Month: February 2023

Jailed Aam Aadmi Party leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain have resigned as ministers, and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has accepted their resignations. If sentenced to two years or more in jail, Sisodia and Jain may lose their seats and can’t contest polls for six years. Sisodia was arrested by the CBI for alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped liquor policy for 2021–22 in the national capital. Satyendar Jain was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in May last year for his alleged involvement in a…

Three Indian states in the country’s northeast region held their assembly elections. All three states have 60 seats in their assembly where 31 seats are needed to secure the majority. According to recent data from the Election Commission, the turnout in Meghalaya was 81.57 and Nagaland at 85.90 percent. Tripura recorded nearly 87.6 percent. The exit polls published by several agencies for Meghalaya suggest no single party or alliance will  manage to secure a majority. Exit polls for Tripura assembly elections show BJP and its ally IPFT will manage to…

Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Bhupender Yadav  said the Indo-Danish Green Strategic Partnership is an appropriate forum to exchange ideas, best practices, knowledge, technology, capacity building for promoting sustainable lifestyles including LiFE, not only in Denmark and India, but for Europe and the whole world. Addressing The India – Denmark: Partners for Green and Sustainable Progress Conference  today in New Delhi  Shri Yadav said that since the launch of the “Green Strategic Partnership” during the Virtual Summit on 28 September 2020 between Prime Minister of Denmark,…

Thackeray said he no longer had trust in the apex poll body, adding it should be called “Election Chuna Lagao Aayog”. “Chuna lagana” is street lingo for defrauding somebody. Amid rift over the Election Commission‘s decision over Shiv Sena, (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray attacked the EC for declaring the party faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as the “real” Shiv Sena and allotting it the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol. While addressing the gathering in Matoshree on the occasion of Marathi Day, Thackeray said he no longer had trust…

Umesh Pal murder case: Sadakat Khan is a practicing lawyer who was staying at Allahabad University hostel. Police said they are looking into how he was staying in the hostel. adakat Khan, who has been named as one of accused in the sensational Umesh Pal murder on February 24, is said to be close to Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav. On February 24, Umesh Pal, the prime witness in 2005 murder case of then BSP MLA Raju Pal was killed in broad daylight. One of Sadaqat’s pictures surfaced on social…