The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has initiated a probe into bribery charges alleged by sacked Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on Monday. Mishra has also appeared before ACB to hand over additional evidence in support of his claims on Monday. The probe began based on Mishra’s complaint[Read More…]
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Jethmalani-AAP fee controversy: Why should Kejriwal pay the bills, asks Sisodia
AAP government in Delhi has defended its decision to pay from the state exchequer the fees of senior advocate Ram Jethmalani on Tuesday. Jethmalani is handling the defamation case filed by none other than union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley against CM Arvind Kejriwal in the court. After much controversy over[Read More…]
AAP ‘youth leader’ arrested for theft in Delhi
In connection with the robbery which took place on March 12 in east Delhi, six persons including an AAP youth wing leader has been booked. JCP Ravira Yadav says that the arrested have been identified as Najeeb, his brother Naved, Jitendra a.k.a. Jhonny, Yusuf a.k.a. Faisal, Nadeem a.k.a Furkan and[Read More…]
Hazare slams Kejriwal’s demand for paper ballots
Delhi will be comparable to London: Arvind Kejriwal
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday promised in a highly driven speech that he would alter the city’s civic management and make it “comparable to London within just one year if AAP wins the municipal polls”. The Municipal elections are expected to happen this coming April. Kejriwal attacks the Congress and BJP[Read More…]
Kejriwal seeks bank accounts details of FM Jaitley
Arvind Kejriwal to donate for Irom Sharmila’s election campaign
Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday declared that he will be donating Rs 50,000 to activist Irom Sharmila’s election campaign in upcoming polls in Manipur. Delhi’s chief minister not only donated himself but also asked the public to also help her party by donating generously. “I am donating Rs 50,000 as my[Read More…]
Capt Amarinder promises to bring back innocent Sikh youth languishing in jails
Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh on Thursday promised to bring back the innocent Sikh youths languishing in jails around the country if voted to the power. “Cancellation of all false FIRs against Sikh youths lodged in prisons around the country and they will be brought back to Punjab,” chief ministerial face[Read More…]
MLA Preneet Kaur says Kejriwal brought outsiders to show his strength
Congress leader and MLA Preneet Kaur today slammed both AAP and SAD as organisations for having radical ideologies. He claims that AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal brought outsiders for his rally in Patiala district. Preneet Kaur, who is campaigning for her husband Capt Amarinder Singh and other party candidates in[Read More…]
Manish Sisodia appreciates the ‘new administrator’
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday said that ‘the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government is ‘comfortable’ with new administrator’, praising the Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal. Sisodia said Baijal had previously worked together in several departments in Delhi and have the first-hand information of the problems faced by the national capital.[Read More…]
Kejriwal’s relative investigated by police in corruption case
Allow me to repeat bribery remarks: Kejriwal to Election Commission
Days after the Election Commission censured him for birbery remarks, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday told the poll panel that his remarks were aimed at containing graft and sought a review of its order to allow him to repeat the comments. Claiming that Election Commission misinterpreted his comments,[Read More…]
Kejriwal’s special manifesto for differently-abled persons
As the Punjab polles inch closer, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday released a special manifesto of the party for differently-abled persons in Punjab. Assuring a hike in monthly pension to Rs 2,500. He addressed a plethora of differently-abled persons and said, “Pension will be raised (up to Rs[Read More…]
Delhi Police arrested over 120 BJP councilors protesting outside Kejriwal’s residence
Friday: The Delhi Police arrested over 120 BJP councilors from outside CM Arvind Kejriwal’s residence, where they were staging a protest. The protestor were forcibly removed by the police and the detained were taken to Civil Lines and Maurice Nagar police station. The protest demanded the release of funds for salaries[Read More…]
Party has no money to fight Punjab, Goa elections: Arvind Kejriwal
Weeks ahead of assembly polls, Aam Aadmi Party convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday claimed that his “honest” party does not have money to fight the upcoming assembly elections in Punjab and Goa. “We don’t have a single penny to contest Punjab and Goa polls. Our bank[Read More…]
Demonetisation is huge scam: Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday alleged demonetistaion of ₹500 and ₹1,000 is huge scam and it should be roll back immediately. “Before the PM announced the move on Tuesday, the BJP and its friends had been alerted and they had already stashed their cash,” he said. He further[Read More…]
Telephone conversations of judges are tapped, alleges Kejriwal; govt denies
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday alleged that phones of members of the Indian judiciary are being tapped and their conversations are being monitored. “I don’t know if it is true or not, but if this is true, then it’s dangerous. Where is the independence of the judiciary then?”[Read More…]
Arvind Kejriwal praises PM Modi for surgical strikes
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who always finds one reason or the other to criticise Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ‘saluted’ PM’s‘decisiveness’ in ordering last Thursday’s surgical strikes on terrorist camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan. Kejriwal said that he may disagree with PM on various issues but he wants[Read More…]
Three chikungunya deaths in Delhi as ministers remain elusive
Delhi reels under the unexpected or rather ‘much’ expected bout of chikungunya, dengue and other mosquito vector borne diseases. Till now, chikungunya which is a “non-fatal” disease has claimed three lives on Monday and at least 10 people have died of dengue and malaria. As Delhi hospitals overflow with patients,[Read More…]
Ratan Tata’s Twitter account hacked; spurious tweet sent
On Friday a joke on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mukesh Ambani made by one of the popular parody account on Twitter ‘History of India’ was shared by none other than industrialist Ratan Tata. Twitterati was little amazed to see this as the business magnet is not very much active[Read More…]
Politicians, Twitterati slam Modi government over railways surge pricing
After the government introduced the surge pricing system on the Rajdhani, Duronto and Shatabdi trains on Wednesday, there was slamming from politicians on this move. The decision also experienced a wave of anger from Twitterati. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal opposed the surge pricing and demanded that it should be[Read More…]
Swaraj, Kejriwal, Mamata to attend Mother Teresa’s canonization
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will lead a 12-member delegation to represent India at canonisation ceremony of Mother Teresa in Vatican on September 4. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said two delegations led by chief ministers had sought political clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs to attend the[Read More…]
Jung panel to probe AAP files, Kejriwal alleges “witch hunting”
Najeeb Jung, Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor (LG) has escalated the tiff between the Centre and Delhi’s AAP government by setting up a three-member committee to look into all 400 files obtained from various departments. These contain decisions taken by the AAP government without LG’s prior sanction. The committee consists of three[Read More…]