Politics

NEW DELHI: Congress on Saturday demanded that top BJP leaders apologise to the nation over alleged involvement of party functionaries in crimes against women in Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh. Addressing a press conference here, Congress spokesperson Ajoy Kumar said, “You (BJP) asked for an apology from Sonia Gandhi but I ask you to apologise to […]

DEHRADUN: Mahendra Bhatt, the newly-appointed president of the Uttarakhand unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is an able organiser, a staunch Rambhakt, and an avid traveller at heart. His elevation to the top party post in Uttarakhand was announced by the Central party leadership on Saturday. He actively participated in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement […]

DEHRADUN: MLA Madan Kaushik, who was blamed by many for CM Pushkar Singh Dhami’s defeat and has now been replaced by Mahendra Bhatt as Uttarakhand BJP president, is likely to be inducted in the state Cabinet, as per party sources. On Saturday, the Central party leadership announced Bhatt, who lost the last Assembly elections, as […]

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday took cognizance of the charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against arrested Delhi Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendar Jain, his wife and eight others including four firms in connection with the hawala transactions money laundering case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday filed […]

NEW DELHI: Amid the furore over his Rashtrapatni remarks, Congress Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday tendered an apology to President Draupadi Murmu saying it was a “slip of the tongue”. In a letter addressed to the President, he wrote: “I am writing to express my regret for having mistakenly used an incorrect […]