NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed a charge sheet against Sukesh Chandrasekhar, a millionaire conman who is involved in extorting hundreds of crores from businessmen, politicians and celebrities and seven others in connection with the Rs 200 crore money laundering case. An ED official said that the financial probe agency has filed […]
RAE BARELI: Most people after acquiring a degree in engineering dream of working with a multinational company. But that is not the case with Santosh Kumar Singh of Rae Bareli. One meeting with the Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in 2012 is all it took to change the life course and leave his well […]
NEW DELHI: Facing stiff challenge from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which is visibly assuming the role of the main opposition, the Congress on Thursday hit back at West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief, Mamata Banerjee, for switching alliance between the NDA and the UPA as per her convenience. Calling her a political opportunist in […]
NEW DELHI: A day after West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee took a swipe at the Congress ridiculing UPA, political strategist Prashant Kishor joined the band wagon to target the grand old party saying the idea and space that it represents is vital for strong opposition but its leadership is […]
MUMBAI: In her inimitable style, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that there exists no such collective as a United Progressive Alliance (UPA). She made this statement soon after she stepped out of her meeting with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo, Sharad Pawar. “What is UPA? There […]
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Tuesday accused the government of bypassing norms of the parliamentary democracy , saying that she is not going to apologise as she had only raised the issue on behalf of the people of the country in the House. Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on […]
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday rejected the Opposition’s appeal for revocation of suspension of 12 MPs since they have not expressed remorse. “Suspended MPs have not expressed remorse. I am not considering the appeal of Leader of Opposition (the Congress’ Mallikarjun Kharge). Suspension will not be revoked,” Naidu said. The […]
NEW DELHI: Sharpening his attack on Narendra Modi government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the repealing of the three farm laws without a debate shows that the government is “terrified” of having a discussion with the contending parties and knows that it has done something wrong. After the Parliament passed ‘The Farm Laws […]
NEW DELHI: Congress MPs led by party chief Sonia Gandhi and former president Rahul Gandhi on Monday staged a protest in Parliament complex demanding the repeal of three farm laws. The Lok Sabha passed the Farm Laws Repeal Bill soon after the Winter Session convened, however, without a discussion as demanded by the Opposition. The […]
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has written to the Union Home Ministry seeking permission to probe the killing of Colonel Viplav Tripathi, who was killed along with his wife and eight-year-old son along with four other soldiers in a terror attack in Manipur recently. According to NIA sources, the anti-terror probe agency had […]