The Bombay High Court on Friday set aside governor’s sanction to prosecute former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan in Adarsh Scam. The senior congress leader had filed a petition terming governor C Vidyasagar Rao’s order of 2016 as “arbitrary, illegal and unjust.” Chavan had alleged that it was passed without[Read More…]
Around 100 swanky statues of renowned personalities are set to come up in different cities of Rajasthan. According to Urban Development and Housing Minister Shrikhand Kriplani, a meeting will be called on December 28 to decide on the names of eminent figures whose statues can be installed in various cities[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley were among the high-profile guests at the wedding reception of star cricketer Virat Kohli and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma here on Thursday. One of the most talked about couple in India, Virat and Anushka, who got married in Tuscany, Italy, on[Read More…]
United Nations: In a rebuff to the US, the UN General Assembly on Thursday, passed by a two-thirds majority, a resolution criticising President Donald Trump‘s decision to unilaterally declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move Washington’s embassy there. India joined the overwhelming Assembly majority to vote for the resolution that[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday alleged that the BJP had conspired with accused persons in the 2G ‘scam’, after a special court acquitted all the accused in the case, including former Telecom Minister A. Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the 2G ‘scam’[Read More…]
In giving a clean chit to former Telecom Minister A Raja, a court on Thursday said there was no evidence to suggest that he was the “mother lode of conspiracy” in the so-called 2G scam created “by artfully arranging a few selected facts and exaggerating things beyond recognition to astronomical[Read More…]
The Congress on Thursday accused the Central government of working for corporates and mismanaging the economy and asked how much black money had been unearthed in the past over three years. Participating in a discussion on supplementary demands for grants (second batch) for 2017-18 in the Lok Sabha, Congress leader[Read More…]
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 2 p.m. on Thursday after Congress leaders asked the BJP to come clear on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks against his predecessor Manmohan Singh and the saffron party’s smear campaign against the UPA in the 2G spectrum case. A Delhi court on Thursday acquitted[Read More…]
New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said the BJP should desist from “smear campaigns” and levelling false accusations as it did in the 2G spectrum case. “After all this smear campaign and election jumlas, see what the court has said. People resort to unfounded allegations against rivals. There may[Read More…]
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday slammed the Congress for treating the 2G spectrum scam case verdict as a “badge of honour”, saying the UPA’s policy of spectrum allocation was “corrupt and dishonest”. “Congress leaders are treating this judgement as some kind of a badge of honour and a certification[Read More…]
Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday expressed concern over “caste, community and cash” gaining prominence in certain sections of public life and said that people of the country expected better performance from the elected representatives in parliament. Naidu, who gave away the 12th Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards,[Read More…]
Polling for the crucial by-election to the Radhakrishnan Nagar (R.K. Nagar) Assembly constituency began on Thursday at 8 a.m. Over two lakh voters are eligible to decide the fate of 59 candidates in one of the smallest constituencies in Tamil Nadu. The by-poll was necessitated following the death of AIADMK[Read More…]
Upbeat over the BJP’s win in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked party MPs not to get distracted by Rahul Gandhi questioning his (Modi’s) credibility and told them to strengthen the organisation at the grassroots by promoting young leaders for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Addressing the BJP[Read More…]
A bill to amend the regulations concerning compensation payable for acquisition of immovable property by the central government for public purpose was moved for passage in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Moving The Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property (Amendment) Bill, 2017, Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said the[Read More…]
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Guna in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday voiced his reservations over cricketer Virat Kohli and Bollywood actress opting for a foreign land as the venue of their marriage. “A big cricketer got married recently. But in such a large country, he could find a[Read More…]
The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed two repealing and amending bills that seek to remove enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become obsolete. Replying to the brief debate, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the bills were “a great initiative to make the country reform[Read More…]
After creating massive support for the BJP but not able to save his face, the saffron brigade is now looking for alternatives to replace septuagenarian Prem Kumar Dhumal, who suffered an abject defeat in the Himachal Pradesh assembly polls. Political observers say though elections were held under the leadership of[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Tuesday to visit coastal villages in Kerala that were ravaged by Cyclone Ockhi. He later visited Tamil Nadu. Modi flew in from Lakshadweep, where the cyclone destroyed properties. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan received the Prime Minister. Gujarat result a ‘massive jolt’ to[Read More…]
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the Gujarat election result has dealt a “massive jolt” to the BJP and raised questions about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s credibility because of his silence on corruption charges including BJP chief Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah’s meteoric business rise. “This election, which Narendra[Read More…]
With the BJP on Monday managing to hold on to power in Gujarat – though with a reduced tally of 99 seats, the Congress, which along with its allies won 80, lost by a margin of less than 1,000 votes in at least three seats. In Botat constituency, Bharatiya Janata[Read More…]
A marked increase of the None Of The Above (NOTA) voters in the Gujarat assembly elections played a significant role in deciding the result as many victories of the ruling BJP, which ended up with 99 seats in the 182-member assembly, were with thin margins, exceeded by these votes. Out[Read More…]
Ahmedabad: Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani, who won the assembly polls from Vadgam in Gujarat, said on Monday that the country is ready for a change in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as the BJP could get only 99 seats despite its repeated claims of winning 150. “The country is ready for[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which lost all 29 seats it contested in the Gujarat Assembly elections questioned why VVPAT slips were not being counted and said that the BJP will be “exposed soon”. AAP Delhi MLA and Chief Spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj told IANS that the BJP was[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday said it has brought the BJP “to its knees” by restricting it to less than 100 seats in Gujarat, and that the election results will have an impact in upcoming polls in other states, including BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The Congress also termed the[Read More…]
Ahmedabad: Four of the six Congress turncoat legislators in Gujarat who had bagged BJP tickets lost at the hustings, while some of the Congress’ prominent state leaders, including Shaktisinh Gohil and Arjun Modhvadia, lost. Of the Congress turncoats, Tejashree Patel lost from Viramgam by about 6,500 votes to Lakhabhai Bharwad; Mansinh[Read More…]
