Dikshit was elected at a meeting of 42 party legislators in New Delhi on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting was attended among others by All India Congress Committee General Secretary Mohsina Kidwai, Minister of State for Finance P K Bansal and Delhi Pradesh Congres Committee chief Jai Prakash Aggarwal.
Dikshit, 81, passed away on Saturday afternoon at the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in New Delhi due to cardiac arrest.
The crisis in the Delhi unit of the Congress was solved after party president Sonia Gandhi met CM Sheila Dixit and DPCC chief Rambabu Sharma.
The PM said she made a noteworthy contribution to Delhi's development.
Following the threat held out by Praveen Togadia, international general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad that he would lead massive demonstrations if the Delhi government decided to serve beef to the foreign nationals taking part in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, Sheila Dixit's government has bowed to Togadia.
Asked by reporters what happens if Dikshit fails to turn up before the ACB despite the notice, Meena said, "We can't predict anything in this regard. We are taking action as per law."
Dikshit would be assisted by three working presidents -- Devender Yadav, Haroon Yusuf and Rajesh Lilotia.
'For politicians, winning the next election has become more important than economic stability of the country and broader national interest.'
Two former MLAs Neeraj Basoya and Nasseb Singh resigned from the primary membership of the party putting the party's Lok Sabha preparations in doubt.
The bonhomie between Mamata Banerjee and India's 13th President... Why is Sharad Pawar so angry?... Will Sheila Dixit lose her job?... The asli face of Congress sycophancy... All this and more in this week's Dilli Gupshup.
Dimple Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, was on Saturday declared elected unopposed from Kannauj Lok Sabha seat after two candidates in the fray against her withdrew their nominations for the by-poll.
The more things change, the more they remain the same! That certainly appears to be the dictum by which the Congress party and its leadership lives and works.
The Congress president during her address had said that ministers and people in authority didn't take grassroots Congress workers seriously. As if to prove her point, a horde of Congressmen -- 75 according to a lady manning the media enclosure -- followed Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit inside the press enclosure "to check the arrangement for the media."
Three new non-stop Duronto trains will be launched on Wednesday, the last day of the current financial year. They are the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar, New Delhi-Howrah, and Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Jammu Tawi Duronto expresses.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and a host of party leaders today paid homage to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YSR Reddy, who died in a chopper crash.
The jury members included Ashish Dhawan, senior managing director, ChrysCapital, Keki Dadiseth, managing director, Omnicom, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, chairman and managing director, Biocon, Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman and managing director, Aditya Birla Group and S Ramadorai, chief executive, TCS.
Activists have been meeting all important people concerned with the construction to explain them the environment risks involved in the project but they have been shocked to see the involvement of some big names of New Delhi behind the project.
So when Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit was felicitating the bravery award winning children, Rahul was forced to stay indoors. Three plain-clothed policemen were hand-picked by the special branch to ensure that the media never had a glimpse of the teenager.
From this point it really doesn't matter whether Sheila Dixit or Suresh Kalmadi retain their jobs or M S Gill and Jaipal Reddy must also bear equal responsibility. The damage has been done, says M K Bhadrakumar.
The capital regions of India and Russia agreed on Thursday to cooperate in infrastructural development and advanced medical services and enhance the youth exchanges between them.
Otherwise detractors, Congress general secretary Ahmad Patel and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit appeared to team up to keep Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief Salman Khurshid out of Delhi.
Arun Jaitley, New Delhi's media's most favourite analyst on days of election results, was less effusive than usual on Monday.
The BJP has not only lost but its entire stance on terrorism stands exposed. It will need many 'chintan baithaks' for the party leaders to find out why the voters have not bought their serious and quite justifiable allegation of the Congress being 'soft on terror'.
Amateur filmmaker Anubhav Srivastava on how his unique film project changed his life.
His deputy Manish Sisodia termed the judgement 'historic' and recalled the landmark mandate that the people of Delhi had given to the Aam Aadmi Paarty in the assembly elections in February 2015 when the party won 67 of 70 seats.
Addressing the villagers, Rahul said while Gandhiji's march was to unite the nation against the British rule, the current yatra was to unite the nation against the internal enemies.
Rahul Gandhi, along with Delhi CM Sheila Dixit and Union minister Kapil Sibal joined the yatra at Kankapura in Anand district at the break of dawn.
People were asked to rate their chief minister's work as excellent, good, bad or average. The ratings were prepared by accumulating `excellent' and `good' rating points and then subtracting `bad' points from it.
Gandhi spent an hour in the hospital enquiring about Kanshi Ram's health.
The Delhi battlefield may not be a cakewalk for the Rhodes Scholar.
'I am confident that it will be a good day for the BJP'
Narayanasamy had served as the minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office in the second United Progressive Alliance government, after being minister of state, Parliamentary Affairs, in the first UPA government.
Congress warned the AAP that 'politics of revenge' always backfires.
The Deputy CM arrived around 11 am at the ACB office on Friday and his questioning continued for over two hours, said a senior ACB officer.
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The poster references 2001 Hindi political thriller Nayak, a remake of Tamil film Mudhalvan (1999) in which Kapoor plays a reporter who becomes chief minister of Maharashtra for a day and strives to eliminate corruption.
It was a battle for broom-upmanship as both Bharatiya Janata Party and Aam Aadmi Party leaders took to cleaning the streets of Delhi on Saturday while blaming each other for the garbage crisis in the city.
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