AAP names candidates for 6 Delhi LS seats, no alliance with Congress

The Aam Aadmi Party, on Saturday, announced names of the candidates for six of the seven Delhi seats for the upcoming Lok Sabha election. It also blamed the Congress for the breakdown of coalition talks between the two parties. Read More
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Opposition leaders join Kejriwal’s rally to throw out Modi govt

In the rally, titled “Remove Dictatorship, Save Democracy”, the leaders slammed the BJP government by calling it a “threat to democracy” and said it must be defeated in the coming general election. Read More
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Court slams Delhi govt for ‘delaying sanction’ to try Kanhaiya

The Delhi Police informed a trial court that it had failed to procure prosecution sanction against the former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president, Kanhaiya Kumar, and other co-accused in the 2016 Jawaharlal Nehru University sedition case. Read More
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HC dismisses petition for SIT/CBI probe into cases of clergy sex abuse

The PIL had also asked the court to direct the Delhi Police to set up a hotline number for clergy abuse that will help victims and survivors of sexual abuse to come forward and seek justice and ask churches across India to display the number for victims. Read More
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HC to FB, Google, Twitter: Remove video with anti-Ramdev content

The video has showed excerpts of a book on Ramdev named “Godman to Tycoon”, that the high court had ordered to delete. The book was written by Priyanka Pathak-Narain and was originally published in 2017. Read More
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CJI recuses himself from hearing plea on Rao’s CBI appointment

Justice Ranjan Gogoi, the Chief Justice of India, recused himself from hearing a plea that has challenged the appointment of M Nageshwar Rao as the interim chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation. Read More
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EC to Delhi Police: Probe fake news on Lok Sabha poll dates

The purported fake news claims that the polling for the general election will start from April 7 to May 17. It also listed dates of polling for different states. The news has been circulating on popular social-media platforms, including Facebook and WhatsApp. Read More
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JNU sedition case: Kanhaiya, Umar Khalid among 10 charged

The Delhi Police, on Monday, filed a 1,200-page chargesheet against 10 people in the 2016 case where a group of students and activists allegedly raised anti-India slogans in the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, in New Delhi. Read More
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Reuters journalist denied entry into India for violating visa rules

Cathal McNaughton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who works as a chief photographer with Reuters news agency at its Delhi office, has been denied re-entry into India for allegedly violating visa rules. Read More
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Rift in AAP over move to withdraw Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna

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
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