The Delhi chief minister Kejriwal said the Prime Minister is an “arrogant dictator”. The Bharatiya Janata Party took strong objection to the alleged derogatory remarks against the Prime Minister by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal during a rally on Sunday, while also charging ministers of his Aam Aadmi Party of large-scale corruption. Kejriwal is ill-mannered,...
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1984 anti-Sikh riots: Supplementary chargesheet against Jagdish Tytler listed for hearing on June 30
The CBI filed the chargesheet on May 20 in Rouse Avenue Court. The case is connected with the killing of three Sikhs in the Pul Bangash area on November 1, 1984. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Vidhi Anand Gupta took up the matter after receiving the case file. A special MP-MLA court on Thursday listed the...
AAP, BJP get 3 seats each in MCD’s standing committee poll
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s standing committee will have three members each from the AAP and the BJP as the results of the poll held on February 24 to elect members of the key panel were declared on Thursday. The results were declared days after the Delhi High Court set aside the decision of Mayor Shelly Oberoi...
India’s nuke arsenal to get boost with ‘Agni Prime’ missile
This was the Agni Prime’s first pre-induction night launch and validated “the accuracy and reliability” of the weapon system, the defence ministry said. India is set to induct a new ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear warheads up to 2,000 km away, with the defence ministry on Thursday announcing that the Defence Research and Development...
Cyclone Biparjoy to intensify during next 48 hours, IMD issues warning: Updates
Cyclone ‘Biparjoy’ is rapidly turning into a severe cyclonic storm and is likely to intensify further during the next 48 hours. Cyclone ‘Biparjoy’ is rapidly turning into a severe cyclonic storm and is likely to intensify further during the next 48 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday. According to the weather agency, the...
Wrestlers’ protest halted till 15 June after Anurag Thakur’s assurance
Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on 7 June assured India’s star wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik that the ongoing probe against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh will be completed by 15 June. Thakur even said that a chargesheet will be submitted. The following developments arrived after the star wrestlers...
Delhi bjp set to get new HQ on DDU marg, building to have South Indian temple architecture features
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) The Delhi BJP’s new headquarters at DDU Marg will borrow features of South Indian temple architecture and depend on financial contributions by party leaders and workers, the party said on Wednesday. BJP national president J P Nadda will perform the ‘bhoomi poojan’ and lay the foundation stone of the four-storeyed...
Battle for inauguration: Delhi L-G, Kejriwal govt lock horns over GGSIPU campus
An invitation by the varsity stated that Lt Governor V K Saxena will inaugurate the campus at 11 am on Thursday. The inauguration of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University’s east Delhi campus has become the latest flashpoint between lieutenant governor VK Saxena and the AAP-led city government, with both sides claiming that they would inaugurate...
Criminal defamation case: Gujarat court summons Kejriwal, Sanjay Singh
The direction was issued on Wednesday as the court observed that prima facie there appeared to be a case against them under Indian Penal Code’s Section 500 (defamation A court in Gujarat has directed Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Member of Parliament Sanjay Singh to appear before it on July 13 in connection with...
New Delhi-San Francisco Air India flight with 216 passengers diverted to Russia’s Magadan after engine glitch
The Air India flight AI173, operating from Delhi to San Francisco, has developed a technical issue with one of its engines. An Air India flight, operating from New Delhi to San Francisco, made an emergency landing at Magadan airport in Russia on Tuesday after developing a technical issue with one of its engines. The flight AI173 was...