Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said that agricultural land bought by her in Haryana’s Faridabad district or other property acquired by her had no links to finances of her husband, his Skylight Hospitality, or to reality major DLF.
The Congress on Monday accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of making ‘disparaging, distatateful and dishonourable’ remarks against country’s women on his website and demanded an apology from him.
Noted lyricist and former Rajya Sabha MP Javed Akhtar has termed the All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s (AIMPLB) call for boycott of abusers of triple talaq a hoax.
The Delhi BJP on Saturday expelled its 21 members, including five sitting councillors, from the party for six years for allegedly being involved in the anti-party activites ahead of the April 23 MCD polls.
The Supreme Court on Thursday snubbed the Congress for questioning the credibility of EVMs after losing Assembly polls in several states, reminding the party that the government headed by Congress itself had brought in the voting machines.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said that the Indian government is not aware of the whereabouts of former naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court.
A day after a video surfaced showing a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan being attacked by an angry mob while he was returning from a polling booth in Srinagar, veteran Indian left-hander Gautam Gambhir criticised the Kashmiri youth for the shocking incident.
All India Muslim Personal Law Board vice-president Kalbe Sadiq has said the Board will end the practice of triple talaq itself in one-and-a-half years so the government should not interfere in the matter.
Chaos prevailed for some time at the end of a conference in New Delhi as several members of the media mobbed Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit and former foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri, forcing the envoy to make a hasty exit.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said in Lok Sabha that the “Indian government will do everything possible to ensure justice for Kulbhushan Jadhav.” He also said that the government strongly condemns Pakistan’s decision to announce death sentence for Jadhav.
An Assam court has issued an arrest warrant against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after he failed to appear before it in connection with a defamation case concerning his tweet on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The aviation ministry on Friday ordered the Air India to immediately lift the two-week-old ban on grounded MP Ravindra Gaikwad. The airline complied with the order and now private airlines, which were waiting for AI’s decision, will follow suit.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is celebrating its 37th foundation today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to congratulate party workers on the occasion and also thanked people for their support.
J Jayalalithaa, former Tamil Nadu chief minister, will not be declared a convict in a corruption case, the Supreme Court said today, rejecting Karnataka’s request.
Top lawyer Ram Jethmalani has come to the rescue of Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday, claiming that he will not charge the Delhi chief minister to defend him against finance minister Arun Jaitely’s defamation lawsuit.
The Congress on Sunday urged the Election Commission to discuss the matter of EVM tampering with all the political parties and take necessary step in the regard, before people lose their faith in the device altogether.
In a big setback for Akhilesh Yadav, his father and Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav has accused Akhilesh of insulting him during the run up to UP polls, adding on Saturday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was right when he had said that a son who was not loyal to his father couldn’t be loyal to anyone else.
Upset with Aam Aadmi Party’s humiliating loss in the recent assembly polls despite their wholehearted support, party’s Punjabi supporters in foreign countries are seeking action against two key leaders of the party. The leaders are party’s Punjab affairs in-charge Sanjay Singh and organisation-building head Durgesh Pathak.
The Supreme Court decided today that a five-judge constitution bench will rule on the constitutional validity of the practice of triple talaq, ‘nikah halala’ and polygamy among Muslims. The hearing will begin May 11.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict in a PIL seeking directions to the Centre to appoint Lokpal as per the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, as the government informed the court that Lokpal cannot be appointed until amendments are cleared by the parliament.
Air India is in no mood to relent as the airline has, for the second time in less than a week, refused to fly Ravindra Gaikwad, a Shiv Sena parliamentarian, who assaulted an airline manager last week, bragging, “I hit him with my slipper 25 times.”
After the humiliating defeat in Punjab and Goa Assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party has been dealt another blow right before the MCD elections to be held in Delhi soon.
Comedian Kapil Sharma’s drunken episode on a flight was raised in parliament today as the Shiv Sena defended its MP Ravindra Gaikwad, banned from flying most major airlines after he assaulted an Air India official with his slipper on Thursday.
The Supreme Court on Monday said the unique identification number – Aadhaar card – cannot be made mandatory for availing benefits under social welfare schemes.
Lucknow: It was interesting to watch how warmly Samajwadi Party Patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted each other at the oath taking ceremony of Yogi Adityanath who became the new chief minister of Uttar Pradesh today.
The Rajya Sabha was disrupted on Friday when Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh alleged that Goa Governor Mridula Sinha committed ‘gross constitutional impropriety’ in the light of the BJP forming a coalition government in the state.
Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal today raised questions about the Electronic voting machines in the Punjab assembly polls, saying 20 per cent to 25 per cent of AAP votes were transferred to the Akali-BJP coalition which was in power in the state.
Update: As of 9.35 AM, early trnds show that BJP is winning majority in UP as it is leading on 216 seats while SP-Congress combine is leading on 64 seats.
Former Press Council of India (PCI) chief Markandey Katju on Friday once again stirred a controversy by calling Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal a ‘cunning ambitious fraud with nothing in his head’.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hoped for a GST breakthrough and called for a constructive debate seeking Opposition’s support in passing several pending bills as Parliament convened for the second leg of the Budget Session.
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