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Atna, Apr 6: Rebel Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Patna Sabhi MP Shatrughan Sinha formally joined the Congress on Saturday, April 6. In a series of tweets, the two-time Lok Sabha MP and former Union Minister said, “It’s with a heavy heart and immense pain that I finally bid adieu to my old party, for reasons best known to all of us, on 6th April, which also happens to be the Sansthapna Diwas of

Bhubaneswar, Apr 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the people of Odisha will defeat both the ruling BJD and the opposition Congress in the Lok Sabha and assembly elections to be held this month. "Odisha's election results will surprise the entire country. BJP will win the polls with record number of seats. People will reject both BJD and Congress," Modi said in a Twitter post ahead

Mumbai, Apr 5: A special court here Friday granted bail to Abdul Sathak, an alleged aide of acclaimed orator Dr Zakir Naik. Abdul Sathak was arrested on charge of allegedly involving in money laundering. Special PMLA court judge M S Azmi granted bail to Sathak on a surety of Rs 5,00,000. Sathak, a jeweller, was arrested last month under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). He is accused

Mumbai, Apr 5: More than 600 theatre personalities, including Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad and Usha Ganguli, have signed a letter asking people to "vote BJP and its allies" out of power, arguing that the idea of India and its constitution are under threat. The letter, which was issued Thursday evening in 12 languages on the Artist Unite India website, said the upcoming Lok Sabha

New Delhi, Apr 5: The Delhi government on Friday told a court that the Delhi Police filed a charge-sheet in the JNU sedition case in haste and secretly without getting the sanction of the competent authority. The government also told the court that it will take one more month to decide whether to grant sanction or not in the case. The Delhi government's submission came before Chief Metropolitan

New Delhi, Apr 5: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP leader Yogi Adityanath said on Friday that Muslim League is like a "deadly virus" and the Congress party is infested with it. He further said that if Congress and the Muslim League win the election then the virus would spread across the nation. "Muslim League is a virus. The type of virus which if somebody is infested with cannot be saved and

New Delhi, Apr 5: The Supreme Court Friday expressed dissatisfaction over the replies filed by former Ranbaxy promoters Malvinder Singh and Shivinder Singh in response to its March 14 direction asking them to submit a concrete plan for paying Rs 4,000 crore to Daiichi Sankyo as directed by a Singapore tribunal. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it will now straightaway hear the

London, Apr 5: Embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya is willing to curtail his "lavish" lifestyle to satisfy numerous Indian banks trying to recoup some of the nearly 1.145 billion pounds owed to them, a UK court was told. The 63-year-old had been sanctioned an "ordinary living expenses allowance" of a maximum of 18,325.31 pounds a week, which he offered to cut down to around 29,500 pounds a month

New Delhi, Apr 5: BJP president Amit Shah has said that it was his party's decision not to give Lok Sabha poll tickets to those above 75 years of age, leading to veteran leaders like L K Advani and Murali Manohar Joshi missing out. Shah also said he wanted "direct mandate" from people to come to Parliament and that is why he decided to contest the general election. He, however, played down

New Delhi, Apr 5: Christian Michel, the alleged middleman arrested in the AgustaWestland VVIP choppers deal case, is understood to have identified the initials "AP" as Ahmed Patel in a chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) before a court here on Thursday. The agency, in its supplementary chargesheet filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), said "a part of kickback