Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Friday said that the violent incidents in Munger district of Bihar are an attack on ‘Hindutva’ and questioned why the state government is keeping quiet in the matter. “At least one person was killed in the police firing after violence erupted during the Goddess Durga immersion…This is a direct […]
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BJP leader Kapil Mishra apologises to Satyendar Jain for bribery remark
New Delhi: BJP leader Kapil Mishra has tendered an unconditional apology to Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain before a Delhi court in a criminal defamation case filed against him for passing defamatory statements against the Minister and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Mishra had accused Jain of handing over a bribe of Rs two crore to Arvind […]
Kejriwal acquitted in defamation case filed by BJP lawmaker
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday acquitted Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a criminal defamation case filed by BJP lawmaker Ramesh Bidhuri in 2016. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Pahuja acquitted Kejriwal of all the offences charged against him. The BJP MP had filed a defamation case against Kejriwal four years ago following latter’s interview […]
Chennai Police registers case against retired Justice CS Karnan
Chennai: The Cyber Crime Wing of Chennai police has registered a case against the retired High Court Justice C.S. Karnan, said his lawyer. “The Cyber Crime Wing has booked a case against retired Justice Karnan after 10 women lawyers wrote to the Chief Justice of India against him and the apex court’s asking the advocates to […]
Payal Ghosh: Have isolated myself till I get my COVID tests done
Mumbai: Actress Payal Ghosh on Tuesday declared that she was isolating till she gets her Covid test done. Payal had attended a political event with Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Monday, where she joined his political outfit, Republican Party of India – A. On Tuesday, Athawale announced that he has tested Covid positive. “I have tested […]
Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar tests corona positive
Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday said that he had tested coronavirus positive and got himself admitted to a private city hospital. Making an announcement on the social media, Nationalist Congress Party senior leader Pawar, 61, said he was asymptomatic but as advised by his doctors got himself admitted to Breach Candy Hospital […]
Everybody in India must get Covid vaccine free, says Kejriwal
New Delhi: According to the Delhi government, every Indian must get the Coronavirus vaccine free of cost, whenever it is ready. The BJP has included the promise of providing the Covid-19 vaccine free of cost in its manifesto issued for the Bihar assembly elections, stirring up a political controversy. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on […]
Former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis tests Covid-19 positive, under treatment
Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party’s Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday announced that he has tested Covid-19 positive and gone into isolation. “I have been working every single day since the lockdown, but now it seems that God wants me to stop for a while and take a break!,” Fadnavis tweeted. Revealing that he has contracted […]
NCP lays red carpet for ex-BJP leader Eknath Khadse, others
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar on Friday formally inducted senior politician Eknath Khadse and many other leaders, who quit the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday, into the party fold. Khadse, his daughter Rohini Khadse-Khevalkar and 72 other party workers at various levels from Jalgaon district were lustily cheered as they joined […]
Delhi court pulls up Tihar for confining Umar Khalid in cell
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday extended the judicial custody of former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid and research scholar Sharjeel Imam till November 20 in connection with the Delhi riots case, while also pulling up the Tihar Jail Superintendent for not allowing Khalid to step out of cell. Both the accused, recently arrested […]