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Comedian Munawar Faruqui’s show at Delhi’s Civic Centre scheduled for August 28 has been scrapped. The Delhi Police denied permission to Faruqui’s programme stating that the show could “disturb the communal harmony in the city”. The refusal comes after the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) cautioned Delhi Police and asked it to stop the event or […]

Anurag Sharma, Member of Parliament from the Jhansi-Lalitpur parliamentary constituency, has been elected as the International Treasurer of the Parliamentary Association Conference (CPA) at the 65th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference in Halifax, Canada. He will now be on the main Executive Council. The election of Sharma made him the second Indian office-bearer in the world’s […]

“Had Arvind Kejriwal been the Prime Minister and I an education minister from another party, he would have hugged me for the work I did in the field of education,” Delhi Deputy Chief minister Manish Sisodia said on Friday. While speaking on the floor of the Delhi assembly, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader also […]

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) served a Look Out Circular (LOC) against former chairman of West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) Manik Bhattacharya in the case related to the primary teachers’ appointment. CBI issued the LOC after the investigative agency could not find him in both his residences in south Kolkata and Nadia district. […]

Hours after the Supreme Court-appointed panel stated that the Centre did not cooperate in the Pegasus probe, Congress on Thursday alleged the government has “something deeper to hide”. The Grand Old Party also said that by its actions, the government has made it clear it wants to crush democracy. Hitting out at the government, former […]