Category: Politics

A Special PMLA Court on Monday extended the judicial custody of Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik by 14 days till April 4.However, the Special Court has allowed his plea to provide him with a bed, mattress and chair during his judicial custody Malik, 62, was arrested in a pre-dawn swoop on February 23 by the Enforcement […]

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will chair a two-day brain storming cabinet meeting in Pachmarhi, a popular hill station in Narmadapuram district of the state. The post annual budget cabinet meeting of the Shivraj Singh government will be held on March 26 27, during which a detailed discussion on every development project of […]

Anil Joshiyara, a senior Congress MLA from Bhiloda constituency in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat, passed away Monday due to complications of Covid-19. Joshiyara’s death was announced in the Gujarat Assembly by deputy leader of the Opposition Shailesh Parmar. Following the announcement, proceedings of the House were adjourned by Speaker Nimaben Acharya after observing a two-minute […]

The Department of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) is conducting raids at the premises of the former AIADMK Minister S.P. Velumani at around 58 locations in Tamil Nadu, including his residence in Coimbatore. The raids are underway and DVAC officials are tight-lipped on the progress of the raids which began at around 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday. […]

Close on the heels of AAP’s Yuvrajsinh Jadeja bringing to fore Gujarat government’s irregularities and paper leak scams in jobs exams, the Congress has decided to hold a Yuva Sammelan in Gandhinagar on March 28. It aims to highlight the need to prevent paper leaks in government jobs and bring transparency in the process, said […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive here on Friday morning for a two-day visit to the state. He will arrive at 11 am and then go to Kamalam, BJP headquarters at Koba. A grand road show has been organised enroute by the party. More than 4 lakh people are expected to be present by the […]

Can dominance of men in the state be cited as the reason for its top position in rape crime? The answer is “yes”, according to Rajasthan’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal. The minister has stirred a hornet’s nest with his contro versial statement, which he made to “explain the reason” for Rajasthan being number one […]

The victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in state assembly elections in four states Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur, the party celebrated Vijayotsav at its headquarters Shri Kamalam in Gandhinagar on Thursday. Gujarat BJP president CR Paatil and Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel were present at the celebrations among other senior leaders even as […]

A day after a picture of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was seen among the pic tures of 200 eminent persons (vyakti vishesh) with roots in Gujarat, featured at an exhibition organised by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at the venue of its annual three-day meet, it was removed on Thursday. The Sangh’s […]

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Gujarat celebrated the party’s resounding victory in the Punjab assembly elections by bursting fire crackers and distributing sweets at its offices in Ahmedabad and Surat on Thursday as its president termed the victory as a dream of clean politics coming true. In the Punjab Assembly elections, the results of […]