Security has been stepped up in central Delhi with the deployment of additional personnel in view of demonstrations by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the BJP on Friday, police said. While the AAP will stage a protest outside the BJP headquarters over alleged cheating in the Chandigarh mayoral polls, the BJP has said its...
A day after she accused the Congress and the Left of colluding in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee today trained her guns at Centre, stating that her Trinamool Congress (TMC) will “capture” Delhi and bring all regional parties under one umbrella after the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Ms Banerjee, addressing a rally, stressed her party’s commitment...
Four foreign nationals and a luxurious house near Delhi – a detail that didn’t mean much to anyone until it was known that the team of four was using the property to produce “fine-quality” banned methamphetamine drugs. The lab at the “luxurious and lonely private place” at Alestonia Estate in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida was...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said there are no changes in tax rates for direct and indirect taxes, including import duties. She also said the number of tax filers has swollen 2.4 times and the direct tax collection has trebled since 2014. The processing time of tax returns has been reduced from 93 days...
Hindu petitioners can worship inside the previously sealed basement – the ‘Vyas ka tekhana’ area – of the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi, a city court ruled Wednesday. The judge also said arrangements, including removal of barricades, are to be completed in a week. The court further said prayers should be conducted by priests from the Kashi Vishwanath...
Canada ignored India’s request for sharing information about any concerns they may have, and instead made allegations in public against India over the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June 2023, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told NDTV in an interview today. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had kicked up a massive diplomatic...
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate this evening, minutes after quitting the post. Transport minister Champai Soren, one of the veteran leaders of the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, will step into his shoes. Later in the evening, Mr Soren was formally arrested after being taken to the ED...
Amid ‘suspense’ over his whereabouts and intense political drama, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday reached his official residence in Ranchi and chaired a meeting of his alliance MLAs even as a slugfest broke out between his party JMM and the BJP over the action by the ED, which is set to question him...
BJP candidate Manoj Sonkar on Tuesday defeated AAP’s Kuldeep Dhalor Tita, who was fielded as part of an alliance with the Congress, to win the post of mayor in the Chandigarh mayoral polls. Sonkar polled 16 votes while Kumar secured 12. Eight votes were declared invalid. The victory came after a high drama was witnessed at...
Delhi CM and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that the BJP won the elections using unfair means, calling the events that unfolded a “black day for democracy”. The BJP won the Chandigarh mayoral elections by committing “fraud in broad daylight”, he said at a press conference here. “Seventy-six years ago on January 30, Mahatma...