New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking to withdraw his plea against his arrest by the ED in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, hours after the apex court agreed to hear the matter. Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, representing Kejriwal, mentioned the matter before a bench headed by […]
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday night in an excise policy-linked money laundering case, officials said. The arrest, the first of a sitting chief minister, came hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant protection to the AAP national convenor from any coercive action […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has opted not to stay the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023 (CEC Act), which outlines the procedure for appointing Chief Election Commissioners (CEC) and Election Commissioners (EC). A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta also refused […]
SRINAGAR: Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said voting is the only power left with people of Jammu and Kashmir as the BJP-ruled Centre is making all efforts to suppress their voices. “All kinds of injustices are being done and Jammu and Kashmir has been turned into a jail. To suppress the voice […]
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday made public a fresh data set of electoral bonds, including their alpha-numeric numbers that can help match their purchasers with the political parties that received the funds. Two separate lists of the donors and the recipients were published by the poll panel on its website after the details […]
New Delhi: The Election Commission Thursday directed the Centre to “immediately halt” sending bulk WhatsApp messages under the “Viksit Bharat Sampark” to highlight the government’s initiatives. The Commission issued the direction to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology after it received complaints about the matter. “The move is a part of a series of […]
New Delhi: Elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be conducted before September 30, Union Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday. Speaking at CNN-News18 Rising India Summit 2024 in New Delhi, Shah said, “Voting in Jammu and Kashmir will happen before the Supreme Court of India’s deadline of September 30.” On December 11, 2023, the apex […]
Jammu: The notification for the Lok Sabha poll in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur constituency on April 19 was issued on Wednesday, an election official said. The Udhampur-Kathua constituency is one of 102 segments across the country going to the polls in the first phase on April 19. Kathua District Magistrate Rakesh Minhas, who is also […]
SRINAGAR: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Wednesday claimed the Centre was using all its might to defeat the National Conference in the Lok Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir. The NC does not take any elections lightly and is preparing for Lok Sabha elections, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said. “No elections […]
Kargil: Shops and business establishments were closed as thousands of people marched on Wednesday in support of their demand for statehood and Ladakh’s inclusion in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. Separately, the hunger strike by climate activist Sonam Wangchuk in Leh to “remind” the BJP-led Centre of its promise to safeguard the Union Territory’s […]