Chennai: The Madras High Court on Tuesday set aside an order of a trial court, acquitting Higher Education Minister and DMK leader K Ponmudy and his wife P Visalakshi in a Rs 1.75 crore disproportionate assets case. Passing orders on an appeal filed by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, Justice G Jayachandran convicted the…
New Delhi: As many as 127 opposition MPs have been suspended from the Lok Sabha over protests about the Parliament security breach issue, according to PTI, whereas at least 46 opposition MPs of the Rajya Sabha have so far been suspended for unruly behaviour and for disrupting the proceedings of the house. On Tuesday, forty-nine Lok Sabha MPs,…
Hyderabad: President Droupadi Murmu arrived here on Monday as part of the annual southern sojourn. Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, his deputy Bhatti Vikramarka, Ministers Seethakka and D Sridhar Babu, and senior officials received the President at the Begumpet airport. The President will stay at the Rashtrapathi Nilayam located in Bollarum…
New Delhi: As many as 78 Opposition MPs — 33 from the Lok Sabha and 45 from the Rajya Sabha — were suspended on Monday for disrupting the proceedings of Parliament. This takes the total number of MPs suspended to 92. Last week, 13 opposition members were suspended from the Lok Sabha and one was…
Kolkata: On the eve of the INDIA bloc’s meeting in New Delhi, the Trinamool Congress, a major constituent of the alliance, urged the Congress to abandon its “Zamindari culture” and work towards presenting senior leaders like Mamata Banerjee as the face of the alliance. Banerjee, the TMC supremo and Chief Minister of West Bengal, is…
New Delhi: The Centre on Monday asked states and union territories to maintain constant vigil amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases and the detection of the first case of the new JN.1 variant in the country. In a letter to states and union territories, Union Health Secretary Sudhansh Pant underlined that “due to consistent and collaborative…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has issued a fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning on December 21 in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, officials said Monday. He was first called by the federal agency to appear on November 2, but he did not depose alleging that the notice was “vague,…
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India’s board on Monday reviewed the prevailing economic and financial scenario, including the challenges posed by geopolitical developments. The 605th meeting of the Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India was held today in Ekta Nagar (Kevadia) under the Chairmanship of Governor Shaktikanta Das. “The board reviewed the…
New Delhi: Nine people were detained today as the National Investigative Agency (NIA) raided about 19 locations across four states this morning in connection with the ISIS network case and busted a “highly radicalised jihadi terror group”. The raids were carried out at 11 locations in Karnataka, four in Jharkhand, three in Maharashtra, and one…
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday accused the Congress and its allies of “insulting” the Lok Sabha speaker and Rajya Sabha chairperson and “embarrassing” the country with their conduct, with 92 opposition members suspended from both Houses in the past five days. Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha Piyush Goyal told reporters that opposition…
