The Delhi high court on Friday sought response from the TV Today group and 13 others on a civil defamation suit filed by Law Minister Salman Khurshid's wife Louise Khurshid against the media house for airing a programme alleging financial irregularities in a trust run by the couple.
An MP-MLA court has issued an arrest warrant against Louise Khurshid, wife of former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid in a case involving alleged misuse of government funds.
The hurly burly of politics may have made Louise tougher than she ever imagined she could be but a core of sensitivity remains, says Aditi Phadnis
Notwithstanding Priyanka Gandhi Vadra crisscrossing Uttar Pradesh and a buzz built around the "Ladki hoon, Lad sakti hoon" campaign, the Congress was leading in only one seat out of 403 in the state, with many of its senior leaders trailing in their respective constituencies, according to trends available at 1.20 pm.
Voting for 117 assembly seats in Punjab and 59 assembly constituencies spread across 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh were held on Sunday.
India Against Corruption, led by activist Arvind Kejriwal, has posed five questions for Salman Khurshid over alleged fraud by a trust run by the Union law minister and his wife Louise. Khurshid is yet to answer any of them.
The rebuttal of charges of forged signatures and absent beneficiaries by Zakir Hussain Memorial trust climaxed, literally, on Sunday, when during a media interaction Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid and the director of the trust, his wife Louise Khurshid, reproduced Rangee Mistri, a beneficiary, before mediapersons. Priyanka reports from New Delhi.
Supporting his senior colleague, Minister of State in Prime Minister's Offic V Narayanasamy on Wednesday said no action can be taken against Law Minister Salman Khurshid on the basis of allegations of misuse of funds by an NGO headed by him. Noting that the Uttar Pradesh government is conducting an inquiry into allegations against the Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust run by Khurshid and his wife, Narayanasamy said action will be taken on the basis of its report.
"It's not Kejriwal or any political opponent, I need to worry about...Third rate people in India are doing third rate things... All this is being done as they want to launch their own party and they want to take over the country... We will fight tooth and nail, won't give into these blackmailers," Khurshid told a television channel from London
Union Law Minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid has been embroiled in a controversy over his comments on the minority quota. In the midst of hectic campaigning for his wife Louise Khurshid, who is contesting from the Farrukhabad assembly seat, he tells Kavita Chowdhury why he will continue to talk about the minority quota and the reality of Indian politics.
Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, whose wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead on Friday night, was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after he suffered a "cardiac condition" in the wee hours on Saturday.
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