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Ethics panel chief disclaims knowledge of Hiranandani letter
Vinod Sonkar, Chairman of the Ethics Committee of Parliament, told News18 that they are yet to receive any letter from Darshan Hiranandani, the CEO of real estate-to-energy group Hiranandani, against TMC MP Mahua Moitra. According to news agency PTI, Hiranandani admitted at using Moitra’s Parliamentary login to ask questions...
Call for conduct code for ED, IT ahead of polls
Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot on Thursday alleged the BJP-led Centre is misusing probe agencies to target opposition leaders even after the enforcement of the model code of conduct, and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Election Commission to intervene. Addressing a press conference here, the Rajasthan chief...
SP releases second candidates list for MP
The Samajwadi Party (SP) has announced its second list of 22 candidates for the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh amid strained ties with its INDIA grouping ally Congress over the formation of an alliance in the state. The SP announced its second list late on Wednesday night. It has,...
BRS govt remote controlled by Modi: Priyanka
AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday alleged that the BRS government in Telangana is being run by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a remote control. Addressing an election rally here, she claimed that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s regime failed to keep up its promise of providing...
BJP taunts Sharad Pawar over support to Hamas
Slamming Sharad Pawar for supporting Palestine in conflict with Israel, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said he thinks the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief will send his daughter and Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule to Gaza to fight for Palestine-based terror group Hamas. Asked about Pawar’s...
Another batch of pleas against ED in Supreme Court
The extraordinary powers of the Enforcement Directorate will come under the scanner of the Supreme Court again with the judges agreeing to hear another batch of petitions challenging them. In July last year, the top court had upheld the powers granted to the Central agency to search, seize and...
AIMIM leader moves court against Rahul over dog’s name
An AIMIM leader has approached a local court in Prayagraj against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for gifting a dog named ‘Noorie’ to his mother Sonia Gandhi, saying the name hurts his religious sentiments. Mohammad Farhan said the dog’s name has hurt his religious sentiments as the word ‘Noorie’ is...
Raghubar Das, Reddy Nallu made governors
Former Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das and BJP leader Indra Sena Reddy Nallu have been appointed as the governors of Odisha and Tripura, respectively, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique on Wednesday. The communique added that President Droupadi Murmu is pleased to make the appointments that will take effect...
Akhilesh says MP Cong-SP impasse ominous for 2024
The apparent breakdown of alliance talks between Congress and Samajwadi Party in Madhya Pradesh could impact the INDIA alliance plans in Uttar Pradesh in 2024, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has said, adding that his party could fight the BJP on all 80 seats. SP has already declared nine candidates...
Sena MLAs: SC allows Speaker last chance for decision
A final chance has been given to Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar by the Supreme Court to set a realistic timeline for deciding the cross-petitions filed by the rival factions of the Shiv Sena seeking disqualification of each other’s MLAs following a split in the party. An apex court...
SC reserves verdict on Sisodia’s bail pleas in CBI, ED cases
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on the regular bail pleas of former deputy chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia in corruption and money laundering cases arising out of the Delhi excise policy ‘scam’. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti...
BJP alleges 60% corruption by Siddaramaiah govt
It was the Congress’s ‘40% corruption campaign’ ahead of the elections that led to the defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and brought the former to power. The same anti-corruption campaign – at ‘60%’ under the Congress regime, according to the BJP – has put the CM Siddaramaiah-led...
Biden’s Israel, Jordan trip falters
US President Joe Biden’s wartime trip to Israel and Jordan faltered before it got off the ground Tuesday, after the Amman leg was canceled following a strike on a Gaza hospital that killed hundreds of people. The trip was always set to be the riskiest of Biden’s presidency as...
Kamal Nath says INDIA Bloc focus is Lok Sabha polls
Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Monday said the focus of the INDIA bloc is on Lok Sabha elections and it’s fine if this coalition happens in the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls. Polling for 230 seats in MP will be held in a single phase on November 17 and...
Partition was a ‘historical mistake’, says Owaisi
AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said the partition of India should never have happened and called it a ‘historical mistake.’ Addressing a press conference, the Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP said historically this was one country and unfortunately it was divided, which should not have happened. “Historically, this was...
Khattar offers dialogue to Mann on SYL issue
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday reached out to his Punjab counterpart on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link issue, making an offer of a dialogue to resolve “any hurdle or obstacles” hindering the canal construction. Haryana is willing to engage in a dialogue, notwithstanding the Punjab government’s stand that...
BJP’s electoral worship: Navratri Sammelan
In poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, where the difference in the number of seats between the Congress and BJP was wafer thin in 2018, the saffron party this time is using the ongoing Navratri week to maximise its outreach with a goal to win 65,000 booths. Starting at 12 pm on...
Hiranandani denies ‘cash for query’ involvement
The Hiranandani group has distanced itself from the row that has broken out after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey wrote to Lok Sabha speaker demanding action against Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra. The corporate group gave a statement in response to a query from Moneycontrol. “These...
