Category: Politics

Amritpal Singh’s Britain-origin wife Kirandeep Kaur was detained on Thursday at the Amritsar airport while she was trying to board a flight to London. Kirandeep Kaur will not fly out as she is required for investigation purposes in India. Authorities stopped her from boarding the flight.    She has been questioned several times by police for her role in supporting the organisation that was formed by the late actor-activist, Deep Sidhu. Amritpal Singh, against whom the National Security Act (NSA) has been invoked and a non-bailable warrant issued, is on…

Delhi excise policy case: In a latest development to the Delhi excise policy case, the Rouse Avenue Court on Monday extended the judicial custody of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. According to reports, the judicial custody in the CBI and the ED case has been extended till April 27 and 29 respectively. After the end of his judicial custody on Monday, Sisodia was produced physically before the court from Tihar. Recently, Sisodia was denied bail by special judge MK Nagpal who said he does…

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was on Sunday questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the liquor policy case, said that he answered all the questions put up by the central agency while maintaining that the entire case was farzi (fabricated). Addressing the press after his over 9 hour questioning at the CBI headquarters in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal said he was asked 56 questions by the probe agency and he answered all. “CBI questioning was conducted for 9.5 hours. I answered all the questions. The entire alleged…

Denied a ticket from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the upcoming Assembly elections, former Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar joined Congress on Monday in the presence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge, KPCC president DK Shivakumar and Congress leaders Randeep Surjewala, Siddaramaiah at the party office in Bengaluru. ADVERTISEMENT ‘Built Karnataka BJP but felt humiliated’ “I built Karnataka BJP but got ill-treated. Senior leaders like me are not treated well by the BJP in Karnataka. I always won with a record margin for BJP and performed well at every post.…

Satya Pal Malik, has alleged that the Prime Minister hushed him up, when he as governor reported that the blame for the Pulwama massacre lay on the Centre’s own lapses. In the interview ,Malik also said that the Prime Minister “does not hate corruption very much” and is “ill-informed”. Satya Pal Malik, considered as a rolling stone with an established record of jumping parties, started his political career with Charan Singh and travelled across to the BJP via various Janata or Socialist formations. Malik was appointed Bihar governor in 2017…

Man-to-man marking of rival party candidates, accommodating ‘outsiders’, continuing with the heavy reliance on Lingayat votes and introducing many new faces-the BJP appears to have tried to cover all the bases while drafting its first list of 189 candidates for next month’s elections to the 224-member Karnataka assembly. The first list of candidates, which has 52 new faces, was announced on April 11, followed by a second list of 23 candidates the next day. While the first list has some 52 candidates from the Lingayat community, the BJP has also…

B R Ambedkar Birth Anniversary: Today the country is celebrating the 132nd birth anniversary of ‘Babasaheb’, the architect of the Indian constitution. On this special day, the former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the Centre and alleged the regime in the power of  “misusing and subverting” the institutions of the Constitution. She also urged the people to act to defend the Constitution from this “systematic assault”. Real “anti-nationals” are those who are misusing their power to divide Indians Penning an article in The Telegraph on the 132nd…

Former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi on Friday alleged that the AAP-led state government wanted to kill him after he was summoned by the Vigilance Bureau on a April 14 (today), which is a public holiday on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti. The Vigilance Bureau has summoned the ex-CM for questioning in a disproportionate assets case. Earlier, the anti-corruption bureau asked Channi to appear for questioning on April 12. He, however, requested for another date to join the investigation, which the bureau allowed, asking him to…

The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police killed Atiq Ahmad’s son Asad and his shooter Ghulam in an encounter in the state’s Jhansi district. Asad and Ghulam were key accused in the murder of Umesh Pal, who was a prime witness in the murder of a BSP legislator. On February 24, this year, Umesh Pal, the main witness in the murder case of Raju Pal and his two security guards was shot dead in Prayagraj’s Dhumanganj region. This shootout was led by Asad. The STF team was reportedly…

BENGALURU: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is finding it hard to keep its flock together as those who have been denied tickets are revolting against the party openly. Mudigere BJP MLA M P Kumaraswamy on Thursday announced his resignation from the party, after he was denied a ticket to contest the Karnataka Assembly polls, and blamed national General Secretary C T Ravi for not getting nominated. The three-time MLA said he will also be submitting his resignation as a legislator to the Assembly Speaker soon. In the BJP’s second list…