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Post win, 3 including Northeast Delhi councillor, Cong VP move to AAP

New Delhi: In a jolt to the Congress days after being drubbed in the MCD polls, the party’s Delhi unit vice president Ali Mehdi and two newly-elected councillors joined the Aam Aadmi…
Delhi HC’s observations in Umar Khalid’s bail won’t prejudice Sharjeel Imam’s case: SC

Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday clarified the observations made in respect of JNU student Sharjeel Imam in the Delhi High Court verdict, which rejected the bail plea of co-accused Umar Khalid…

Aaftab Poonawala should be hanged for killing my daughter: Shraddha Walkar’s father

Mumbai: Vikas Walkar, father of Shraddha Walkar who was murdered allegedly by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala in Delhi, on Friday demanded that the accused be hanged to death for killing his daughter.…
Phone-tapping, recording calls without consent a breach of privacy, says Delhi HC

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday, while granting bail to former Mumbai Police chief Sanjay Pandey in a money laundering case, observed that phone-tapping or recording calls without the individual’s…
Delhi Riots 2020: Police opposes before HC bail plea by Khalid Saifi

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Thursday before the Delhi High Court opposed the bail plea of United Against Hate (UAH) founder Khalid Saifi in a UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy…
BJP govt using high dignitary to run down collegium system: TMC MP in LS

Delhi: TMC Lok Sabha member Saugata Roy on Thursday alleged that the central government is “using a high dignitary” to run down the collegium system of appointing Supreme Court and high court…
Gujarat Congress in-charge Raghu Sharma resigns after party’s defeat in Assembly polls

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Congress in-charge Raghu Sharma has resigned taking moral responsibility of the party’s defeat in the state Assembly polls, party office-bearers said on Thursday.Sharma had led the so-called ‘silent campaign’ against…

Kashmiri Pandits mass killing: SC tosses out curative petition over “mass murder”

Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a curative petition seeking reconsideration of its 2017 order dismissing a plea which had sought an investigation into the alleged mass murder of Kashmiri Pandits in…
Bhupendra Patel to continue as Gujarat CM: Paatil

Gandhinagar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which looks set to register a landslide victory in Gujarat Assembly polls with a record number of seats, on Thursday said Bhupendra Patel would continue as…
67 per cent of councillors elected to MCD are crorepatis, says report

Delhi: At least 67 per cent of the 250 newly elected councillors in the MCD are crorepatis, according to an Association for Democratic Reforms report. In 2017, when 270 wards of the then…
BJP trying to poach AAP councillors: Sisodia

New Delhi: After the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday secured a comfortable majority to wrest power from the BJP in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia…
MCD gets its first transgender councillor as AAP’s Bobby wins from Sultanpuri

New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi, on Wednesday, got its first transgender councillor after AAP’s Bobby Kinnar won the civic polls from Sultanpuri-A ward. Bobby (38) was given a ticket from…
Shaheen Bagh: Cong wins Abul Fazal Enclave, Zakir Nagar wards in MCD polls

New Delhi: Women candidates from the Congress have emerged as winners in two wards in south Delhi which includes the Shaheen Bagh area, the epicentre of the 2019 anti-CAA protests, defeating their…
MCD polls: BJP fares well in riot-hit northeast Delhi, other trans-Yamuna areas

New Delhi: Despite losing the MCD polls, the BJP fared well in trans Yamuna areas, including northeast Delhi that was rocked by communal riots in 2020, but its performance took a hit…
‘Racist’: Delhi HC rejects PIL seeking deportation of Africans

New Delhi: Terming it “racist”, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected a a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking police verification of passports of all people from Africa as well as Bangladeshis…