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Punjab Minister Harjot Singh Bains and Somnath Bharti were among the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) members who were detained by the Delhi police today as they protested against the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the liquor policy case. Several AAP leaders and workers – including women – were seen being shoved and dragged […]

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Amid cries of ”Lal Salaam” and “Jai Bhim”, the winning students were hailed by their supporters. The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) on Sunday elected its first Dalit president from the Left-backed groups after nearly three decades. The United Left panel on Sunday effected a clean sweep in the JNUSU election, defeating its nearest […]

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    Videos showed images of flames and black smoke pouring from the hall. More than 60 people were killed and about 115 others injured after gunmen opened fire at them in a Moscow concert hall, Russian authorities said, raising an earlier count of 40. Russia’s Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said 115 people were hospitalised, […]

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Several former MLAs of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly are expected to join the BJP and contest the upcoming bypolls on its ticket, sources told Press Trust of India today, as the political crisis plaguing the state continues to rumble. Six rebel Congress MLAs – Sudhir Sharma, Ravi Thakur, Rajinder Rana, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal, Chetanya Sharma […]

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest in the alleged excise policy scam has posed a leadership crisis in the Aam Aadmi Party as well as the Delhi government, with his wife Sunita Kejriwal and cabinet ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj being talked about as a possible replacement. The challenge before the AAP now is to […]

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Levelling a serious allegation against the government weeks before the Lok Sabha election, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi has said the Prime Minister has made a systematic effort to cripple the party financially. The same charge was made by senior leader Rahul Gandhi as well. Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Mrs Gandhi said, “The […]

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In a significant order weeks before the elections, the Supreme Court has once again refused to order a stay on the law to appoint election commissioners, stating that doing so at this stage would be “creating chaos”. While making the observations during a hearing on Thursday, the court also noted that there are no allegations […]

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A month before the Lok Sabha elections in Assam, the ruling BJP’s top minority leader in the state resigned and joined the Congress on Wednesday. Aminul Haque Laskar became the Assam BJP’s first minority MLA in 2016. Once a deputy speaker of Assam assembly, Mr Laskar was appointed the chairperson of the Assam State Commission […]

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In another serious setback to the Modi government and the State Bank of India (SBI) management, the Supreme Court today directed the SBI to disclose all possible details it possesses concerning electoral bonds. This includes the crucial alphanumeric codes assigned to each bond, which would enable tracing the origin of the funds and the political […]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Monday that a direct conflict between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance would mean the planet was one step away from World War Three but said hardly anyone wanted such a scenario. The Ukraine war has triggered the deepest crisis in Moscow’s relations with the West […]

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday threatened legal action against Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi over his social media posts alleging corruption by the BJP through electoral bonds. The Congress MP from Nagaon shared a post from a user claiming the Assam government had signed an memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a firm which […]

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Megha Engineering has gone viral on social media since the Election Commission revealed that the company was among the biggest donors to political parties in the last 5 years. Data released by the poll panel showed that the company donated Rs 966 crore through electoral bonds between April 12, 2019, and January 24, 2024. A […]

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The Supreme Court on Friday (March 15) categorically stated that the State Bank of India (SBI) has to disclose electoral bonds numbers as well, in addition to the details it has already disclosed regarding the purchase and redemption of the bonds. In the latest development in the court-mandated disclosure process concerning electoral bonds details, a […]

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The Supreme Court agreed on Friday, March 15, to hear a batch of petitions seeking a stay on the recently notified Citizenship Amendment Rules (CAR). The hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 19. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was passed by the Parliament in 2019, sparking controversy for its alleged discriminatory nature. The Act […]

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Former Karnataka Chief Minister and BJP leader BS Yediyurappa has been charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act over allegations of sexually harassing a teen. The police in Bengaluru’s Sadashivanagar charged the senior BJP leader based on a complaint by the mother of the 17-year-old girl. According to sources in the […]

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Bureaucrats Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar have been chosen for the two vacant posts in the top panel of Election Commission of India, Congress’s leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury told the media this afternoon. Chowdhury was part of the panel chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to select two Election Commissioners to […]

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah has dismissed former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his party’s criticism of the Citizenship Amendment Act, rules of which were notified this week. In the interview with ANI, the Union Minister challenged the Congress leader to appear on a public platform and put forth the case of his party on […]

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The high-level committee headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind today submitted its report on ‘one nation, one election’. The report was submitted to President Droupadi Murmu this morning. The concept refers to holding simultaneous polls across the country. The proposal is to conduct elections for Lok Sabha and all state assemblies at the same […]

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Ram Navami on April 18 this year has been declared a public holiday in West Bengal. The move came “too late”, said BJP, claiming Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wants to “redeem her anti-Hindu image”. Durga Puja, Kali Puja and Saraswati Puja – the major festivals in West Bengal – have been public holidays in the […]

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In yet another serious setback to the Modi government and the State Bank of India, the Supreme Court has thrown out the plea by the SBI to grant an extension of the deadline set by the court to publish details of the electoral bond donors and the recipients from the original March 6 to June […]

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Arun Goel stirred up a row yesterday when he abruptly resigned from the Election Commission just weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. His exit has left the three-member Election Commission of India with only one office-bearer – Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar. While he stated “personal reasons” in his resignation letter, sources have told […]

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The much-anticipated pre-poll alliance and seat-sharing talks between Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have hit a roadblock, raising the prospect of both parties contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha and state assembly elections independently. The talks, which took place in Delhi, failed to resolve differences over two key constituencies […]

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Author and philanthropist Sudha Murty has been nominated to the Rajya Sabha by President Droupadi Murmu. Congratulating Ms Murty, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said her presence in the Rajya Sabha is a powerful testament to the country’s ‘Nari Shakti’ as the announcement came on International Women’s Day. I am delighted that the President of India […]

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In the latest development in the drama surrounding the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) summons to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his refusal to appear before it, a Delhi court has asked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader to appear in court on March 16. The fresh summons comes after the central agency, which wants to question […]

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