Politics

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is attending a 10-day Vipassana meditation camp at Igatpuri in Maharashtra, days after the hectic campaigning for the Assembly bypolls in Delhi. The Aam Aadmi Party leader started his course at Igatpuri in Nashik district last evening. “Arvindji’s course began at 5 pm yesterday,” AAP spokesperson Preeti Sharma Menon told reporters. “The management of the ...

The income tax (IT) department on Monday attached yet another Delhi-based property belonging to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son Tejashwi Yadav in the benami assets case. An IT officer confirmed that a New Friends Colony house was attached under the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act. The department also issued a final attachment order against Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh ...

In a first, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe would take part in a road show in Ahmedabad in Gujarat on September 13 when the latter begins his visit. The eight-km-long road show would start from the Ahmedabad airport and culminate at the Sabarmati Ashram, according to the BJP. Abe will arrive here on Wednesday on ...

The CBI has summoned former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and his son Tejashwi for questioning in connection with alleged corruption in awarding the maintenance contract for two IRCTC hotels to a private firm, agency officials said. The RJD leader has been asked to appear for questioning at the agency headquarter on September 11 and Tejashwi the next day, they ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping today held their first substantive bilateral meeting after the Dokalam standoff, which had put ties between the two countries under strain. Modi, who attended the BRICS Emerging Markets and Developing Countries Dialogue earlier in the day, met Xi on the sidelines of the 9th BRICS Summit here. The prime minister, accompanied ...

At least eight ministers – Uma Bharti, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Sanjeev Balyan and Faggan Singh Kulaste, Kalraj Mishra, Bandaru Dattareya and two others – have resigned since late Thursday night, and sources said more resignations are expected to make way for new faces, including at least two members from the BJP’s latest ally, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal ...

The Supreme Court today said it would hear Congress leader Jairam Ramesh’s plea challenging the Lok Sabha Speaker’s decision to certify a bill to amend the Aadhaar law as a money bill in the first week of November. The matter was mentioned before a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who was representing Ramesh ...

The Congress today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should apologise for demonetisation, describing it as the country’s “biggest scam” which had inflicted “misery” on the people and dealt a “body blow” to the economy. None of the measures that Modi had promised with the ban on high currency notes, put into effect in November last year, had been realised, Congress ...

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh+ was found guilty of rape by a special CBI court in Panchkula, Haryana, on Friday. He was immediately taken into judicial custody; he will be sentenced on Monday. The Dera head+ was present in court when the judgment was read out. A rape conviction carries a minimum sentence of seven years and ...

With Muharram scheduled a day after Dussera this year, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked the people to cooperate with each other and not to fall prey to provocation leading to communal problems. “Some quarters may try to instigate people to flare up communal tension and there are people who may try to take political advantage of ...