Politics Today

The Supreme Court has ordered the Center to furnish pricing details of controversial Rafale deal. The government has so far maintained that the details of the defence deal are “confidential” due to a “secrecy clause”. Read More

The Bihar government has told the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, that they are unable to trace Manju Verma, who a former social-welfare minister and one of the accused of Muzaffarpur shelter-home case. Read More

The Supreme Court has ordered to transfer Brajesh Thakur, the main accused in the Muzaffarpur shelter-home horror case, to Patiala jail. He is currently lodged in Bihar’s Bhagalpur jail. Read More

The Aam Aadmi Party’s 22-member core committee has announced their five Lok Sabha candidates for Punjab to contest for 2019 Lok Sabha election. The party has introduced three new candidates. Read More

The National Investigation Agency charged all seven accused in 2008 Malegaon blasts case, including Lieutenant Colonel Srikant Purohit and Pragya Singh Thakur, with terror conspiracy, murder and other related offences, on Monday. Read More

The Bhartiya Janata Party, with an aim to win a large chunk of minority votes in West Bengal, is contemplating to field more Muslim candidates in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Read More

In a fresh Naxalite attack near Maoist-infected Dantewada district’s Aranpur village, a Doordarshan cameraman and two policemen were killed. Two more policemen sustained injuries in the attack and were sent to a nearby hospital for treatment. Read More

The Supreme Court has decided to ease the restrictions on timing for bursting firecrackers in states such as Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The court has allowed the states to fix the timing, but not to exceed limit of two hours. Read More

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has asked voters of Chhattisgarh to vote for the Congress to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party candidates in the upcoming assembly poll where the CPM and other Left parties have not fielded any candidate. Read More

A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice SK Kaul and Justice K M Joseph has posted the Ayodhya land-dispute case in the first week of January to fix a date for hearing of the case before an appropriate bench. Read More