Politics

His lawyer Gyanendra Mishra said Singh appeared before Metropolitan Magistrate Harun Pratap and claimed he was falsely implicated in the case due to "political rivalry".

The court declined to give an earlier date, saying the matter will take time and "it is not going to happen overnight".

The Finance Department was given to Suresh Kumar Khanna and Ashotosh Tondon got the charge of the Urban Development Ministry.

The enmity between the two leaders dates back to 2008, when Thakur was arrested by the ATS for her alleged role in Malegaon blast, and Chidamabram served as the union minister.

The name of Jyotiraditya Scindia who suffered a shocking defeat in the Guna Lok Sabha seat had been ruled out for a while. However, sources said he is back in the race and has emerged as a frontrunner.

In her first reaction after Chidambaram's arrest by CBI in INX media case on Wednesday evening, Banerjee quoted Rabindranath Tagore and said the 'message of justice is crying silently in isolation'.

The high court also stayed the reverse tendering process, initiated by the state government, for the Polavaram hydroelectric project and the dam head works.

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said Mohan Bhagwat’s remark was uncalled for and urged him to shun his anti-quota ideology, while Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad said only the RSS president could not see the discrimination.

Without naming the Congress for the criticism on the arrest of former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, the Union Minister said it was 'unnecessarily being made a big issue'.

Jamyang Tsering Namgyal also claimed that the Congress governments ruined Kashmir by following the policy of 'appeasement' in hostile situations and Ladakh became a 'collateral damage'.

Remembering late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bharti said Atalji had taught them that they should not be power greedy and that the Congressmen would topple its own government.

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel earlier this month had disqualified Mishra under the anti-defection law after he campaigned for the BJP during Lok Sabha elections in May.

Demanding the government celebrate liberation day, Dattatreya also lashed out against the state government for not being able to release waters to crops under the Kaleshwaram project.

Sengar, who has been charged with raping a teenage girl and murdering her father, was featured prominently in a full page advertisement in a leading Hindi newspaper on Independence Day.

Yediyurappa during the meeting with the prime minister and central ministers will seek central aid for the flood ravaged state, where relief and rehabilitation work is under progress.

The proposed river linking project will enable Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to make ample use of about 3000 thousand million cubic (tmc) waters.