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New Delhi, Mar 18: A month after assuming power in the national capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced on Tuesday that it has decided to go national. Confirming the latest development, AAP leader Sanjay Singh told the media that the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) has decided to expand the party in other states, an issue over which senior leader Yogendra Yadav had come under fire as he had

New Delhi, Mar 17: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and dissident AAP leader Yogendra Yadav were today forced to appear before a Delhi Court in a criminal defamation case after their failure to do so drew a stinging remark by the judge that they have "no respect for law". "There is nothing to reflect why the accused (Kejriwal, Sisodia and Yadav) have not appeared. Accused

New Delhi, Mar 17: The Lok Sabha witnessed noisy scenes during Zero Hour on Tuesday when the Congress and the AIADMK raised the issue of desecration of a church in Hisar, the rape of a nun in West Bengal and a communally objectionable statement made by senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in Assam. Raising the issue, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said, “I want to draw the attention of my colleagues to

New Delhi, Mar 17: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and two other AAP leaders including Deputy CM Manish Sisodia were today directed by a court here to appear before it later in the day in connection with a criminal defamation complaint, saying there was no ground for exemption from their appearance. Metropolitan Magistrate Mayuri Singh took strong view of absence of Kejriwal, Sisodia and

New Delhi, Mar 17: In a sign of reconciliation between warring factions of AAP, senior leaders from the Arvind Kejriwal camp met Yogendra Yadav late last night and held discussions over several contentious issues, hours after the Delhi Chief Minister's return from Bengaluru. Both the camps have termed the discussions as "positive". Party sources said AAP leaders Sanjay Singh and Kumar Vishwas

New Delhi, Mar 17: Giving a message of larger opposition unity, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will march with leaders of at least ten parties from Parliament House to President House today and submit a memorandum against the new land bill. The march is being coordinated by JD-U President Sharad Yadav. Sources in the Opposition said that Congress is

Ranchi, Mar 16: Congress today demanded a probe into the alleged snooping on party vice-president Rahul Gandhi as it claimed that the next targets could be persons from the bureaucracy, political parties and media. "We demand a judicial commission or a Parliamentary committee to probe the surveillance on Rahul Gandhi as it is aimed at suppressing democracy," AICC spokesman Ajay Kumar said at a

New Delhi, Mar 16: Opposition parties in Parliament today vociferously protested the "snooping" on Rahul Gandhi, with the government dismissing their contention saying they were making a "mountain out of what is not even a molehill", leading the Congress to walk out of Rajya Sabha. The government maintained in both the Houses that Delhi Police personnel had recently visited Rahul's residence to

New Delhi, Mar 16: The CBI probe into alleged sale of confidential documents from Finance Ministry has revealed that most of the records related to controversial Jet-Etihad deal were allegedly leaked with the help of officials in the FIPB. The sources said during questioning of suspects arrested by the agency and phone intercepts available with it, it has emerged that the Rs 2,058 crore Jet-Etihad

New Delhi, Mar 16: Government today countered the Congress charges of snooping on Rahul Gandhi saying it was making a "mountain out of what is not even a molehill" as information collection was part of a transparent security profiling used on 526 VIPs, including Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Ministers. Responding to charges of snooping and spying on political opponents by Opposition Congress and