In a relief for Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker, Attorney General K.K. Venugopal refused to give his consent for initiating proceedings for criminal contempt of court against her for allegedly making "derogatory and scandalous" statements against the Supreme Court in connection with Ayodhya title dispute case verdict....
Ahead of the Congress Working Committee meeting on Monday, interim chief Sonia Gandhi has communicated to members of the party's highest decision-making body that she was not interested in continuing and asked them to find a new chief, sources said, even as two Chief Ministers have come out to back the Gandhis' leadership....
Amid reports of interim chief Sonia Gandhi offering to quit in the wake of a letter by a group of leaders demanding a change in the Congress leadership and reforms in the party, the "palace coup" has intrigued workers and leaders alike and all eyes are on the Monday meeting of the Congress Working Committee...
...
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has urged former Congress President Rahul Gandhi to take charge of the party again so that it reaches new heights after overcoming the present crisis and urged dissident leaders not to go public with their disagreements....
In a major setback to dissenters seeking a leadership change in the Congress, all four party Chief Ministers and various state units have sided with the Gandhis and lashed out against those who had written the letter for change and leaked it to the media....
A Delhi Police Special Cell team seized around 8 to 9 kgs of explosives apart from suicide jackets and vests following a search at arrested ISIS operative Mohammad Mustakim Khan alias Abu Yusuf Khan's house in Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh, a senior police officer said on Sunday. ...
Kafeel Ahmed, the father of the alleged ISIS operative Abdul Yusuf Khan, who was arrested in Delhi, has said he knew his son as a 'very good person' and he could have never imagined that his son would take to terrorism....
Amidst tumult and upsurge within a directionless and rudderless Congress, which has virtually been on auto pilot since the last Lok Sabha election, the leadership deficit that is costing the party dearly virtually every day, is once again grabbing centre-stage. ...
Samajwadi Party MLC, Sunil Kumar Sajan, has alleged that UP minister and former cricketer Chetan Chauhan, who succumbed to Covid-19 in a Gurugram hospital, died due to carelessness in his treatment earlier at the state-run Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) here....
