New Delhi, 1/3: Senior AAP leader Atishi, who is set to become the first woman minister in the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi Cabinet, has been a key member of the team tasked with implementing the party’s educational reforms in the national capital. Atishi, along with AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj, are the two leaders whose…
Norway, 1/3: Norwegian police on Wednesday briefly detained environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg during a demonstration in Oslo, removing her and other activists from the finance ministry. The campaigners are demanding the removal of wind turbines from reindeer pastures on Sami Indigenous land in central Norway. They have in recent days blocked access…
New Delhi, 1/3: AAP leader Satyendar Jain tendered his resignation from the Delhi Cabinet in a handwritten letter addressed to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on February 27, sources said on Wednesday. In the letter to Kejriwal, Jain said he was thankful for the opportunity given to him.
New Delhi, 1/3: The rupee appreciated by 8 paise to close at 82.50 (provisional) against the US dollar on Wednesday, as a positive trend in domestic equities and easing crude oil prices supported investor sentiments. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local unit opened at 82.48 against the American currency and finally settled…
Gurugram, 1/3: A man has been arrested on the charges of stealing flower pots arranged by the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) near Shankar Chowk as part of the preparations for the G-20 conference. The accused has been identified as Manmohan, 45, who is a property dealer and a resident of Gandhi Nagar…
Nigeria, 1/3: Nigeria’s ruling party candidate, Bola Tinubu, was declared president-elect of Africa’s most populous nation in the early hours of Wednesday after a weekend election that the main opposition parties have disputed. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos state, will take over leadership of a country grappling with Islamist insurgencies in the…
Bengaluru, 1/3: Former Bengaluru police commissioner and AAP leader Bhaskar Rao joined the BJP on Wednesday in Bengaluru. Rao, who resigned from the IPS and joined AAP in April last year, was recently appointed as the party’s manifesto committee chairperson. He is one of AAP’s prominent faces in Karnataka where the Arvind Kejriwal-led…
