Sonia Gandhi admitted to Ganga Ram Hospital due to food poisoning
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Monday due to food poisoning. According to the doctors, her condition has significantly improved since yesterday evening. She is expected to be discharged tomorrow, reports...
Media can’t be prosecution, judge, executioner: Tharoor on wife’s death
New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday targeted the media for its reportage in the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar and asserted that he had nothing to hide in the matter. Sunanda Pushkar was found dead at a suite...
Delhi BJP to lodge complaint with EC against AAP
File Pic New Delhi: The Delhi BJP on Tuesday stepped up its attack on the AAP, saying it will lodge a complaint with the Election Commission for the party's alleged involvement in corruption cases and seek its derecognition. The saffron party's...
AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj gives live demonstration of EVM tampering in Delhi Vidhan Sabha House!
New Delhi: The Delhi Vidhan Sabha saw a well planned and orchestrated session where first the Speaker allowed discussion on the subject of EVM tampering and then Aam Aadmi Party MLA, Saurabh Bharadwaj, who was a technocrat by profession before...
Triple Talaq: Can’t violate human rights in name of personal law, says Allahabad High Court
New Delhi: Amid the raging debate on Triple Talaq, the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday said the basic human rights of Muslim women cannot be violated in the name of “personal law”. The bench observed that the practice of Triple Talaq...
Unprecedented: Supreme Court sentences sitting W.B. Judge Karnan to jail for 6 months!
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India created history on Tuesday by holding sitting Calcutta High Court judge C.S. Karnan guilty of contempt of court and punishing him with six month jail. Karnan, who was to retire on June 11, will...
NEET dress code row: 4 school teachers in Kerala suspended
Kannur: Four school teachers in Kerala suspended over 'dress code harassment' during the NEET medical exam in Kannur. The move comes after angry parents hurt over the manner in which their daughters were forced to remove their clothes, including inner wear,...
I know your every move, I’m treading cautiously: Kapil Mishra tells Kejriwal
New Delhi: Sacked AAP minister Kapil Mishra, who has levelled allegations of graft against Kejriwal and minister Satyendar Jain, has also said the following: -- He had received 211 "corruption-related" complaints against the party and the government since last evening. -- "What...
Big revelation at 2 pm today, promises Kejriwal
New Delhi: To begin with, AAP receives an Income Tax notice on a Rs 2 crore donation. The Delhi CM's aides have promised a big revelation at 2 pm today when the Delhi assembly sits for a special one-day session called...
India’s GDP To Grow At 7.5% in 2018: UN report
New Delhi: If you've missed this, here's a repost. The Indian economy will grow 7.5 per cent next year by virtue of consumption revival and higher infrastructure spending, says a report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and...
SC holds Vijay Mallya guilty of contempt of court, summons him on July 10
New Delhi: The Supreme Court says it has held Vijay Mallya guilty for contempt of court on two grounds and directs him to appear before it on July 10. Mallya, 61, who fled from India last year, owes over Rs 9000...
Justice Karnan ‘sentences’ CJI to 5 years in prison
New Delhi: Calcutta High Court's Justice CS Karnan on Monday "sentenced" Chief Justice of India JS Khehar and six other Supreme Court judges to five years rigorous imprisonment for finding them guilty under Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of...
I’m not a BJP agent, says sacked AAP minister
New Delhi: Sacked Aam Aadmi Party minister Kapil Mishra has refuted claims by the party that he is acting at the behest of the BJP against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Challenging the AAP leaders to expel him from the party,...
Congress demands strict action against Kejriwal under Corruption Act
New Delhi: Following Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Kapil Mishra's startling claims against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Congress Party on Monday demanded strict action against the former under Prevention of Corruption Act. Maken further stated that he has written...
Don’t take my tears as a sign of weakness, says Gorakhpur IPS officer
Gorakhpur: IPS officer Charu Nigam, who broke down on camera after BJP MLA Radha Mohan Das Aggarwal got into a heated argument with her in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's parliamentary constituency Gorakhpur on Sunday, posted a note on Facebook, saying...
Sohail Mahmood to replace Basit as Pak’s envoy to India
New Delhi: Career Pakistani diplomat Sohail Mahmood is set to become Islamabad's new High Commissioner to New Delhi. Mahmood replaces Abdul Basit, who was appointed as Pakistan's envoy to India in 2014. Mahmood is currently the Ambassador of Pakistan in Turkey...
SBI cuts rates for home loans under Rs 30 lakh
New Delhi: India's largest lender SBI on Monday announced a steep reduction of 25 basis points in affordable housing loans to 8.35% for new borrowers.
Under the new government scheme, loans under Rs 30 lakh qualify for affordable housing. For male borrowers,...
BJP behind Kapil Mishra’s allegations: AAP unites behind Kejriwal
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party briefing on former minister Kapil Mishra's allegations of graft by Arvind Kejriwal. AAP's Sanjay Singh holds a press conference to refute the charges and says the party is behind Arvind Kejriwal. "There's no question of Arvind...
Kapil Mishra gives ‘proof’ of Kejriwal’s corruption to ACB
New Delhi: After making serious allegations of corruption against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, sacked Delhi Water Minister Kapil Mishra on Monday visited the Anti-Corruption Bureau office here and gave more evidence of wrong doing by the ruling AAP chief...
GST on track for July 1 rollout: Jaitley
New Delhi: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is on schedule for implementation from July 1 and will not lead to any significant increase in prices of goods although cost of some services may see a marginal hike, Finance Minister...
Lalu Prasad Yadav will have to face trial in fodder scam: SC
New Delhi: No relief for former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav, who will have to face trial in the Rs 900 fodder scam. The Supreme Court has overturned the Jharkhand Court's verdict dropping the criminal conspiracy charge against the RJD...
