New Delhi: A court here on Saturday sent Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar to five days in police custody in connection with the alleged assault on AAP Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal. The Delhi Police arrested Kumar earlier in the day and his anticipatory bail plea was subsequently observed as becoming “infructuous”…
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) issued two separate show-cause notices to West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday for his party allegedly issuing advertisements targeting the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC). The poll panel has sought Majumdar’s explanation on why two advertisements of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should not be treated as…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the opposition INDIA bloc can go to any extent in pursuing its “vote bank” politics, claiming that the then Congress government during the 2014 elections had handed over 123 properties spread across prime locations in Delhi to the Waqf Board for votes. In his first rally…
Ambala: Prime Minister Narendra Modi sharpened his attack on the Congress on Saturday and said it was his “dhakad” (strong) government that brought down the wall of Article 370 and as a result, Kashmir is now moving ahead on the path of development. Modi said the history of the Congress has been of betraying India’s…
Patna: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Saturday accused the Congress of spreading lies that the NDA intends to change the constitution and end reservations if it returns to power for a third term. He alleged that the Congress never gave due respect to B R Ambedkar. Interacting with media persons here, Joshi said,…
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday asked why Narendra Modi has “broken” his promise of giving legal sanctity to a minimum support price for crops and why he prioritises his politics over the country’s daughters, as the prime minister hits the campaign trail in Haryana. Referring to the protest by women wrestlers from Haryana, Congress…
Patna: Former Union minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday voiced strong displeasure over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charge that the Congress, if it came to power, “will bulldoze the Ram temple” at Ayodhya. Addressing a press conference at the Sadaqat Ashram, the state Congress headquarters, Khurshid also reminded Modi that “the entire nation has accepted the…
Wayanad (Kerala): The Kerala police have registered an FIR against businessman Boby Chemmanur following a complaint by the state lotteries department, which alleges that he promoted his new tea product by including lottery-style prize coupons, negatively impacting the state government’s lottery business. According to the FIR filed by the Wayanad Meppadi police, Chemmanur, also known…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar was arrested Saturday in connection with the alleged assault on AAP MP Swati Maliwal, even as the party claimed she was “blackmailed” by the BJP as she faces a corruption case. Kumar was picked up from the chief minister’s residence by a Delhi Police team,…
Shimla: Prime Minister Narendra Modi changed the political culture of the country from politics of divide and rule to that of report card in the past ten years with the mantra of ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishvas and sabka prayas,” BJP president J P Nadda said on Saturday. Addressing a public rally at Rehan…
