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New CBI cases against Lalu, family followed by raids
Weeks after he was granted bail in a fodder scam case, Lalu Prasad Yadav has been charged in a fresh corruption case over alleged irregularities in recruitment between 2004 and 2009 when he was Railways Minister. Besides Lalu Yadav, his family members have also been named accused in the...
Azam Khan walks out of jail after 27 months
Amid much fanfare and equally glaring political questions, SP leader Azam Khan finally walked out of jail after a long 27 months. The Samajwadi Party MLA from Rampur (Sadar) assembly seat, Khan was released after the Supreme Court had granted him interim bail in the 89th case registered against...
Mann rules out special status for convicted Sidhu in jail
With the Supreme Court sentencing Navjot Singh Sidhu to one year of rigorous imprisonment in a 34-year-old road rage case, the former cricketer is likely to be lodged in the Patiala central jail even as Punjab’s Bhagwant Mann government has ruled out any “special arrangements” in the prison for...
Mamata threat to expose LF rule as Oppn pressure mounts
Opposition parties of West Bengal on Thursday demanded the resignation of Education Minister Partha Chatterjee and his deputy Paresh Chandra Adhikari from their posts in the wake of the CBI investigation in the SSC scam, even as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee threatened to expose illegal recruitments made during the...
Agra mayor wants Aurangzeb plaques removed
Agra mayor Naveen Jain on Wednesday said he, in the capacity of the national president of the mayor’s council, has appealed to all mayors to remove all plaques of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb from all places. The mayor said, “Aurangzeb was a cruel ruler who destroyed Hindu temples and also...
Another hike takes LPG price beyond Rs1,000
The price of 14.2-kg domestic liquefied petroleum gas or LPG cylinder has crossed Rs 1,000 in most of the places in India from Thursday. The oil marketing companies have increased the price of cooking gas by Rs 3.5. This was the second hike in the price of domestic cooking...
BJP to woo Jats, Vaishyas in Haryana for 2024
With the Bharatiya Janata Party pulling up its socks for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and adjacent assembly polls, its Haryana unit is bustling to woo the Jats in the state. The party is drawing up plans to woo the key community, News18 has learnt. A senior BJP leader...
AAP’s Uttarakhand CM face quits
Two senior AAP leaders in Uttarakhand — Colonel Ajay Kothiyal (retd) who was chief ministerial candidate in 2022 assembly polls and former working president of its state unit Bhoopesh Upadhyay — resigned from the party on Wednesday. Both the leaders tendered their resignations separately to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)...
Freed Rajiv Gandhi killer, mother meet MK Stalin
AG Perarivalan — one of the seven convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination case whose release was ordered by the Supreme Court today — and his mother Arputhammal met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin in Chennai this evening. Mr Stalin tweeted a video of the meeting....
Hardik Patel finally quits Cong, may be headed for BJP
After months of back and forth over infighting in the Gujarat unit, Patidar leader Hardik Patel finally quit the Congress on Wednesday in yet another blow for the Grand Old Party just months ahead of the assembly elections in the state. Announcing his decision on Twitter with a resignation...
Protesting Punjab farmers serve ultimatum to Mann govt
Punjab farmers sat on a protest near the Chandigarh-Mohali border on Tuesday after being stopped from heading to the state capital to press the AAP government with various demands, including a bonus on wheat and beginning paddy sowing from June 10. In an ultimatum to the Punjab government, farmer leader...
CBI arrests close associate of Chidambaram’s son
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested S Bhaskar Raman, a close associate of Congress leader Karti P Chidambaram in an ongoing visa corruption case following questioning late last night, sources said. The CBI has filed a fresh case against Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram, son of...
China jet crash sabotage, suggests Black Box data
Flight data from a black box recovered from the China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed in March indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed the plane, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with US officials’ preliminary assessment. A Western official told Reuters that the focus...
Export curbs relaxed for outbound wheat consignments
The government on Tuesday announced a relaxation on its orders restricting wheat exports. It has been decided that wherever wheat consignments have been handed over to Customs for examination and registered into their systems on or before May 13, such consignments would be allowed for export, according to an official...
RJD terms Rahul’s comments on regional parties ‘bizarre’
The Rashtriya Janata Dal on Monday asked Rahul Gandhi to look at recent electoral history of regional parties putting up a strong fight against the BJP as it took a swipe at him for his critical comments aimed at them, saying the Congress leader’s claims were “bizarre” and not...
CBI searches Chidambaram’s premises linked to son
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting searches at multiple residential and official premises of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Sivagangai in Tamil Nadu, sources said today. The searches are reportedly being conducted at around seven premises of the former Union Minister across these cities,...
Mehbooba says ‘The Kashmir Files’ behind violence
Days after the killing of Kashmiri pandit government employee Rahul Bhat, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday blamed the Vivek Agnihotri directorial ‘The Kashmir Files’ for ‘triggering’ violence in the union territory, while also claiming that she created a safe environment for Kashmiri Pandits during...
SC pulls up bank for forcing arbitrary settlement on farmers
The Supreme Court has pulled up the Bank of Maharashtra for challenging an order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court directing it to accept the One Time Settlement (OTS) proposal of farmers and issue them sanction letters, saying the bank does not go after big fish but is only...
