Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday will visit Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD) party office in Chandigarh to pay his last respects to Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal. The 95-year-old politician died on Tuesday after being hospitalised in Mohali a week back. “Parkash Singh Badal’s passing away is a personal loss for me. I have […]
The CBI on Tuesday filed a supplementary charge sheet against former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and others in the excise policy scam case, officials said.The is the first that the CBI has named Sisodia.The agency had arrested Sisodia on February 26 and it filed the charge sheet on the 58th day which may […]
SAD patron and former Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal passed away on Tuesday at a private hospital in Mohali.PM Narendra Modi expressed his condolences calling Badal a colossal figure of Indian politics. “Extremely saddened by the passing away of Shri Parkash Singh Badal Ji. He was a colossal figure of Indian politics, and a remarkable […]
Parkash Singh Badal, the former chief minister of Punjab and Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch, passed away at a private hospital in Mohali on Tuesday. He was 95.Badal, a five-time chief minister, was admitted to the intensive care unit of private hospital following complaints of breathing difficulties on Sunday. In June last year, Badal was hospitalised […]
Amid reports of disagreements within the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance regarding the 2024 elections, the Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata has adopted a cautious approach of observing the situation before taking action. The Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders are expressing their opinions independently without reaching a consensus, which the BJP has […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a notice on a petition filed by top Indian wrestlers seeking to register an FIR against Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over allegations of sexual harassment. A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha sought a response from the Delhi […]
In a fresh crackdown against the cadres of the banned Popular Front of India, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is carrying out searches at more than a dozen locations in parts of the country including Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.The places being searched by the NIA include 12 in Bihar, two in Uttar Pradesh and one […]
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his promise that if the BJP is voted to power in Telangana, it will scrap reservation for Muslims in the state.Owaisi said while Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks of reaching out to backward Muslims, Shah is promising to remove their reservation. “Modi allegedly […]
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey shared a video clip on social media purportedly showing Jharkhand Health Minister Banna Gupta engaging in an “obscene” phone conversation with a woman.Terming the video “fake and edited”, Gupta, a Congress leader, said his political opponents circulated it to tarnish his image. In a statement, the minister said it was part […]
Olympics medallist Bajrang Punia on Monday said all political parties were “welcome” as top Indian wrestlers, including him, Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik, among others, returned to New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Sunday to stage protests against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and its president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for allegedly sexually assaulting women wrestlers. “All […]