Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav left stage without addressing a joint rally in Phulpur on Sunday as the crowd broke through barricades and created a “stampede-like situation”. The leaders, out for the poll campaign ahead of the fifth phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh’s Phulpur, had to rush out of the event owing to security reasons as the mob of thousands turned uncontrolled. The rally was organised in favour of Amarnath Maurya who is contesting on an SP ticket from the Phulpur Lok Sabha seat. Reports said as Yadav and Gandhi reached the stage, scores of supporters…
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A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a hard landing on Sunday, as per Iranian state television. Reportedly, Raisi was travelling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. The incident happened near Jolfa, a city bordering Azerbaijan. According to the Iranian news agency, IRNA, Raisi met his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev earlier today and inaugurated Qiz Qalasi Dam jointly built by the two sides. Raisi was travelling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometres northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed profound concern on…
A team of Delhi Police on Sunday (May 19) seized a laptop and CCTV digital video record (DVR) from the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in connection with the AAP MP Swati Maliwal assault case. Along with this, some documents were also taken away by the Delhi Police from the Chief Minister’s residence. Maliwal claimed that the CCTV footage of the May 13 incident where she was allegedly assaulted has ‘disappeared’ and edited videos were being released. Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar was picked up at the CM’s residence and arrested in connection with the assault case on Saturday.…
BJP’s firebrand contestant, 49-year-old K Madhavi Latha, is unperturbed by sitting Hyderabad MP and AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi’s ‘larger than life image,’ and claims all he has given to the constituency is agony, fear and injustice. In an exclusive interview with India TV, Madhavi Latha targeted the Opposition and said that they have real issues to raise because Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed all the issues already and is working on the development issues. A classical dancer and entrepreneur, the 49 year-old Latha is set to take on Owaisi in his stronghold in the May 13 General Elections. Asked how she takes…
JD(S) patriarch and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, who turned 92 on Saturday, broke his silence on the sexual abuse charges leveled against his grandson and MP Prajwal Revanna. He stated that he has no objection to the action taken against him if found guilty. However, he mentioned that the cases against his son, JD(S) MLA HD Revanna, who is facing charges of sexual harassment and kidnapping of a woman, were ‘created’. He refrained from further commenting as the matter is sub judice. Announcing his decision not to celebrate his birthday,he alleged that the sexual abuse and kidnapping charges…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi exodus confidence that the BJP is going to scores a victory hatrick by winning all seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital Delhi. Addressing an election rally in North East Delhi on Saturday, which will vote in the sixth phase on May 25, he said that the 2024 election is to make India one of the top three ecnomics in the world. He took a dig at the members of the Opposition’s INDIA bloc saying they had come in the name of eliminating corruption but today are in jail due to scams worth crores of…
The Delhi police on Saturday arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar from the former’s residence for allegedly assaulting AAP MP Swati Maliwal. The Aam Aadmi Party MP had accused Bibhav Kumar of assaulting her grievously while she visited Kejriwal’s residence recently. In the FIR registered on the complaint of Maliwal by the Delhi Police, she alleged that she was “slapped, hit in the stomach and kicked” by Kumar. Maliwal claimed she ran out of the CM’s residence and called the police immediately after the incident. Kejriwal was present at his residence when the incident took place, she added. Based on Maliwal’s statement, Delhi police had registered FIR under sections 354, 506,…
The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday strongly refuted its MP Swati Maliwal allegations that she was `assaulted’ at the residence of Chief Minister Aravind Kejriwal on Monday and accused that she is part of a BJP conspiracy to discredit the party and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal amid the ongoing general elections. Days after AAP MP Sanjay Singh admitted that `mistake was done’ and `action will be taken’, Delhi Minister Atishi claims that `assault’ allegations are `baseless’. “Today a video has surfaced that has exposed the lie of Maliwal. In her FIR, she has said she was brutally assaulted and she was…
The enforcement directorate on Friday field a supplementary chargesheet in the money laundering case linked to the Delhi excise policy scam, naming the Aam Aadmi Party and its convenor Arvind Kejriwal as accused. This is the first time a political party is named as accused in a money laundering case. The ED filed the fresh chargesheet—the eighth in the liquor scam case—in the Rouse Avenue court in Delhi. The agency has arrested 18 people so far. The Delhi chief minister, who was arrested by the ED from his official residence on March 21, is currently out of jail on interim bail.…
Despite two decades of worldwide efforts, more than 4,000 precious wildlife species still fall prey to trafficking every year, a new report by the UN Crime and Drugs Prevention office, UNODC showed. The agency’s World Wildlife Crime Report takes stock of the efforts to counter poaching worldwide. Although there are positive signs that trafficking of some iconic species has decreased, including elephants and rhinoceroses – thanks to the dismantling of large trafficking networks and the suppression of demand in key markets – the overall picture is still gloomy for thousands of protected plants and animals. Wildlife crime has a profound global…