Kochi: Too much hype about former top cop and techie K Annamalai cost the BJP heavily in Tamil Nadu where the saffron party’s arrogance to ignore the mite of AIADMK failed to pay the dividends in 39 seats, political analysts said. A minnow in politics, Annamalai’s decision to call off ties with a party like …
Kochi: The culmination of the Lok Sabha election has ended in a funny situation where the loser claims to be a winner while the real champion is not in a mood to respond. Exploring possibilities of an impossible task of forming a government, the Congress-led I.N.D.I. alliance has mocked the Prime Minister for leading the …
Kochi: The rightist BJP scripted a new chapter in the political history by making a hat trick to win the Lok Sabha polls equalling the feat of country’s first Premier Jawaharlal Nehru. However, there is no scope for the saffron party to bask over the victory as it runs short of numbers to prove majority …
Kochi: The BJP on Tuesday shocked the political pundits when its action star Suresh Gopi proved his heroics by establishing an inimitable lead of over 72,000 votes in the cultural capital of Thrissur Lok Sabha seat. Upsetting the exit polls predictions carried out by a leading Malayalam daily and others, Gopi even disturbed his opponents …
Kochi: The Police arrested a woman for allegedly swapping her blood in place of her son who is accused of driving the car that killed two persons in Pune a few days back, media reports said. She is accused of conspiring with him in changing the blood sample collected to test alcohol content, media reports …
Kochi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi sat on a 45-hour meditation at Dhyan Mandapam at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on Thursday evening. The meditation will end in the evening of June 1.This is the place where Swami Vivekananda meditated 131 years ago. After the end of the final phase of Lok …
Kochi: In a blow to the Congress, senior partyParliamentarian Shashi Tharoor’s former staff was arrested in a gold smuggling case at the Delhi airport, media reports said. Shiv Kumar Prasad was nabbed for allegedly smuggling 500 gm of gold on Wednesday.Prasad was arrested along with another person for receiving whom Prasad had reached the airport. …
Kochi: Estranged Aam Aadmi Party MPSwati Maliwal today opposed granting bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Private Secretary Bibhav Kumar who was arrested for allegedly assaulting her, media reports said. Maliwal told a Delhi court which was hearing a bail plea of Bibhav that allowing bail to him would be a security threat to …
Kochi: Two doctors in Pune were arrested for allegedly manipulating the blood sample of a teenager who is accused of driving the Porsche car allegedly killing two persons the other day in Pune, media reports quoting Pune Police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said. Dr Ajay Taware, head of the forensics department and Dr Shrihari Harnor were …
Kochi: Passengers on board Kochi-bound flight escaped miraculously as the plane landed safely due to fire in one of its engines in Bengaluru, media reports said.The fire was noticed about five minutes afterthe Pune-Bengaluru-Kochi Air India Express 1132M took off from Bengaluru on Friday night.The passengers were evicted through the emergency exit.The fire brigade rushed …
Kochi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Personal AssistantBibhav Kumar was arrested by the Delhi Police today for allegedly assaulting AAP MP Swati Maliwal inside Kejriwal’s house the other day, media reports said.Swati accused Bibhav of slapping her many times and kicking her in the stomach and pelvic area when she had gone to the Chief …
Kochi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has finallyadmitted that its leader Swati Maliwal, MP,was misbehaved by Bibhav Kumar who isthe Personal Secretary of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh said thatChief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will take strict action against Bibhav Kumar who allegedly assaulted Maliwal at Chief Minister’s residence where she had …
Kochi: Fourteen people were killed and more than 70 injured after a heavy billboard fell on them in a storm in Mumbai on Monday, media reports said. The billboard crashed down on a fuel station crushing vehicles on the ground. The area where the hoarding was erected was under Maharashtra government’s Police Housing Division. Police …
Kochi: Former Bihar deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi of BJP passed away in a hospital in New Delhi, media reports said. Modi, 72, was suffering from cancer and was under treatment in the AIIMS. Modi had announced about his illness on the X on April 3. Born on January 5, 1952, to Moti Lal Modi …
Kochi: The BJP today claimed Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwalof Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had alleged that she was assaulted by Delhi Chief Minister’s personal assistant, media reports said. Reports said that calls purportedly made PCR by Swati Maliwal from the Chief Minister’s residence, alleging Bibhav Kumar assaulting her. Swati has not made any official statement …
Kochi: In a blow to the ED, the Supreme Court granted interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case until June 1 in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, media reports said. The Apex court directed Kejriwal to report before the police on June 2. A Division Bench has discouraged …
Kochi: Various trade union outfits of Indian Railways are observing today the golden jubilee year of the 1974 railway strike that led to imposition of Emergency in 1975. The 20-day strike by 17 lakh workers lasted from May 8 to May 27, 1974, and failed to evoke any response from the Congress government led by …
Kochi: Kerala recorded a polling of 39.26% till 1 pm in the second phase of Lok Sabha polls for 88 seats in 13 states on Friday, media reports said. There are 2.77 crore to seal the fate of the 194 candidates including Union Ministers Rajeev Chandrashekharan and V Muraleedharan of BJP in Kerala which has …
Kochi: The Supreme Court on Monday referred to a Constitution bench Kerala government‘s prayer seeking to raising the ceiling on net borrowing, media reports said. Kerala in its plea accused the Union government of arbitrarily restraining its borrowing limits pushing it into a financial emergency. The division Bench observed that the Centre had already allowed …
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Kochi: A Delhi court on Monday sent Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to 14 days judicial custody after the end of his custody with the ED which had arrested him in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case, media reports said. The ED told Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court that it was not asking for further remand …
