A Delhi court on Wednesday awarded a four-year jail term to ex-Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda, his son Devender Darda, and businessman Manoj Kumar Jayaswal in a case related to irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Chhattisgarh.
Under pressure to quit his post after the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a first information report against him in the coal block allotment scam, Maharashtra minister Rajendra Darda on Wednesday said he no longer has any relation with the company booked by the investigative agency.
Congress MP from Maharashtra Vijay Darda on Sunday praised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's style of functioning and called him a "tiger".
"The party high command has advised Rajendra Darda to quit," a senior party leader said hours after the minister clarified in Nashik that he no longer has any relation with the company booked by the investigative agency.
Anish Giri blundered a piece against Magnus Carlsen, losing in just 22 moves.
'We are looking at the next target which is to be a $1 billion ARR firm in the next 4-5 years.'
If any corruption has taken place in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, which was ruled by the undivided Shiv Sena for more than two decades, then probe it, but also inquire into the work done by states during the pandemic, he said.
The Sangh chief said, "Even Veer Savarkar had said if the Hindu community gets united and organised, it will speak about the Bhagwad Gita and not about finishing or harming anyone."
Parliament has cleared the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2023, recently. The objective of the Act is to invite investments from the private sector, including foreign companies, for mining minerals such as lithium and other critical minerals. Other than lithium, some of these minerals were classified as atomic minerals, including beryl and beryllium, niobium, titanium, tantalum and zirconium.
A special court on Thursday refused to accept a closure report by the Central Bureau of Investigation and directed it to further investigate an alleged scam in coal blocks allocation, involving Congress Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda, saying he had misrepresented facts in letters written to then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The court posted the matter for September 26 after the CBI informed that it was likely to file a supplementary final report in the case by September 22.
Pawar, an ally of the Congress, however, took exception to Barack Obama's unflattering comments on the Congress leader.
A businessman-journalist and Rajya Sabha member from the ruling Congress party, Vijay Darda has recently shot into national limelight, but, for all the wrong reasons -- he has become embroiled in the coal-gate scam that has currently swept the nation.
Acting in the coal block allocation scam, the Central Bureau of India on Tuesday filed cases against five companies for alleged criminal conspiracy and misrepresentation of facts, naming Congress MP Vijay Darda and his brother Rajendra Darda, a Maharashtra Minister, in one of the FIRs.
A 36-year-old conman, who allegedly duped Congress Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Vijay Darda of Rs 34 lakh by posing as former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat, has been arrested, police said on Friday. The accused, Digambar alias Balasaheb Khaire Patil, was arrested from Solapur.
Congress Member of Parliament Vijay Darda is not yet off the hook for his remarks purportedly in praise of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The government would not withdraw fringe benefit tax, which was introduced in the 2005-06 Budget, but the process would be made less painful, Central Board of Direct Taxes chairman M S Darda said on Friday.
'The margin of victory or loss would make both camps rethink their strategies for the 2024 assembly election in Maharashtra.'
Minister of State for Home Rajendra Darda said nearly 30 compact discs were seized and contained speeches allegedly by Jaish-e-Mohammed and clippings of communal conflagrations in Gujarat.
The court has now fixed the matter for scrutiny of documents on September 29.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, around 20 injured students under the Jamia Coordination Committee narrated what they claimed were police brutalities. The students claimed over 50 of them received injuries on their chest, stomach and their private parts during the scuffle.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has recorded statements of the then ministers of state in the coal ministry Santosh Bagrodia and Dasari Narayan Rao in connection with the coal block allocation scam.
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Measures for providing protection to whistleblowers from civil or criminal liability were among the seven private members' bills introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Friday.
Recent events underscore the belief that wealth and politics go together. You have wealth and get into politics. Or, you are in politics, so naturally accumulate wealth, writes Mahesh Vijapurkar.
Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday downplayed the registration of a CBI case against Maharashtra minister Rajendra Darda in coal block allocation case but said he himself would have resigned if any FIR was filed against him.
CBI has registered 18 FIRs so far in the coal scam.
Industrialist Mukesh Ambani would release 'Wildscapes', a coffee table book on environment and wildlife protection, here on July 29.
her visit coincides with the BJP's three-day silver jubilee convention.
Good days never come. The slogan of achhe din is a bone stuck in the throat for the National Democratic Alliance government, Gadkari said.
Admitting that Fringe Benefit Tax is 'fast becoming a trauma', the government on Friday said it was confident of meeting the budget target of 34 per cent growth for direct taxes at Rs 1,75,000 crore
Several policemen in Maharashtra have died owing to the long working hours and difficult working conditions.
The Indian Merchants' Chambers, in coordination with a US-based company Polycom Technology, has announced its new initiative using technology to support the government, especially to modernise crime detection.\n\n\n\n
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Ambika Soni and Oscar Fernandes have also been nominated to contest the June 28 biennial elections.
The BJP has nominated Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal as its candidate from Maharashtra for Rajya Sabha election.
For lakhs of 10th class students in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh is not a part of the country, as the north-eastern state is reportedly "missing" from the map in their geography textbooks.
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