NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed a supplementary charge sheet against former Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma and four retired officials of the Indian Air Force (IAF) in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case, sources said. Sharma had also served as Comptroller and Auditor General of India […]
NEW DELHI: Days after drubbing in assembly elections in five states, Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that global social media companies are being manipulated to set political narratives and urged the government to put an end to the ‘systematic interference’ of Facebook and other social media giants on electoral politics in […]
NEW DELHI: Following a massive debacle in recently-held assembly polls in five states, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday asked state unit chiefs of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur to step down. “Congress President Sonia Gandhi has asked the PCC Presidents of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur to put […]
NEW DELHI: Almost six months after taking over the case of the seizure of about 3,000 kg of heroin from Gujarat’s Mundra port, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed a charge sheet against 16 people including 11 Afghans and one Iranian national in the case. The accused named in the case were […]
NEW DELHI: Stoking a controversy involving ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie, the Kerala unit of the Congress on Sunday blamed the BJP for the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, and accused the saffron party of doing nothing to take Pandits back to the Valley. Sharing some misleading “facts about Kashmiri Pandits issue” in a series of […]
NEW DELHI: The drubbing in the recently concluded assembly elections in the five states to the Congress has once again brought focus on the G-23 leaders, who two years ago wrote to party chief Sonia Gandhi demanding an active leadership. A meeting of the CWC, considered to be the highest decision making body of the […]
NEW DELHI: Even as the crucial Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting is underway at the party headquarters here to discuss the poll debacle in Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Uttar Pradesh, the grand old party was hit by a controversy last night over the news reports suggesting that party chief Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and […]
LUCKNOW: Apna Dal (Sonelal) supremo Anupriya Patel, whose party won 12 out of 17 assembly seats it contested and whose sister defeated incumbent Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, on Saturday said that leaders of her party and the BJP will “sit and discuss” if she wants the deputy CM’s post for one of her […]
LUCKNOW: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got a massive victory in Uttar Pradesh for a second consecutive term because people had started fearing the Samajwadi Party activists who threatened people and engaged in hooliganism openly, Union Minister Kaushal Kishore said on Friday. Speaking to The New Indian here, Kishore said Akhilesh Yadav’s party will meet […]
LUCKNOW: As the results indicative of victory for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh started rolling out, the mood at the state party headquarters turned festive with the supporters playing holi. As soon as definitive trends emerged suggesting a second consecutive term for the BJP in the state, hundreds of party workers […]