Politics

The polling to elect 14th president of india ended on Monday after 71 MLAs inlduing one MLA from Bihar casted their vote in vidhan sabha  on Monday. Voting had begun by 10 am and ended by 2pm. As chief minister Trivendra singh rawat along with his cabinet colleague Harak Singh Rawat and party fellow Rajkumar Thukral went to cast vote ...

In a major security breach, a dangerous plastic explosive was found in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today informed the House, which unanimously recommended an NIA probe into it. As soon as the House met this morning, the chief minister, who earlier chaired an emergency security meeting, informed that white powder was found wrapped in a paper ...

A city court today reserved order on a plea of a BJP youth wing leader seeking one rupee compensation from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP spokesperson Sanjay Singh, claiming he was projected as the person who had assaulted former minister Kapil Mishra. Additional Senior Civil Judge V K Gautam heard the arguments of the counsel for the plaintiff ...

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday carried out searches at 12 locations after registering a corruption case against former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and his family members including his son Deputy Chief Minister of the eastern Indian state of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav The searches started at seven in the morning and were spread out at 12 locations in ...

Maharashtra BJP leader Ravindra Bawanthade, who was accused by a woman of raping her after a video showing them kissing on a bus went viral, has been arrested. Ravindra Bawanthade, 48, is a supervisor at a school at Nagbhid in Chandrapur district. A 19-year-old student of his school had filed a rape case against Bawanthade after CCTV footage of inside ...

Nityanand Mahto,BJP’s media in-charge in Ramgarh, was arrested on Saturday from the district party chief’s house, the police said. Mahto has pleaded innocence. He said he had visited the spot only to inquire into the incident after the police had reached. He has demanded an impartial probe into the incident. On June 29, Alimuddin alias Asgar Ansari was allegedly carrying ...

The Rashtriya Janata Dal Twitter handle on Thursday shared the pictures of Radha Mohan SIngh, the Union Minister of Agriculture, urinating in the open and flanked by security guards. Since then, the photos have gone viral. The minister, however, defended himself, saying there was no urinal for long distances on National Highway 28 near Pipara when he wanted to relieve ...

Dehradun: The NDA’s presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind yesterday held a meeting with MPs and MLAs of the ruling BJP in Uttarakhand at Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat’s official residence here to canvass support for himself. The closed-door meeting, chaired by the chief minister, lasted for two hours, official sources here said. All 57 party legislators and two out of ...

Two AAP legislators, including a woman, sustained injuries and taken to hospital when they along with other party members were being “physically” taken out by the marshals out of the Punjab Assembly, which witnessed ruckus over not allowing two suspended lawmakers from entering the House. In the melee, turbans of some of the opposition members also got came off. Speaker ...

The Congress yesterday staged a boycott in the state Assembly over the farm loan waiver issue. While debating the merits of the admissibility of the issue under Rule 310, Leader of the Opposition Indira Hirdayesh sought a deadline from the government for implementing the poll promise. “The announcement was made by PM Narendra Modi during election campaign in Uttarakhand. While ...