India

New Delhi, March 27: Rejecting the dialogue offer on the controversial land bill, Sonia Gandhi on Friday alleged it was a mockery of the consensus building tradition by a “myopic” Modi government which was “bending backwards” to favour industrialists and demanded that UPA’s legislation be brought back in totality. “Proposition of a post-facto debate after unilateral imposition of anti-farmer law

New Delhi, March 27: In further escalation of infighting, AAP dissident leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav today mounted a no-holds-barred attack on party chief Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of stifling internal democracy and adopting unfair means to capture power. Addressing a press conference, the two leaders alleged that any issue raised by them was being projected as questioning

New Delhi, Mar 27: Amid speculation that dissenting founder members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan could be shown the door in the AAP's national council meeting on Saturday, Kumar Vishwas said on Friday that the "rebel duo" should "quit and exit the party gracefully". Another AAP leader Ashutosh on Friday said the possibility of a truce with dissident leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant

New Delhi, Mar 26: Reconciliation talks between the two warring factions in AAP have collapsed following which two prominent leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan today accused Arvind Kejriwal camp of trying to force them to resign from the national executive and not heeding to any of their concerns. In an open letter to Kejriwal two days ahead of AAP's crucial national council meeting

Nashik, Mar 26: In the first case registered under the new beef ban law in Maharashtra, three persons have been booked for allegedly slaughtering calves in Malegaon town of the district and search is on to trace them.Acting on a tip-off, police raided a shack in Azad Nagar area, about 90 kms from here, and seized two heads of slaughtered calves and 150 kg of beef, assistant police inspector

New Delhi, Mar 26: Reconciliation talks between the two warring factions in AAP, appeared to have been collapsed today with chief minister Arvind Kejriwal insisting on Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan quitting the National Executive, ahead of the crucial National Council meeting on March 28. Sources said Yadav and Bhushan made it clear that there was no valid ground for them to step down from

New Delhi, Mar 25: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh filed an appeal in the Supreme Court on Wednesday against the summons issued to him by a trial court in connection with the coal blocks allocation scam. Industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the Aditya Birla group, has also moved the apex court against the summons issued to him. The court has asked Birla to appear in court over the

Bengaluru, Mar 25: Ever since Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi took a 'leave of absence' to reflect on a series of electoral defeats for his party and chart its future course, there has been no news of his whereabouts, therefore residents of his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi have put up posters with a reward for information on their ''Missing MP". The posters which allege that Rahul lacks

New Delhi, Mar 23: Home Minister Rajnath Singh has asked Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh to ensure expeditious probe of unresolved terror cases in their respective states, saying arrest of the guilty will be the "best recipe" to prevent similar attacks in future. In separate letters to O Panneerselvam (Tamil Nadu), Siddaramaiah (Karnataka) and Shivraj Singh Chouhan

New Delhi, Mar 23: Shortly after representing the Government at the national day reception at Pakistan High Commission tonight which kicked up a storm, Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh issued a series of intriguing tweets defining "disgust" and "duty" indicating that he may have been unhappy at being deputed to it. In the first of the five quick tweets, Singh, a former Army Chief