Politics Today

The Karnataka chief minister, HD Kumaraswamy, is at the center of a political storm after being caught on camera asking government officials to “mercilessly shootout” men allegedly involved in killing a JD(S) worker in Mandya district, on Monday. Read More

Kamal Nath, the new chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, has kept out two Bahujan Samaj Party and one Samajwadi Party MLA from his 28-member cabinet, which took oath of office on Tuesday. Read More

Two legislators of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party proposed a resolution in the Delhi legislative assembly asking the Centre to withdraw the Bharat Ratna conferred upon former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi because of the anti-Sikh riots. Read More

A division bench of Calcutta high court, comprising Chief Justice Debasish Kargupta and Justice Shampa Sarka, put a stay on Thursday’s order by the single bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty, which had allowed the BJP to hold rath yatras in West Bengal. Read More

The Delhi high court rejected the plea of the publishers of National Herald, Associated Journals Limited, against the Centre’s October 30 order, which ended its 56-year-old lease of the building at Delhi’s Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, which the media house was using as its main office. Read More

A special CBI court, on Friday, acquitted all 22 accused arrested in the 2005 alleged fake-encounter killings of wanted criminal Sohrabuddin Shaikh and his associate, Tulsiram Prajapati along with the murder of Sohrabuddin’s wife, Kauser Bi. Read More

A Delhi court, on Friday, directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to cancel the look-out circular issued against former Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi, who is an accused in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland helicopter scam. Read More

The Union home secretary, Rajiv Gauba, issued an order, on Thursday, enabling 10 central agencies to access or intercept information stored or transmitted on or by any computer in the country. Read More

The Calcutta high court, on Thursday, allowed the state BJP to go ahead with its proposed rath yatras, which was scheduled to be flagged off by party chief Amit Shah, across West Bengal. Read More

A group of retired civil servants has demanded the resignation of Yogi Adityanath because he directed the state police to focus on the alleged cow slaughter that triggered the violence in Bulandshahr earlier this month, rather than the perpetrators of the violence. Read More