Friday, 22 November 2024
Friday, 22 November 2024
Enforcement Directorate said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was a 'key conspirator' in the liquor scam case along with other ministers and AAP leaders, as it sought his 10-day custody from a court in Delhi. He demanded Rs 100 crore from some accused from 'South group' for contesting the Punjab elections, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju, who is appearing for the agency, told the court.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi received Bhutan’s highest civilian award, the ‘Order of the Druk Gyalpo,’ the first foreign Head of the Government to receive the honour. Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck awarded the ‘Order of the Druk Glyalpo’ to Prime Minister Modi.
Delhi Cabinet ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj were detained in Delhi as AAP leaders staged a protest against the BJP over the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate in the excise policy case. At their protest at ITO, the AAP supporters raised slogans against the BJP-led Centre government and demanded the release of their leaders.
The body of another person, who had been missing since the collapse of a five-storey building in the city's Garden Reach area, was recovered by rescue workers from underneath the debris, four days after the mishap, taking the death toll to 11, police said. "The body of Sheru was recovered from underneath the debris around midnight last night," a police officer said.
A team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at the residence of West Bengal minister Chandranath Sinha in Bolpur in Birbhum district in connection with its investigation into the alleged school recruitment scam, officials said. "The search is in connection with the investigation of the alleged irregularities in the school recruitment scam. The minister is not present at his residence, we are talking to his family," an officer said.
Supreme Court refused to grant bail to BRS leader K Kavitha, who has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in the Delhi excise policy scam case. The bench said as far as Kavitha’s plea challenging the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) is concerned, the court is issuing notice to the ED and seeking its response in six weeks.
ISRO said it has achieved a major milestone in the area of reusable launch vehicle technology through the RLV LEX-02 landing experiment. After the RLV-LEX-01 mission was accomplished last year, RLV-LEX-02 demonstrated the autonomous landing capability of reusable launch vehicle (RLV) from off-nominal initial conditions at release from helicopter, the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency said in a statement.
One person was killed and nine people injured as a portion of an under-construction bridge collapsed in Bihar's Supaul district in the early hours, officials said. NHAI Regional Officer YB Singh said that 10 labourers were trapped under the debris after the accident.
A team of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) began a survey of the controversial Bhojshala/Kamal Maula Mosque complex situated in the tribal-dominated Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh. A heavy police force has been deployed at the site, eyewitnesses said.
Ram Mandir Rath Yatra will kick off from Chicago in US on Monday to travel to 851 temples in 48 states, crossing more than 8,000 miles over the next 60 days, organisers said. The Canada section of the Ratha Yatra – separate one – is being organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of Canada.
