Politics

  NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday carried out searches at 16 locations linked to former Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav after it registered a fresh case for the alleged “land for job” scam. A CBI official, wishing not to be named told The New […]

  NEW DELHI: In a major setback to the cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced him to one-year rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs 1000 in a three-decade-old road rage case. Sidhu who till recently was the president of the Punjab Congress Committee was acquitted by the apex court in […]

NEW DELHI: Hours after the Supreme Court decided to free former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination of convict AG Perarivalan after a 31-year legal battle, the Congress on Wednesday expressed disappointment and said that it was deeply saddened by the decision of the top court. Congress also questioned the upholding of the ‘integrity of the […]

NEW DELHI: Patidar Gujarat leader Hardik Patel, who took the 2017 elections by storm in his home state, is no longer cryptic about his posts on social media as he announced to quit the Congress party, barely three days after Chintan Shivir in Udaipur concluded. In his resignation letter to party interim Chief Sonia Gandhi, Patel […]

NEW DELHI: The next Lok Sabha elections are still two years away but Trinamool Congress (TMC) appeared to have thrown the hat for its supremo Mamata Banerjee as the next Prime Minister of India. To put TMC in a pan India role in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the party had launched a campaign in […]