Industrialist and former MP Naveen Jindal quit the Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday, saying he wants to contribute to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's agenda of 'Viksit Bharat'.
Results for assembly polls in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir were declared on Tuesday, with the Bharatiya Janata Party scoring a hat-trick in Haryana while the National Conference-Congress alliance emerged victorious in J-K. Here's how some big names fared.
The voter turnout recorded in the 2019 assembly polls was around 68 per cent.
Instead of harvesting the wrath against the BJP and using it to their advantage by opting for a collective form of leadership, the Congress decided once again to bestow their trust in the Hooda family who were given a free hand in the distribution of tickets. This turned out to be the biggest blunder and this faulty selection was the single over riding factor in the Congress defeat, explains Rashme Sehgal.
A Delhi court on Monday reserved for January 16 its order on a plea by Zee News Ltd for direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to lodge an FIR against Congress MP Naveen Jindal for allegedly trying to "influence" the hearing before News Broadcasting Standards Authority in connection with the alleged extortion bid case.
Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary on Thursday told a Delhi court that Congress MP Naveen Jindal and 16 other officials of his firm against whom he had filed a criminal defamation complaint, had levelled "false allegations" against him to tarnish his image.
In a significant development, a Delhi court on Thursday took cognisance of Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary's criminal defamation complaint against Congress MP Naveen Jindal and 16 officials of his firm Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL).
Central Bureau Investigation has asked Congress MP Naveen Jindal, who is currently abroad with his family, to join its probe in the allocation of a coal block to his company Jindal Steel and Power Limited.
Zee Group Chairman Subhash Chandra on Saturday appeared before the police for questioning in connection with the alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid by two Zee editors from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's company for not airing news damaging to it.
The bail pleas of two Zee News channel editors, arrested for allegedly trying to extort Rs 100 crore from a Congress MP Naveen Jindal's group firm for not telecasting reports linking it to coal block allocation scam, were dismissed on Monday by a Delhi court.
A Delhi court will give on Saturday its order on two Zee editors' plea to stop police from taking their voice samples by making them read from the transcripts of an audio clip of a sting done by the officials of Congress MP Naveen Jindal's firm in the alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid case.
Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary on Thursday filed a defamation complaint against Congress MP Naveen Jindal for averments made against him in the FIR of alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid case and in a press statement in New Delhi.
A Delhi court on Saturday reserved its order for Monday on bail pleas of two Zee group editors, arrested for their alleged roles in the case of Rs 100 crore extortion bid from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's firm.
A Delhi court on Friday extended till December 20 the interim protection from arrest granted to Zee Group Chairman Subhash Chandra and his son in the case of alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's firm by two editors of the news channel.
A court in New Delhi told the police to give ten working days time to Zee Group Chairman Subhash Chandra and his son if it wants to arrest them in the case of alleged Rs 100 crore-extortion bid from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's firm by two editors of the news channel.
After spending 20 days in jail, two Zee group editors were granted bail on Monday by a Delhi court in the case of alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's firm.
The hearing on bail pleas of Zee group editors, accused of attempting to extort Rs 100 crore from a firm of Congress MP Naveen Jindal, was deferred on Saturday by a Delhi court to December 3 due to absence of the prosecutor and the investigating officer.
Two senior journalists of Zee news channel were arrested in New Delhi on Tuesday on charges of trying to extort Rs 100 crore from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's group for not doing news reports on coal scam linking his firm.
Sanghi scored a total of 119/125 points.
The National Democratic Alliance government will completely review the security provided to more than 150 VIPs by the previous United Progressive Alliance regime following completion of the upcoming budget session of Parliament.
Former Coal Secretary H C Gupta, who resigned as member of Competition Commission of India, was on Thursday questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with coal blocks allocation from 2006 to 2009 during his tenure.
As many as 14 Indian families have made it to the inaugural list of Forbes' 50 richest families in Asia.
It is curtains down for Maharashtra and Haryana assembly polls. Here's a look at political biggies, who made it and who didn't.
Jindal's house was raided by the CBI on Tuesday.
CEOs fear any change in status of the mines will mean disruption in production, loss of investment and increased production cost for user industries.
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to file remaining five of the six charge sheets by March 28 in the coal block allocation scam, declining to grant more time sought by the agency for this purpose.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday accused the government of not cooperating with the Central Bureau of Investigation in the coal scam by dilly-dallying on sharing relevant files with the probe agency and demanded that the computers in the Prime Minister's Office, which store such information, should be seized for "data mining".
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