Punjab Police have arrested two men in Bathinda and seized two hand grenades, averting a major terror threat. The grenades are believed to be linked to cross-border elements aiming to disrupt peace in the state.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann appeared before the Akal Takht Secretariat after being summoned for alleged remarks on Sikh traditions. He submitted his clarification and expressed respect for the Akal Takht's authority.
The Supreme Court's opinion on the presidential reference can impact on any number of cases if and when governors, if not the President, take a literary view of the Supreme Court's 'ppinion' on their 'discretionary powers' without reference to the rider on 'reasonable time', points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Call it political opportunism or sagacity, his moves, in effect, have not allowed the Bharatiya Janata Party to appoint its own chief minister to date, despite enjoying a near hegemonic status nationally and the best performance in recently held assembly polls where the saffron party bagged 89 seats, followed by the Janata Dal-United with 85.
A 25-year-old Indian man who went to Russia on a student visa has allegedly been 'deceitfully' recruited into the Russian Army and pushed into the Russia-Ukraine conflict, his family claims. They are seeking the Indian government's help for his safe return.
The senior Congress leader was in a coma since October last year, when he was admitted to AIIMS after he suffered a brain haemorrhage.
The Congress has revoked Buta Singh's expulsion and assigned him to hold back-channel talks with Jayalalithaa and Mayawati.
Ahead of their planned protest in Chandigarh on March 5, several Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders were detained in early morning raids at their residences on Tuesday and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann denounced the agitating farmer unions, saying they have turned Punjab into a 'state of dharnas' and caused huge losses to it.
Asked whether the apex court's verdict was a setback to the Congress, Patil said "the judgement is before us....it depends from which angle you look at it."
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was an "asset" for the Congress, former Minister Buta Singh said.
Dr Singh said that Buta should keep in mind the gravity of his office.
After spending nearly 50 years in a colonial bungalow at 24, Akbar Road, the Congress moved into a new office on January 15. Rasheed Kidwai, who knows the history of the Congress better than the Congress, looks back at the people who breathed life into this address.
Buta Singh''s son Sarabjot Singh was summoned to Central Bureau of Investigation headquarters on Monday for further questioning in connection with a multi crore corruption case.
Buta Singh thinks he need not resign, what do you think?\n\n
Bihar Governor Buta Singh on Thursday came under attack for transferring Siwan District Magistrate C K Anil and his Gopalganj counterpart K K Pathak.
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad's claim that Bihar Governor Buta Singh was his nominee rocked Parliament on Tuesday.
National Democratic Alliance alleged that the governor had resorted to the dictatorial step to prevent alliance Nitish Kumar from forming a government.
Claiming that Parliament, by approving extension of President's rule in Bihar, had also approved the Assembly dissolution, Governor Buta Singh on Friday sought a public apology from the NDA for levelling false charges against him.
Sources said the governor, who is under pressure to resign following the order, will meet members of the media at 1600 IST.
The Centre is yet to appoint advisers to the Bihar governor.
A recommendatory letter purported to have been written by Bihar Governor Buta Singh to Railway Minister Lalu Prasad seeking favour for 2 senior railway officers has sparked off a controversy.
The governor is to meet with the PM and Sonia Gandhi.
Immediately after his arrival, he drove to his house in a private car driven by his son.\n\n
Union Home minister P Chidambaran on Saturday denied having received any report from the Central Bureau of Investigation on the latest developments in former home minister Buta Singh's son Sarabjot Singh's alleged bribery case.
How did a leader, once as important as Buta Singh, suffer such a precipitous fall from grace? After being Home Minister and governor, Singh is looking at a Bihar government probe at some of the actions he had taken as the governor of Bihar and his family is caught up in a clutch of court cases -- most of a criminal nature.
The Delhi Police on Tuesday said it has no records of licenses of three firearms recovered from the residence of National Commission for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Chairman Buta Singh's son Sarobjit, who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with a corruption case.
Bihar Governor Buta Singh defended his move to disslove the House saying he had specific reports of largescale horsetrading of MLAs.
NDA gives notice for adjournment motion over Buta letter
While Sarabjot and Begi have been booked for corruption and hatching the criminal conspiracy, the two others face charges under money laundering act for being allegedly involved in Hawala racket, they said.
Governor Buta Singh has come under fire for making three appointments on the day that poll schedules were announced in Bihar and the model code of conduct came into effect.
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