The Enforcement Directorate has moved the court for the issuance of NBW against AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan. An application has been moved to the Rouse Avenue court by the ED. The Counsel for ED sought to file some documents. The court has listed the matter for hearing on April 18.
Tesla chief Elon Musk will visit India this month to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is expected to make an announcement related to his plans to invest and open a new factory in the country, two sources with direct knowledge said, reports Reuters. The billionaire executive will meet Modi in the week of April 22 in New Delhi, and will separately make an announcement about his India plans, said the two sources, who declined to be named as the trip details are confidential. Modi's office and Tesla did not respond to a request for comment. Musk's final India trip agenda could still change. Reuters has previously reported that Tesla officials are expected to visit India this month to look at sites for a manufacturing plant that would require an investment of about $2 billion.
Amid the drama surrounding Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's legal troubles, Delhi's social welfare minister Raaj Kumar Anand tendered his resignation today. Anand was elected as an MLA in 2020 from Patel Nagar Assembly in Delhi.
In a setback for the Trinamool Congress-led government in West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered a CBI probe into allegations of rape and land grab in Sandeshkhali.
Dismissing the second affidavit of apology submitted by Patanjali, the Supreme Court on Wednesday warned Patanjali MD Acharya Balkrishna and co-founder Ramdev to be ready to face action in the contempt case.
"We don’t accept it [apology], we decline to accept this. We consider it a wilful, deliberate disobedience of the undertaking," the top court said, adding that "the message has to go to society at large not to violate the court's order."
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's counsel approached the Supreme Court today and sought an urgent hearing before Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, a day after the Delhi High Court dismissed his petition challenging his arrest in the liquor policy case.
The partnership between India and the United States has reached a new height with engagement on technology and other fields, the US National Security Advisor has stated. At a White House news conference, NSA Jake Sullivan said: "The partnership between the US and India, a country in BRICs, has gone to new heights with an engagement across technology and security and so many other dimensions." The NSA was responding to questions on the decline in American leadership in the world, in light of Iran, Egypt, UAE, and Ethiopia joining BRICS, and Saudi Arabia mulling over becoming part of it.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has instructed the Superintendent of Police in its ranks to report to its Delhi headquarters, days after the Trinamool Congress claimed that a BJP leader carrying cash in an envelope visited the latter’s home near Kolkata, The Indian Express reported today. The agency has also sent a DIG-rank officer from Patna to West Bengal to supervise cases. The TMC had alleged on Monday that the BJP was abusing the powers of the NIA to target its political opponents.
The Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) on Tuesday stated that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will move the Supreme Court soon against his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate and maintained the excise policy case was the "biggest political conspiracy of the country" to finish the party. AAP leader and Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said they are hopeful the Supreme Court will provide relief to CM Kejriwal in the same way it granted bail to AAP Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh recently. "We respect the institution of the high court but we respectfully submit that we do not agree with its order and will move the Supreme Court against it," Bharadwaj told a press conference.