Politics

NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday detained Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut in the Patra Chawl money laundering case. The move comes after the officials from the financial probe agency carried out searches at Raut’s premises in Mumbai. He was also questioned for hours before being detained. ED sources told The New […]

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Chief minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis met the top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership in Delhi on Saturday night. The agenda was to iron out the creases in the cabinet expansion in Maharashtra. Top BJP sources in Delhi told The New Indian that work on cabinet expansion is […]

NEW DELHI: Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday rejected all charges against the Delhi Excise Policy and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of “playing dirty politics” to promote the liquor mafia. He said that the Delhi Excise Policy will expire on July 31 but officials are not ready to take it forward. […]

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday called for maintaining a balance between economy and ecology while undertaking development projects by using science and technology. Dhami made the remark at a ‘Bodhisattva’ meeting organized at the Secretariat here to develop Champawat as a model district. He also exhorted state government officials to work […]

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 […]