Chennai: The AIADMK General Council meet on Monday expelled rival leader O Panneerselvam from the party’s primary membership and his post of treasurer but the defiant leader said his rival Edappady K Palaniswami has no right to show him the door and rather announced the ‘expulsion’ of the latter from the party. Amid a big…
New Delhi, 11/7:The Supreme Court on Monday pronounced a four-month sentence against fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya in a contempt case, according to PTI. In 2017, the top court had held Mallya guilty of contempt of court for withholding information from the court about transferring $40 million to his children in violation of the court’s order….
Goa, 11/7: Amid speculation that some Congress MLAs may cross over to the ruling BJP in Goa, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday alleged that it is not democracy, but “money power” of the saffron party. He was speaking to reporters in Pune after offering his prayers to Lord Vitthal in the…
New Delhi, 10/7:Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to his counterparts in several nations in South, South-East and West Asia, greeting them on the occasion of the Eid-al-Adha and personally reached out to them weeks after comments made by two BJP leaders on Prophet Mohammed, which triggered international outrage. Modi mentioned in his letters to…
Udaipur, 10/7: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a seventh person in connection with the brutal killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan’s Udaipur last month, a spokesperson said on Sunday. The spokesperson said Farhad Mohammad Sheikh, alias Babla, was arrested on Saturday evening. He was a “close criminal associate” of…
New Delhi, 10/7: The deputy Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly has told the Supreme Court that he had refused to take on record a communication sent by the rebel group of Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde against his removal as none of the 39 MLAs had met him personally and he had no means…
Goa, 10/7:Goa Assembly Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar on Sunday cancelled the notification for election to the post of deputy speaker, which was scheduled for July 12. The move comes amid speculation that some Congress MLAs in the 40-member House may cross over to the ruling BJP. The order, issued by Legislature Secretary Namrata Ulman,…
Haryana, 10/7: A month after cross-voting in the Rajya Sabha elections, sulking Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnoi on Sunday gave a definite sign that he is headed to the saffron camp by meeting BJP president J P Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah here and praising them on social media. Bishnoi, the 53-year-old son of former…
UK, 10/7:Rishi Sunak, the British Indian former minister who has now formally launched his campaign to be elected the new Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister, emerged as an early frontrunner in the leadership race on Saturday, even as more candidates joined the fray. The 42-year-old son-in-law of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has…
Colombo, 10/7::The anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka on Sunday continued to occupy the residences of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, a day after they stormed into the premises and set on fire one of the buildings protesting over the nation’s severe economic crisis even as the island nation is still in the dark…
