Maliwal 'assault' linked to Kejriwal's desire to send senior lawyer to Rajya Sabha, claims Delhi BJP The Delhi BJP on Sunday claimed Chief Minister Kejriwal wanted to send a senior lawyer to the Rajya Sabha and the alleged assault on Swati Maliwal, an AAP member of the Upper House, was connected to it. The BJP's Delhi unit chief Virendra Sachdeva also asked how AAP came to the conclusion about the saffron party's involvement in the matter when Maliwal was allegedly assaulted at Kejriwal's reside

3 jailed in Patanjali Soanpapadi case in Uttarakhand A court here has sentenced three people to six months' imprisonment for violating food safety standards in making Patanjali Elaichi Soanpapadi. Assistant Prosecution Officer Ritesh Verma said that Pithoragarh Chief Judicial Magistrate Sanjay Singh on Saturday also imposed fines of Rs 5,000 to Rs 25,000 on them, besides the jail sentence. Verma said that the court sentenced Leeladhar Pathak, a shopkeeper from the Berinag town of Pithoragarh, to

Bihar govt school teacher jailed for saying 'nobody should vote for Modi' inside classroom A government school teacher in Bihar has been arrested and sent to jail for allegedly telling children in his class ''nobody should vote for Modi'', an official said on Sunday. According to Muzaffarpur SSP Rakesh Kumar, the teacher has been booked for violating the election model code of conduct, after an FIR lodged by the district education officer. DEO Ajay Kumar Singh said teacher Harendra Rajak's condu

Bevy of high-profile candidates to test their luck in 7 south Bengal LS seats on Monday A bevy of high-profile candidates, from ministers to actors, would test their luck in the hustings on Monday as seven Lok Sabha constituencies in the southern part of West Bengal go for polls in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections. A total of 1,25,23,702 voters 63,51,320 men, 61,72,034 women and 348 third-genders are eligible to exercise their franchise in 13,481 polling stations across the seven con

UP: Class 10 student suffers partial hearing loss after being beaten up by teacher; FIR lodged A teacher of a private school here has been booked for allegedly thrashing a Class 10 student, leading to partial loss of hearing, the police said on Sunday. The incident took place on May 13 in the school located in Piprauli Barhagaon under the Ubhaon police station limits here during a mathematics period that the 14-year-old victim, Prateek, was attending, they added. Prateek's father Praveen Kumar M

3,300 CISF contingent to take full charge of Parliament security from May 20; CRPF exits More than 3,300 CISF personnel will take over the complete counterterrorism and anti-sabotage security duties at the Parliament complex from Monday following the withdrawal of over 1,400 CRPF staff from the country's most important symbol of democracy, official sources said. The parliament duty group (PDG) of the CRPF wound up its entire administrative and operational paraphernalia -- vehicles, weapons and c

Chinese ambassador promises 'friendship' and 'cooperation' as 2 Chinese warships dock in Cambodia Two Chinese warships docked on Sunday at a commercial port in Cambodia, in preparation for joint naval exercises between the two countries. The Jingangshan amphibious warfare ship and Qijiguang training ship sailed in to the Sihanoukville Port as onlookers waved Cambodian and Chinese flags from the piers. The port is north of the Ream Naval Base, where China has funded a broad expansion project that

Farooq Abdullah demands international investigation agencies probe recent killings in JK Condemning the shooting of a man and a couple by terrorists in two different incidents in Shopian and Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) Chief Farooq Abdullah said that terrorism continues to exist here. Terrorism still exists here. No matter which party member he (BJP leader and ex-Sarpanch Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh) belonged to, targeting somebody, needs to be investigated. Whether he was kill

Not easy to give direct challenge to PM: Congress leader Salman Khurshid on AAP's protest Reacting to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal holding a protest at the BJP headquarters over the arrest of Bibhav Kumar in the Swati Maliwal alleged assault case on Sunday, Congress leader Salman Khurshid said it is not easy to give a direct challenge to the Prime Minister. It is not easy to give a direct challenge to a Prime Minister and he (Arvind Kejriwal) is doing that. The thoughts and emotions that

Phase five LS polls: Rae Bareli, Amethi among 14 UP seats going to polls on Monday Voting for the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, which will decide the fate of four Union ministers, including Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani, and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, will be held on Monday. Voting will also take place for the assembly bypoll to Lucknow East assembly constituency. The seats going to polls in the fifth phase are Mohanlalganj (SC), Rae Bareli, Amethi, Jalaun (SC), Jh

West Bengal: Sandeshkhali TMC worker detained for 'molesting' minor girl A TMC worker has been detained for allegedly molesting a minor girl in West Bengals Sandeshkhali area, police said. According to the complaint lodged by the girls mother, the accused ''somehow'' entered their house on Friday night and molested the minor. The riverine Sandeshkhali area situated on the borders of the Sundarbans, about 100 km from Kolkata had been on the boil in February with protests over allegations of sex

Back-to-back terrorist attacks in Kashmir: Ex-sarpanch killed in Shopian, tourist couple injured in Anantnag Terrorists struck at two places in Kashmir on Saturday night, killing a former sarpanch in Shopian and injuring a tourist couple from Rajasthan in Anantnag, two days ahead of Lok Sabha elections in Baramulla. The first attack took place on an open tourist camp near Pahalgam and the second on the former sarpanch at Hirpora in south Kashmir, officials said ''Terrorists fired upon and injure

Member of Israel's War Cabinet says he'll quit the government June 8 unless there's a new war plan Benny Gantz, a member of Israel's three-man War Cabinet, has threatened to resign from the government if it doesn't adopt a new plan for the war in Gaza, a move that would leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more reliant on his far-right allies. His announcement on Saturday escalates a divide within Israel's leadership more than seven months into a war in which it has yet to accomplish its stat

WRAPUP 7-Fierce fighting in northern Gaza as aid starts to roll off US-built pier Israeli forces battled Hamas fighters in the narrow alleyways of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Friday in some of the fiercest engagements since they returned to the area a week ago, while in the south militants attacked tanks massing around Rafah. Residents said Israeli armour had thrust as far as the market at the heart of Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, and that bulldozers were demolish

WRAPUP 6-Fierce fighting in northern Gaza as aid starts to roll off US-built pier Israeli forces battled Hamas fighters in the narrow alleyways of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Friday in some of the fiercest engagements since they returned to the area a week ago, while in the south militants attacked tanks massing around Rafah. Residents said Israeli armour had thrust as far as the market at the heart of Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, and that bulldozers were demolish