Month: April 2024

he Delhi High Court is all set to deliver its verdict on Delhi’s sitting Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging his arrest in a money laundering case linked with the alleged excise scam by the central probe agency Enforcement Directorate (ED) . According to the high court’s website, the verdict will be pronounced by Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma at 2.30 pm on Tuesday. Apart from his arrest in the excise policy case, the Aam Admi Party chief, who is currently lodged in Tihar Jail, has also challenged his subsequent remand…

The elections for the 18th Lok Sabha will take place in seven phases from April 19 to June 1. The result will be declared on June 4. The Lok Sabha has 543 elected members and 102 constituencies will go for polls in the first phase on April 19. Voters in 89 seats will use their franchise in the second phase on April 26 whereas the third phase will be held on May 7 in 94 constituencies. The fourth phase will be held on May 13 (96 seats), the fifth phase…

The seat-sharing on all 48 Lok Sabha seats in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) — led by Shiv Sena-Uddhav Thackeray, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party-Sharad Pawar — has been finalised. In a joint presser on Tuesday, the MVA announced that Uddhav Thackeray’s Sena will contest the upcoming elections on 21 seats, Congress on 17 and Sharad Pawar’s NCP on 10 seats. NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena-UBT leader Uddhav Thackeray and state Congress president Nana Patole announced the poll pact for the 48 parliamentary seats in the state at…

On the birth anniversary of the socialist leader and dalit icon B R Ambedkar, the Kanshi Ram-founded Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will be forty years old. The regional-turned-national party which monopolised the Dalit vote and dominated the political discourse for much of the 1990s and 2000s in Uttar Pradesh is struggling to stay relevant. With declining hold over the dalit classes, their primary vote bank, and the incumbent BJP and INDIA Bloc’s efforts to expand their Dalit outreach, along with the emergence of smaller pro-dalit parties, it remains to be…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday for remarks he made the day before in Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier, Kharge referred to PM Modi’s recent speech at a rally in Rajasthan and mentioned the scrapping of Article 370, which he called ‘Article 371’ in a slip of the tongue, and stated it was not Rajasthan’s issue but of Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking at a rally in Bihar’s Nawada, PM Modi said, “Modi gave a guarantee to scrap Article 370 in Kashmir. What was…