Jaitley slams Kejriwal, accuses him of falsehood in DDCA controversy
NewDelhi/Nagpur: The BJP came out all guns blazing at the Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday as senior ministers dismissed charges of financial misconduct levelled against finance minister Arun Jaitley and accused Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of using “falsehood” and...
Air India offers job, Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia to dead technician’s kin
Mumbai: Air India Chairman Ashwani Lohani today announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh and a job in the airline to the family of the AI engineer who was killed in a freak accident wherein he got sucked in by...
ED raids Karti Chidambaram’s office in Chennai, seizes files & a laptop
Chennai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday raided the office of Chess Global Advisory Services Private Limited in Chennai which reportedly belongs to Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram. Sources said the raid was conducted...
Gandhigiri In Parliament: PM Offers Glass Of Water To AAP’s Bhagwant Mann
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today offered a glass of water to AAP member Bhagwant Mann, who was protesting in Lok Sabha against the CBI raids at Delhi secretariat. Mr Mann, who was shouting slogans in the Well of the...
SC slaps temporary ban on luxury diesel vehicle sales in Delhi
NewDelhi: The Surpreme Court has ordered a temporary ban on the sale of large diesel cars in New Delhi and hiked a levy on trucks entering the city, as India's highly polluted capital seeks ways to tackle one of its...
Kejriwal Says Documents Seized From His Office Unrelated to CBI’s Probe
NewDelhi/Nagpur: Even as the Central Bureau of Investigation claimed that the raids were on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Principal Secretary Rajender Kumar, the agency did not take any files related to the accused as alleged by the Delhi Chief...
CBI came to my office for DDCA case file which has Arun Jaitley’s name: Kejriwal
File pic New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday claimed that the actual motive behind Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raid in his office was to obtain the file relating to the DDCA issue where Union Finance Minister...
Congress MLA suspended after being filmed watching porn inside assembly
BUBANESWAR: Odisha Assembly speaker Niranjan Pujari on Tuesday suspended Congress MLA Naba Kishore Das for seven days for watching porn clips inside the assembly on his mobile phone on Monday. The speaker sent the matter to ethics committee for further probe. A...
CBI raid has nothing to do with Kejriwal, says Jaitley
Delhi CM says he’s lying in Parliament NewDelhi/Nagpur: The battle between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Union government took a turn for the worse on Tuesday with the CBI raiding his office premises over corruption allegations against his Principal Secretary...
Delhi CM office raided by CBI, Kejriwal accuses PM of cowardice
NewDelhi/Nagpur: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday raided Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's office and sealed it. Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the raid, Kejriwal tweeted, "CBI raids my office. When Narendra Modi couldn't handle me politically, he resorts...
‘Are these children safe now? You have forced them to shiver in the cold’: Delhi HC slams demolition drive
NewDelhi/Nagpur: “What was the tearing hurry to demolish Shakur Basti JJ cluster in December? You really don’t care about the people, you just want to remove them,” a Delhi HC bench hammered away at the Railways after the death of...
Sushma makes statement on Pakistan visit amid uproar
NewDelhi/Nagpur: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday said that the 26/11 Mumbai attack issue was raised during talks with Pakistan. "We raised the 26/11 Mumbai attack issue and asked Pakistan to expedite the trial process of accused in the case,"...
Arvind Kejriwal hits back at Rahul Gandhi, calls him a ‘kid’
NewDelhi/Nagpur: Politics is now being played out over the demolition drive in Shakur Basti in the national capital. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday took a jibe at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi by calling him a kid. "Rahul Gandhi...
Let him say what he wants: Sonia Gandhi on PM Modi
New Delhi/ Nagpur : A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said "democracy cannot function at the whims and fancies of anyone" in what was his sharpest attack on the Congress since Parliament's winter session began two weeks ago, party...
In order to curb pollution, NGT directs Centre, state governments against buying diesel vehicles
File Pic New Delhi/ Nagpur: In a major step to curb pollution in Delhi, the Nation Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the Centre and state government not to buy any diesel vehicles for their departments. The NGT order is not applicable...
Salman Khan acquitted of all charges in 2002 hit-and-run case
Mumbai/Nagpur: Thirteen years after Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was charged in a hit-and-run case, the Bombay High Court on Thursday has acquitted him of all charges against him, reports said. On 28 September, 2002, the actor's car allegedly rammed into a...
Osmania University beef festival: Eight organisers detained, BJP MLA who threatened to kill arrested
Hyderabad/Nagpur: Eight organisers of the controversial 'beef festival' on Osmania University campus were detained while BJP MLA T Raja Singh, who was opposing the the event, was arrested in Hyderabad this morning, police said. A 'curfew-like' situation prevailed on the campus...
20 peacocks among other birds found dead in Madhupur
Veterinarians suspect bird-flu, forest officials worried. Khurda/ Nagpur: The carcasses of at least 20 peacocks were found lying in Madhupur village forest in Khurda district on Tuesday morning. Veterinarians and wildlife experts suspect possible bird flu deaths. “Bodies of 20 peacocks and...
Russian diplomat assaults Delhi cop, FIR registered
New Delhi/ Nagpur: Law being equal for all, an FIR has been registered against a Russian diplomat who in an allegedly intoxicated state allegedly hit a constable in Moti Bagh in Delhi. Meanwhile the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has...
India can take up trade with Pak and Afghan, says Sushma Swaraj
Islamabad/ Nagpur: Minister of Foreign Affairs Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday that India is "willing to join hands with Pakistan and Afghanistan for trade and commerce," reported sources. "It's time we display maturity and self-confidence to do business with each other...
National Herald case: Statures of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi feared reducing
New Delhi/ Nagpur: A Delhi court’s directive that Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son and party vice president Rahul Gandhi and five others appear before it on 19 December in connection with the alleged breach of trust and misappropriation of...
