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Sisodia challenges arrest, CBI’s probe in Supreme Court
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today challenged his arrest by the CBI in the Supreme Court. Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, after hearing Mr Sisodia’s lawyer Abhishek Singhvi, asked why they did not go to the high court before coming to the Supreme Court directly. Singhvi cited the Supreme...
AAP weighing options if Sisodia is denied bail
After deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia was taken into five days’ CBI remand on Monday in the Delhi liquor scam case, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is hoping that the cabinet minister, who has been the backbone of the government, gets bail once his custody ends. Sisodia is the...
Bengal Governor changes tack to follow predecessor’s line
With a war of words erupting between the West Bengal government and Governor CV Ananda Bose, speculations of a rift are running high as political experts have raised questions about whether the latter is following the footsteps of former governor Jagdeep Dhankar. Dispute between the Governor and West Bengal...
Uddhav says he has no faith in ‘bogus’ Election Commission
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray on Monday attacked the Election Commission for declaring the party faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as the real Shiv Sena and allotting it the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol. Thackeray said he no longer had trust in the apex poll body,...
Seizure of digital device led to Sisodia’s arrest
A digital device seized from Delhi excise department led the CBI to unearth the alleged role of Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the liquor policy case, sources from the agency have said. According to sources in the central agency, a digital device was seized during a search at...
Maulana Azad missing in Cong ad, party apologises
After facing a backlash from several Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders for missing out on Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s photograph from an ad, Congress on Sunday apologized calling it an “inexcusable slip up”. The full-page newspaper advertisement was for the 85th Congress Plenary Session in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur from February...
Delhi High Court rejects petitions against Agnipath
A batch of petitions challenging the Agnipath scheme for recruitment in the armed forces were today dismissed by the Delhi High Court. The court said that the scheme was made in national interest and to ensure that the armed forces are better equipped. The Agnipath scheme, unveiled in June...
Re-election for MCD Standing Committee members stayed
In a major setback for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Delhi High Court on Saturday stayed the re-election for six members of the Standing Committee of MCD which was scheduled for February 27. The court observed that Mayor Shelly Oberoi did not have the authority to declare such an...
Cong leader defends ‘Modi grave’ remark as political idiom
Congress leader and former MP Udit Raj on Saturday defended the “Modi teri kabar khudegi (Modi your grave will be dug)” remark raised by his party colleagues at the Delhi airport tarmac recently and called it “political language”. He said it was a “rajnaitik kabar (political grave)” they were...
CBI arrests Manish Sisodia after marathon questioning
Manish Sisodia, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, was on Sunday arrested after a marathon eight-hour questioning by the CBI in the alleged liquor policy scam. “Even if I am in jail for 7-8 months, don’t feel sorry for me, be proud. PM Modi is afraid of Arvind Kejriwal, so...
Union minister’s car attacked in Bengal’s Dinhata
Union Minister of State for Home Nisith Pramanik’s car was allegedly attacked by supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress at Dinhata in West Bengal’s Coochbehar district on Saturday. The car’s windshield was cracked in the stone pelting allegedly by TMC supporters who also showed black flags to the minister. Pramanik said,...
Kejriwal govt asks officials not to take orders from L-G
The AAP government on Friday asked officials to stop taking directives from Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena and report any such orders from him to their respective ministers, a move that may trigger a fresh tussle between the ruling party and the LG office. According to an official...
Mann govt under fire for law and order lapses
The alleged inaction of the Punjab Police in two major law and order incidents in less than a month have fuelled the opposition’s charge against the Bhagwant Mann-led government, of “encouraging” radical elements in the state. The so-called supporters of the radical preacher, Amritpal Singh – who has openly...
Bihar parties launch campaign for 2024 polls
Bihar will witness a major show of strength between the ruling Mahagathbandhan and opposition NDA today as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the BJP’s principal strategist, criss-cross the state as they campaign for their respective political fronts. Kumar will hold a joint rally of...
Khera says Cong will continue to protect democratic principles
“Nobody can scare us, we are fearless” and will continue to protect democratic principles, Congress leader Pawan Khera said on Friday, a day after his arrest and interim bail in connection with an FIR over his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Khera, who reached here to participate...
Pawar blames BJP for communal colour in political discourse
Ahead of the Kasba Peth and Chinchwad assembly bypolls in Pune district, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said the Bharatiya Janata Party gives a communal colour to the political discourse when it is not confident of winning. Talking to reporters here, the senior NCP leader said...
Cong, BJP spar over Pawan Khera’s arrest
A political furore followed Congress leader Pawan Khera’s arrest at Delhi airport on Thursday, after he was deplaned from a flight to Raipur where he was going to attend the party’s plenary session. After its national spokesperson’s arrest, the Congress accused the government of reducing India’s democracy to “Hitlar-shahi” and “dictatorship”....
Cong says steering committee to decide on CWC poll
The Congress on Thursday said all preparations are in place for holding the CWC polls in case the steering committee decides in favour of having the elections for seats in the party’s top decision-making body. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the party president Mallikarjun Kharge-led steering committee will...
