Surinder Kamboj was arrested on Friday along with three others for allegedly attempting to extort Rs 10 lakh from a property dealer by promising to save him in an alleged false rape complaint, police said.
The bill would stretch the mandatory working hours to 12 hours from the present 8 hours of duty. Along with the opposition parties, DMK's ally Congress, Communist Party of India, Marxist Communist Party, Madhyamik Party, Visika and others condemned the bill and walked out of the assembly.
The special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Kolkata on Friday extended the CBI custody of Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha till April 25 in the West Bengal teachers' recruitment scam case.
Bihar police registered a case against Sahibganj BJP MLA Raju Sing after a complaint from Muzaffarpur's Paroo block corcle officer and another government employee in which they alleged that the MLA assaulted them, Muzaffarpur SSP Rakesh Kumar said on Friday.
Pankaj Singh, MLA of UP Assembly is contesting the election of President while Maninder Pal is contesting for Secretary-General for his second consecutive term. Sudeesh Kumar of Kerala is contesting for Treasurer. The election will be unopposed as one candidate is contesting for each post.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Congress released its list of 40-star campaigners for the Karnataka Assembly elections, where a notable absentee was Sachin Pilot.
In a statement issued to the press, MLA Kuldeep Rathore said, "In Shimla district, due to rain and hailstorm for the last several days, crops have suffered heavy damage at many places. In Jadoon Panchayat of Narkanda, which falls under the Theog assembly constituency, apple plants have suffe
Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Shirsat on Thursday filed a case against Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut for allegedly spreading "fake news" regarding the number of deaths from heat stroke in Kharghar.
"I tender my resignation from the post of chairman of Manipur Development Society (MDS) due to some personal grounds," Brojen stated in his resignation letter submitted to Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh.
Day after veteran Trinamool Congress leader and one of the party's founding members, Mukul Roy, claimed he was no longer with the ruling party in West Bengal and was willing to take up any task assigned by the BJP, saffron party leader Agnimitra Paul took a swipe at him claiming that he was
A special court in Ahmedabad on Thursday acquitted all the accused, including BJP MLA Maya Kodnani, in the 2002 post-Godhra riots, Naroda Gam case, which killed 11 people from the minority community.
Highly upset by the exit of two top Lingayat leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa called a meeting of several MLAs belonging to the community to deliberate on the action plan as the state Assembly elections are less than a month from now, so