Author: Anand Singh

LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: BSP supremo and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s mother Ramrati (92) passed away on Saturday after battling prolonged illness. BSP general secretary Satish Mishra told reporters that the Dalit czarina’s mother was undergoing treatment at a Delhi hospital and died following a cardiac arrest. Her mother’s cremation is scheduled to take place in […]

NEW DELHI: Delhi is breathing poisonous air. Even as the air quality continues to dip even further in the severe category in the national capital, the Supreme Court on Saturday said the Central government should consider a two-day lockdown in Delhi if necessary, in order to bring down the pollution level in Delhi-NCR. The remarks […]

NEW DELHI: A day after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot met Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, former Deputy Chief Minister and senior party leader Sachin Pilot also met the party supremo in the national capital. Pilot arrived at the residence of Sonia Gandhi around 12 noon at 10 Janpath. Their meeting lasted for over one […]

NEW DELHI: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday met Congress General secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in the national capital and discussed strategy for the upcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh. Baghel, who is also the party observer for Uttar Pradesh, held a meeting with Priyanka Gandhi for over one hour at the residence of her […]

NEW DELHI: In what spells out more trouble for Sushen Mohan Gupta, the alleged middleman in the French aviation company Dassault’s alleged agreement with a Chandigarh based software firm IDS Infotech, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has found bills for his vacation in Thailand in December 2010 on New Year eve. The CBI chargesheet, […]

NEW DELHI: Eight-year-long investigation into the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam has opened a can of worms and given fresh fodder on how Dassault Aviation had allegedly paid approximately 10 million euros (Rs 100 crore) to a middleman– close to son of then UPA-era minister Santosh Bagrodia’s brother — in India from two Mauritius […]

MUMBAI: Prabhakar Sail, an independent witness in the drugs-on-cruise case involving Aryan Khan son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, on Monday appeared before the Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) vigilance team to record his statement. Sail arrived at the CRPF Mess in Bandra along with his lawyers to record his statement. He appeared before the […]

MUMBAI: A six member team of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday arrived in Mumbai to probe the allegations of bribery and extortion against its officer Sameer Wankhede and visited several places related to the drugs case involving Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor, Shah Rukh Khan. All set to question Prabhakar Sail, who […]

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday expressed its dissatisfaction over the probe into the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case on October 3, in which four farmers, a journalist and three BJP workers were killed and also proposed to appoint a retired High Court judge to oversee the probe till the charge sheet is filed. The […]

MUMBAI: Moving ahead in its probe in the money laundering case involving former Maharashtra Home Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Anil Deshmukh, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday summoned his son Hrishikesh Deshmukh for questioning. An ED source told The New Indian, “We have summoned Hrishikesh to depose before us for questioning […]