
Vice-president and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar administered the oath to them in the new Parliament house building.

Addressing a press conference, Rai, who is also a cabinet minister in the Kejriwal government, gave a call for a nationwide fast against the arrest of the party national convener.

The court on Monday sought responses from the commission and the central government on the plea seeking a complete count of VVPAT slips in polls as opposed to the current practice of verification of only five randomly selected EVMs through VVPAT paper slips.

Moitra, who was re-nominated by the TMC from the same Krishnanagar seat after being expelled last year, accused the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of acting as "political agents of the saffron camp".

Such an action by the ED would pave the way for the agency to attach AAP’s accounts, properties and assets, News18 has learnt. Senior ED officers said the AAP may suffer the same financial fate as the Congress in terms of attachment of accounts or freezing of funds, but for different reasons.

Married to Saayan Kunal, son of philanthropist and scholar Acharya Kishore Kunal, a former IPS officer, who is credited with appointing several Dalit priests in temples in Bihar, Shambhavi is the daughter of Bihar minister Ashok Choudhary, who has held several key roles in the Bihar cabinet.

While Atiq Ahmed was shot dead in police custody by miscreants, the family of Mukhtar Ansari alleges he was ‘slow poisoned’ to death inside prison

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report in its probe into the alleged irregularities in the leasing of aircraft by NACIL, a company formed by the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines during the UPA era, as there was no "evidence of any wrongdoing", officials said Thursday.

With the Election Commission having sounded the poll bugle, political parties have started campaigning in full throttle. With less than a month before the first phase of polling for the general election, parties want their outreach initiatives to yield maximum political dividends before the world's biggest democratic exercise gets underway. Here are the top political developments of the day!

The minister was replying to questions about the government using central agencies against opposition leaders and sparing those who had joined the BJP.

That right, which is separate from the provision to vote under NOTA, can be exercised under the 'Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 Rule 49-O', which elaborates the little-known option for electors to abstain from voting even after reaching the polling booth.

Arvind Kejriwal's blood sugar level dropped to 46 Mg at one point of time and according to doctors, such a drop is "very dangerous", they claimed.

There was stiff competition between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar for the Chief Minister's post after the Assembly election results in May last year, and the Congress had managed to convince the latter and made him the Deputy Chief Minister.

China on Monday continued to claim that Arunachal Pradesh has "always been" its territory, notwithstanding India dismissing Beijing's claim as "absurd" and "ludicrous".

As the Kangana Ranaut-Supriya Shrinate matter escalates, netizens remind the actress of her remarks against Urmila Matondkar back in 2020.

They gathered near the Ferozshah Kotla stadium and marched towards the Delhi Secretariat, raising slogans against Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and alleging corruption in his government.

Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy, managing director of Obalapuram Mining Company (OMC), were arrested by the CBI on September 5, 2011.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has recently announced the schedule for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, spanning seven phases from April 19 to June 1, with results expected on June 4. This announcement also initiates the implementation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC), which sets guidelines for political parties and leaders during the election period. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar has urged strict adherence to the MCC, emphasizing its importance in ensuring fair elections. Watch this video as Moneycontrol’s Sahil Jain explains the key details.

Along with the Lok Sabha, the Andhra Pradesh assembly will also go to polls in the next couple of months. And the two state rivals — YSR Congress and TDP — are gearing up financially, with the latter miles ahead in recent months. Meanwhile, AAP encashed electoral bonds worth just Rs 2.5 crore in the 10 months before the February 2020 Delhi assembly elections.

Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday in connection with the excise policy-linked money laundering case.

The tussle between the two sides began with their almost simultaneous rise to power with the BJP led by Narendra Modi receiving a massive mandate in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and the AAP forming the government in Delhi with a historic victory a year later by winning 67 assembly seats out of 70.

The challenge before the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) now is to come up with a worthy leader who could handle both the party and its government in Delhi in absence of Kejriwal.

Rai said Kejriwal's arrest is the "murder of democracy" and an "announcement of dictatorship".

After the freedom movement, we have never had a national ambition and a clarion call like (becoming developed by 2047), union minister Smriti Irani said

This is the first time such a roadshow, on a grand scale, has been organised by the BJP in Tamil Nadu, which witnessed a good turnout.