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New Delhi, Mar 17: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and two other AAP leaders including Deputy CM Manish Sisodia were today directed by a court here to appear before it later in the day in connection with a criminal defamation complaint, saying there was no ground for exemption from their appearance. Metropolitan Magistrate Mayuri Singh took strong view of absence of Kejriwal, Sisodia and

New Delhi, Mar 17: In a sign of reconciliation between warring factions of AAP, senior leaders from the Arvind Kejriwal camp met Yogendra Yadav late last night and held discussions over several contentious issues, hours after the Delhi Chief Minister's return from Bengaluru. Both the camps have termed the discussions as "positive". Party sources said AAP leaders Sanjay Singh and Kumar Vishwas

New Delhi, Mar 17: Giving a message of larger opposition unity, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will march with leaders of at least ten parties from Parliament House to President House today and submit a memorandum against the new land bill. The march is being coordinated by JD-U President Sharad Yadav. Sources in the Opposition said that Congress is

Ranchi, Mar 16: Congress today demanded a probe into the alleged snooping on party vice-president Rahul Gandhi as it claimed that the next targets could be persons from the bureaucracy, political parties and media. "We demand a judicial commission or a Parliamentary committee to probe the surveillance on Rahul Gandhi as it is aimed at suppressing democracy," AICC spokesman Ajay Kumar said at a

New Delhi, Mar 16: Opposition parties in Parliament today vociferously protested the "snooping" on Rahul Gandhi, with the government dismissing their contention saying they were making a "mountain out of what is not even a molehill", leading the Congress to walk out of Rajya Sabha. The government maintained in both the Houses that Delhi Police personnel had recently visited Rahul's residence to

New Delhi, Mar 16: The CBI probe into alleged sale of confidential documents from Finance Ministry has revealed that most of the records related to controversial Jet-Etihad deal were allegedly leaked with the help of officials in the FIPB. The sources said during questioning of suspects arrested by the agency and phone intercepts available with it, it has emerged that the Rs 2,058 crore Jet-Etihad

New Delhi, Mar 16: Government today countered the Congress charges of snooping on Rahul Gandhi saying it was making a "mountain out of what is not even a molehill" as information collection was part of a transparent security profiling used on 526 VIPs, including Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Ministers. Responding to charges of snooping and spying on political opponents by Opposition Congress and

New Delhi, Mar 16: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal may have inflicted a massive defeat on BJP in Delhi Assembly polls last month, but months earlier Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw him as a "small single city leader" not even worth "my time to ignore". These comments were made by Modi to former BBC journalist Lance Price in July last year explaining his decision not to name Kejriwal during the

Panaji, Mar 15: In a decision that could spark nationwide outrage, the BJP government in Goa has dropped Gandhi Jayanti on October 2 from the list of public holidays. Gandhi Jayanti, the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, has not been marked as a holiday in the current year’s calender, released on Saturday. The decision has triggered strong reactions from a section of legislators in

Bengaluru, Mar 15: British filmmaker Leslee Udwin who's controversial documentary India's daughter on the 2012 gang rape victim has been the subject of much talk in the country has claimed that the victim's friend Avanindra Pandey the sole witness to the gruesome incident asked for money to appear in the documentary. The film which was banned by the Indian government, Udwin has called the ban "