New Delhi : Delhi CM and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal today alleged that the elections in Punjab were rigged and that 25-30 per cent of AAP’s votes may have been ‘transferred’ to the SAD-BJP alliance. He claimed the Centre could have “masterminded” the election results in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand as well […]
New Delhi : Describing the US response to recent hate crimes against Indians settled there as “prompt and clear”, the government today said it had no plans of issuing an advisory for Indians travelling to the US or residing there. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who attended the Lok Sabha for the first time since […]
Honolulu/New York, March 16 : Just hours before President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban was set to go into effect, a US federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued an emergency halt to the order’s implementation. The action was the latest legal blow to the administration’s efforts to temporarily ban refugees as well as travelers […]
Chandigarh, March 16 : Supreme Court lawyer and senior advocate Atul Nanda was on Thursday appointed as Punjab Advocate-General. He replaces senior advocate Ashok Aggarwal, who resigned as the state’s top law officer soon after the change of guard in Punjab almost six years after he was appointed by the previous SAD-BJP government. A prominent […]
Chandigarh, March 16 : After steering the Congress to a stupendous victory, Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday took oath as Punjab Chief Minister. Seventy-five-year-old Amarinder was sworn in as the state’s 26th Chief Minister along with nine ministers, including Navjot Singh Sidhu. Speculation was rife that the cricketer-turned politician would be given the post of […]