welfare schemes such as Rythu Bandhu and free power to farmers. Speaking at a rally here, Rao, also known...
30 relatives of leaders in fray in Rajasthan polls
The Congress and the BJP – the two main contenders in the November 25 assembly elections in Rajasthan – have fielded at least 29 candidates who are kin of leaders or belong to political families so far. Of the 200 assembly constituencies, the BJP has so far announced candidates...
NCP team seeks governor’s intervention in quota stir
A delegation of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) on Sunday met Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais urging him to direct the state government to intervene in the quota agitation by the Maratha community. The delegation comprised NCP working president Supriya Sule, state NCP chief Jayant Patil, and party...
SP-Cong agree to call truce in INDIA interest
The leadership of the Congress and the Samajwadi party have finally decided that the misunderstanding at the state level should not reflect on the national agenda of the two parties that are standing united under the banner of INDIA bloc. The two parties, according to sources, have decided to...
Kharge completes first year on a high note
As Mallikarjun Kharge completed one year in office as Congress President on October 26, the party has been able to rejuvenate its cadres with back-to-back victories in Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh and also has been able to hold its flock together. Kharge was elected as the Congress President in...
Modi cancels campaign trip to Mizoram
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cancelled his planned campaign trip to Mamit in poll-bound Mizoram on October 30, a senior BJP leader said here on Saturday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will fill in for Modi, but his date of campaigning is yet to be decided, state BJP media...
Another tussle brewing between AAP and LG
Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Friday approved a proposal of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to terminate the services of all civil defence volunteers with effect from November 1, with AAP government sources saying they will approach the Supreme Court if this happens, setting off a fresh tussle between...
Buzz over old Fadnavis video promising ‘return’
The Maharashtra BJP on Friday posted a four-year-old video of its leader and former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis announcing that he will return to helm the state, prompting speculation in political circles. “I will return for building a new Maharashtra,” the state BJP posted in the evening on social...
Mahua denies receiving expensive gifts from Hiranandani
Darshan Hiranandani, the CEO of the real estate and infrastructure company Hiranandani Group, reportedly gifted Mahua Moitra “only a scarf, some lipsticks and makeup items”, and not a list of expensive presents as claimed by advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey. But Darshan’s car does “pick...
New CBI date to Harish Rawat to give voice samples likely
Former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat has sought a fresh date from the CBI to give his voice samples in the 2016 ‘sting operation’ case citing health issues, a request that will be considered by the agency, officials said Friday. Earlier in the day, the CBI issued a notice...
Israel extends ground operations in Gaza
Gaza is bracing for a deadlier wave of destruction with the Israeli forces expanding their ground operations in the blockaded strip ruled by Hamas, a Palestinian group that carried out the October 7 terror attacks in Israel. “Following the series of strikes of the last days, the ground forces...
ED arrests Bengal minister in ration scam
Bengal Minister Jyotipriyo Mallick was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an alleged case of corruption in rationing distribution early Friday morning. Meanwhile, Kolkata is decked up for the grand gala pujo carnival today, where over 100 Durga idols will be paraded, following which, they will...
