New Delhi, 30/3: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Delhi minister Kailash Gahlot for questioning on Saturday in connection with a money-laundering case linked to the now-scrapped excise policy for the capital, official sources said. Gahlot (49), an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Najafgarh, is the minister for transport, home and law in the…
UP, 29/3: A chief judicial magistrate’s court in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, a senior official said. Banda Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bhagwan Das Gupta appointed Garima Singh, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA Court Banda) as the investigating officer in the case, the official…
Patna, 29/3: The Mahagathbandhan, the opposition coalition in Bihar, on Friday announced that the RJD, its largest constituent, will contest 26, out of the state’s 40 Lok Sabha seats. The Congress will contest nine seats, followed by CPI(ML) 3 and CPI and CPI(M) one each. As per the announcement, the Congress has been made to…
New Delhi, 28/3: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba in New Delhi on Friday as part of a bilateral engagement. Kuleba, who arrived here on Thursday, is on a two-day visit to India. “Welcome FM @DmytroKuleba of Ukraine to Hyderabad House. Look forward to our discussions today,” Jaishankar…
Greece, 29/3: A 5.8-magnitude earthquake on Friday hit Greece, reported news agency PTI. The earthquake occurred 30 km North-West of Filiatra, the agency added.
New Delhi, 28/3: The Income Tax Department has issued demand notice of Rs 1,700 crores to the Congress, news agency ANI reported, citing sources. The fresh demand notice is for assessment years 2017-18 and 2020-21, and includes penalty and interest.
Banda, 29/3: Mukhtar Ansari was subjected to slow poisoning in jail, Umar Ansari, the son of the gangster-turned-politician who died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda, alleged early Friday. The charge has been denied by authorities. Mukhtar Ansari was brought to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda from the district…
Mumbai, 28/3: The ruling-Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Ekanth Shinde on Thursday released a list of 8 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. A two-time MP from Mumbai South Central constituency and confidant of Eknath Shinde, Rahul Shewale has been fielded from the same constituency while the sitting MP of Kolhapur, Sanjay Mandlik,…
New Delhi, 28/3: In a major political development, Cuttack MP and former BJD leader Bhartruhari Mahtab, cine superstar and former BJD MP Sidhant Mohapatra, Padma Shri Dr Damayanti Beshra join BJP at party headquarters in Delhi.
Lanjigarh, 28/3 – Vedanta Limited, Lanjigarh, India’s premier producer of metallurgical grade alumina and a unit of Vedanta Aluminium, has signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with OSDA (Odisha Skill Development Authority), Government of Odisha, with the aim to upskill more than 1,300 youths in a span of 3 years. Its skill training initiative has…
