Chennai: The Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi has to bow down to the apex court directive resulting agreeing to swear in K Ponumudy as a minister on Friday. Ponmudy will be re-inducted as the minister of higher education, the portfolio which he held earlier. An official communication from Raj Bhavan said Ponmudy will be allocated…
New Dellhi: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Friday withdrew his plea from the Supreme Court of India against arrest by the Enforcement Directorate. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi appearing for Kejriwal told the top court that the AAP supremo is withdrawing the petition as it is clashing with the remand. Kejriwal was arrested by the…
New Delhi: From leading the ‘India Against Corruption’ movement to becoming the chief minister of Delhi thrice in a row, Arvind Kejriwal, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday, has had a chequered career as a bureaucrat-turned-activist-turned-politician. Kejriwal’s arrest comes at a time when his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is making a serious foray into…
Bengaluru: Amid firm indications that Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge is unlikely to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the party on Thursday fielded his son-in-law, Radhakrishna Doddamani, from his home turf of Gulbarga. The octogenarian won the Lok Sabha polls from the Gulbarga (Kalaburagi) segment in 2009 and 2014, but lost the electoral contest in…
New Delhi: The AAP’s Delhi unit convenor Gopal Rai gave a call on Thursday for a nationwide protest against the BJP following Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Rai said Kejriwal’s arrest is the “murder of democracy” and an “announcement of dictatorship”. The ED arrested Kejriwal in an excise policy-linked money-laundering…
New Delhi: Several political parties condemned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest by the ED on Thursday, claiming that it shows how “jittery” the ruling BJP at the Centre is with less than a month to go for the Lok Sabha polls. The opposition parties also accused the BJP of indulging in vendetta politics. Kejriwal…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in an excise policy-linked money laundering case on Thursday night and took him to the agency’s headquarters here, officials said. The arrest, the first of a sitting chief minister, came hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant protection to the AAP…
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma has written to party president Mallikarjun Kharge saying a caste census cannot be a panacea nor a solution for unemployment and inequalities in society. Sharma’s letter comes at a time the Congress has intensified its demand for a nationwide caste census and promised to carry out the exercise…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday alleged that Congress MP Karti Chidambaram took a Rs 50 lakh bribe through a close aide for getting sanction of the Union home ministry for reuse of visas for Chinese personnel by a company that was establishing a power plant in Punjab. It claimed that this alleged bribe…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court slammed the Tamil Nadu Governor, R N Ravi, for acting like an extra-constitutional authority. It look took strong objection to his conduct and said he was “defying the Supreme Court of India,” on Thursday. The three-judge bench of the SC, led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dr Dhananjaya…
