The Bombay High Court Friday directed the Enforcement Directorate to provide documents to sacked IPL chief Lalit Modi based on which the central agency had issued him show cause notices in July 2011 and March 2013 for alleged foreign exchange violations in the Indian Premier League held in South Africa in 2009. The bench, comprising […]
Dismissing allegations of involvement of her Trinamool Congress in “horse-trading of MLAs (legislators)”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said she would welcome members of opposition who voted for her party in the Rajya Sabha polls. “This doesn’t happen in Bengal…Trinamool is the only party that is very transparent…we are the poorest of the […]
Delhi’s AAP government and the Congress, which props it up, Friday seemed headed for a showdown over the Jan Lokpal bill, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying the central government’s okay was not needed to get it passed in the Delhi assembly. The Congress reiterated that it would not support the bill as it was […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday promised an annual fare revision as well as training on how to behave with commuters to the tens of thousands of auto drivers, considered his vote bank, at a mass meeting on the outskirts of the capital. Addressing a mahasabha of thousands of auto drivers as well as of […]
A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the AAP government had been told by lawyers that the Jan Lokpal bill didn’t need the central government’s nod, one of the lawyers involved in the matter Saturday said that he was not consulted about the bill. “I was not consulted on the question of […]
Cleric of Islamabad’s Lal Masjid and member of the Pakistani Taliban-nominated peace talks committee, Maulana Abdul Aziz is expected to continue his role in the peace process after he threatened to walk out Friday if he was not assured that Sharia or Islamic law will be enforced in Pakistan, media reported Saturday. Maulana Yousuf Shah, […]
The first of 2,500 Syrians trapped by war in Syria’s old city of Homs without aid for nearly two years have been evacuated under a three-day accord allowing people out and aid in, the UN said. In a statement Friday, the UN called for immediate access to nearly 1.6 million others throughout the country who […]
A senior Obama administration official has expressed confidence that despite recent setbacks India-US strategic partnership will continue to grow whatever the outcome of India’s upcoming national elections. “For almost two decades, in both India and the United States, Presidents and Prime Ministers and political parties have come together and worked to overcome old schisms,” US […]
The “lack of governance” in Delhi led to the death of a student from Arunachal Pradesh in the national capital, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said here Saturday. “The lack of governance in Delhi has led to Nido Tania’s death in the national capital. I condemn the Nido Tania incident in […]
A bill that increases quota for disabled people in government jobs from 3-5 percent was introduced in the Rajya Sabha Friday. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014, was introduced in the upper house by Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Mallikarjun Kharge amid the din. As members protested on various issues, Deputy Chairman […]