Indian National Lok Dal chief Om Prakash Chautala appeared in a Delhi court on Friday in connection with a disproportionate asset case.
Expressing solidarity with jailed All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalithaa, a former actor, members of the Tamil cinema industry on Tuesday embarked on a day-long 'silent fast" in Chennai on Tuesday.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking an order that he be allowed to argue before the Karnataka high court in the hearing of an appeal filed by former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa against her conviction in the disproportionate assets case.
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday questioned Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar in the National Herald money laundering case, officials said.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday told the Delhi high court that withdrawal of Rs 2000 notes is not demonetisation but a statutory exercise, and the decision to enable their exchange was taken for operational convenience.
The poster also shows Chief Minister Jayalalithaa holding an infant aloft in the floods -- inspired from the epic opening scene of Rajamouli's blockbuster film Baahubali.
If Kejriwal is arrested, it will take very little for Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena to summon a meeting of the assembly, direct it to elect a new leader of the House, and, if it doesn't, dissolve it and impose President's Rule, predicts Aditi Phadnis.
Twenty-one serving and retired Indian Police Service officers have been booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the last three years in 16 different cases ranging from disproportionate assets to destruction of evidence, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Jailed All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalithaa will have to stay in prison for at least 6 more days as the vacation bench of the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday posted for October 7 hearing on her pleas for suspension of the sentence and immediate bail in the disproportionate assets case.
Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar on Monday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in Delhi for a fresh round of questioning in the National Herald money laundering case.
Violence broke out in several parts of Tamil Nadu today after Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was convicted in a graft case with angry All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supporters indulging in stone pelting and arson and forcing closure of shops.
The Enforcement Directorate on Monday arrested Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in connection with a money laundering case, officials said.
Jayalalithaa was disqualified following her conviction in the Rs 66.66 crore disproportionate assets case by a trial court in Bengaluru on September 27
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader O Panneerselvam on Friday stepped down from his post as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, even as party supremo J Jayalalithaa was re-elected as the legislature party leader at a meeting held in Chennai.
The apex court's decision, which was handed down in eight minutes, has dashed any hopes for the Jayalalithaa aide to become CM.
Here is the glimpse of the political turn of events in the state
Seven Congress legislators and three Aam Aadmi Party MLAs who recently switched over to the ruling party also said Navjot Singh Sidhu was a celebrity and was no doubt an asset to the party but condemning and criticising his own party and government in public has only created a "rift in the cadres and weakened it".
Sasikala sharing her cell with co-accused and sister-in-law, J Elavarasi and another, slept on the floor and had tamarind rice in the morning.
Various opposition leaders in Tamil Nadu welcomed Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's conviction by a Bangalore special court in the disproportionate assets case and urged police to maintain law and order.
Sasikala, admitted to the Bowring Hospital on Wednesday, is presently in the dedicated COVID-19 Centre of the Victoria Hospital in the city and her condition was stable, hospital sources added.
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general council meeting on Monday revived the general secretary post, and picked Edappadi K Palaniswami as the interim GS.
The jailed All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader had applied for 15-day parole on Monday, seeking temporary release to attend to her ailing husband, M Natarajan, 74, who is in the liver intensive care unit of a corporate hospital.
Acting on a tip-off, the Lokayukta police conducted the raid at the house of Ujjain Development Authority executive engineer, Hukum Singh Patidar and recovered assets worth about Rs 10 crore including Rs 1.5 lakh cash, Lokayukta's Deputy Superintendent of Police O P Sangoriya said.
The average assets of an MP are now 345.8 times that of an annual income of a tax-filing individual, reports Sachin P Mampatta.
Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's close aide V K Sasikala, serving a four-year jail term on graft charges, has sought remission and early release from prison, official sources said on Wednesday.
Karnataka High Court has set aside the conviction of Jayalalithaa.
The Vaiko-led Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Monday announced boycotting the June 27 by-poll to Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency in Chennai, against AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa.
The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday approved setting up of three special Central Bureau of Investigation courts in the state to clear long pending cases.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Karnataka government's decision to remove the special public prosecutor in a disproportionate assets case against her.
The IO is also understood to have confronted him with some documents the agency had seized and recovered in this case of alleged disproportionate assets.
The Insurance Bill that the Bharatiya Janata Party government had announced would be passed in the winter session of Parliament has run into rough weather.
The Karnataka high court will hear jailed former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa's application on Wednesday seeking immediate bail and suspension of conviction and jail sentence in the disproportionate assets case.
The BJP and the AIADMK are unable to sort out ideological differences, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
After a gap of 10 years, the DMK snatched the reins of power from arch rival AIADMK, with its president M K Stalin leading the party to a stellar performance and in the process, helming the state as chief minister for the first time.
The court also dismissed petitions of his wife Pratibha Singh, son Vikramaditya Singh and another person.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Karnataka government on a plea of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa against the removal of special public prosecutor in a disproportionate assets case against her and said no fresh appointment of public prosecutor be made in the case.
Vowing to retain power for the second time in a row, they said such 'anti-people' forces must be taught a lesson again by vanquishing them through hardwork, unity and allegiance to the party.
With the arrest of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief J Jayalalithaa coming as a shock to her supporters, the party today claimed that 154 sympathisers have died unable to bear the anguish.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday said the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam would decide on accommodating V K Sasikala, confidante of late chief minister of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa, in the ruling party-led alliance for the April 6 assembly polls.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday demanded the cancellation of the nomination of Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Suvendu Adhikari, who is pitted against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Nandigram, as his name also 'seems to appear' in the electoral roll of Haldia constituency.
