Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will head the BJP’s manifesto committee for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, scheduled to take place in a few weeks. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be the convenor of the committee while Union Minister Piyush Goyal will be co-convenor. Apart from these, 24 people will be included as members of this committee. Arjun Munda, Bhupendra Yadav, Arjunram Meghwal, Kiren Rijiju, Ashwini Vaishnav, Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupendra Patel, Himanta Vishwasarma, Vishnudev Sai, Mohan Yadav, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Vasundhara Raje, Smriti Irani, Jual Oram, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Sushil Modi, Keshav Prasad Maurya, Rajiv Chandrashekhar, Vinod Tawde, Radhamohan Das Agarwal,…
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The Ministry of Home Affairs has accorded sanction for CBI inquiry against jailed AAP leader Satyendar Jain under the Prevention of Corruption (POC) Act, for allegedly extorting Rs 10 crores from notorious conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who was then lodged in Tihar Jail, government sources said on Friday. Delhi LG, VK Saxena in February this year, had sent the proposal of the CBI to MHA for granting approval to prosecute/ investigate Jain u/s 17A of PoC Act, they added. Jain is accused of extorting Rs 10 crore as “protection money” from Sukesh Chandrashekhar. Jain and former Tihar Jail DG Sandeep Goyal are accused of…
Actor Kangana Ranaut began her Lok Sabha election campaign in Mandi constituency on Friday with a roadshow, hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi with “Jai Shri Ram” and asserting that the BJP’s main agenda is development. A large number of people turned up to see the Bollywood actor, a four-time National Award winner who was born in Mandi’s Bhambla town. Amidst the chants of “Jai Shri Ram”, the BJP workers welcomed Ranaut by showering flowers on her and dancing to the beat of drums. Ranaut started the roadshow in her home town with “Modi Ji ko Jai Shri Ram”. She hailed other…
A chief judicial magistrate’s court in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari. This comes as Ansari’s son wrote to the District Magistrate that the postmortem examination be carried out by the doctors of AIIMS, Delhi. The investigation team will be headed by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA Court Banda) Garima Singh, said the order issued by Banda Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bhagwan Das Gupta. The CJM has sought the probe report within a month. As for the postmortem examination, a panel of two doctors will do the post-mortem, which will be videographed.…
Tanele Maseko, a prominent Eswatini human rights activist and widow of the esteemed lawyer and human rights advocate Thulani Maseko, was detained for questioning by Eswatini authorities on Wednesday. Tanele Maseko has been identified as a “wanted person” in the investigation into her husband’s murder. Along with her two minor children, she was held for four hours before being released. Tanele and her family now face movement restrictions within Eswatini, and her mobile phones have been seized. Tanele has been summoned for further questioning on March 28, 2024, and once more on April 2, 2024. Notably, the police are not permitting…
In an outrageous incident, a woman reporter from the Press Trust of India (PTI) was verbally abused and physically assaulted by a reporter working for news agency ANI. The incident, which was caught on camera and posted from the official X handle of PTI, shows Elezabeth, the woman reporter, and ANI reporter Raghavendra engaged in a heated argument, after which Raghavendra is seen slapping her a couple of times. He only stopped after he was forcibly pushed back by other people around them. The incident took place on Thursday, in Bengaluru, during a press meet by Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK…
A special NDPS court in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on Thursday sentenced former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to 20 years of imprisonment in a case of alleged drug planting dating back to 1996. Special Public Prosecutor Amit Patel said the court of additional sessions judge JN Thakkar sentenced Bhatt to 20 years’ imprisonment under NDPS sections 21(c), 27A (punishment for financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders) along with a fine of Rs 2 lakh under each of the two offences. The Court on Wednesday had held Bhatt guilty under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act sections 21(c), 27A (punishment for financing…
Arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a Delhi Court that the Enforcement Directorate’s motive is to crush the Aam Aadmi Party and he is ready to face probe in the money laundering case registered in connection with scrapped liquor policy. The AAP leader himself made submissions in Court on Thursday. Kejriwal was produced in the Court of Special CBI judge Kaveri Baweja in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue as his remand custody with ED ended on Thursday. The Court remanded him to four days of ED custody, till April 1. The central agency sought seven-day custody of the chief minister…
The Ministry of External Affairs, on Thursday, dubbed the second remarks by a US official on the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as “unacceptable and unwarranted”. “We had already summoned a senior US diplomat. Any such external imputation to electoral and legal processes is completely unacceptable. In India, legal processes are driven only by the rule of law. Anyone who has a similar ethos, especially fellow democracies, should have no difficulty in appreciating this fact,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a weekly press briefing. The statement from New Delhi came as Matthew Miller, a representative from the US…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who approached the Delhi High Court, seeking release from Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) custody in the liquor scam case, didn’t get any relief from the court. The High Court will hear the matter next on April 3. The court has issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate on a plea moved by Kejriwal raising issues of legality and validity regarding the arrest and remand and sought ED’s response on the main petition as well as the application for interim release of the petitioner by April 2. The bench of Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma stated that the respondent…