India

New Delhi Dec 23: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said an advisory has been issued to all states to ensure law and order during Christmas in the wake of fringe elements recently threatening some Christian community members against celebrating the festival. A fringe group in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh had on December 17 issued a circular and threatened the management of all city schools

New Delhi, Dec 23: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed chargesheet against RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti and her husband in a money laundering case. ED counsel Nitesh Rana filed the charge sheet before the court of Special Judge N.K. Malhotra. The probe agency had earlier attached a Delhi farmhousein connection with its money laundering probe against Bharti and her

New Delhi, Dec 23: Escalating his attack on the BJP, newly-elected Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the entire architecture, structure and foundation of the ruling party was based on "lies" and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Gujarat model' was "flawed and fake". He was speaking after chairing the first meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision

Ranchi, Dec 23: The fate of former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and Jagannath Mishra and 20 others will be decided today by a special CBI court here in the fodder scam case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of more than Rs 89 lakh from Deoghar Treasury between 1991 and 1994. Lalu, accompanied by younger son Tejaswi Yadav, arrived here to present himself before the special CBI Judge

Ahmedabad, Dec 22: Incumbent Vijay Rupani was on Friday elected the leader of the BJP legislature party in Gujarat, and will be the state’s Chief Minister for a second term, Union minister Arun Jaitley said. Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel will continue to be the second in command, after he was declared the deputy leader of the legislature party by Jaitley, the central observer appointed by the

Chennai, Dec 22: DMK leader M K Stalin today said the verdict in the 2G spectrum allocation case has come as a "blow" to those who wanted to "taint" the party. Hailing the acquittal of Kanimozhi and A Raja, he said the party has now emerged like "gold refined by fire." Quoting certain observations made by the special judge in the verdict, Stalin said it showed the case was "fabricated with an aim

New Delhi, Dec 22: A day after failing to make his maiden speech in the Rajya Sabha, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar took to social media to speak his heart out regarding the importance of sports in an individual's life. Sachin uploaded a video on social media on Friday after he wasn't allowed to speak in the Parliament on Thursday and his post read: "It is my endeavour to transform India from

Chennai, Dec 22: Former telecom minister A Raja, who was acquitted by a special court on Thursday of culpability in the 2G spectrum scam, has written to party supremo M Karunanidhi, thanking the latter for his "support". Raja, who was a Union minister in the Manmohan Singh government in 2008, has penned an emotional letter, in which he said Karunanidhi stood by him throughout. "Who is going to

Mumbai, Dec 22: The Bombay High Court on December 22 set aside the sanction granted to the Central Bureau of Investigation by Maharashtra Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao to prosecute senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh housing society scam. A division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Sadhana Jadhav ruled that though the CBI had claimed to be in possession of fresh evidence against Mr

New Delhi, Dec 22: As his government sought to defend itself by asserting that it had no role in picking prosecutors or directing their work, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy left them red-faced. Swamy virtually blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ignoring his warnings about law officers who were not serious about fighting corruption. Swamy said: "This is not a setback at all. It's an aberration