Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Russian President Vladimir Putin during the PM's first bilateral visit to Russia.

In what can be called a back-door fare hike, the railways has increased Tatkal charges from December 25. 

India has delivered three Mi 25 attack helicopters to Afghanistan, in what is seen as a shift in its strategy towards the strife-torn country.  

Pakistan recalled a woman diplomat posted in Dhaka amid an uproar over her suspected links to Islamist terrorists, nearly a year after Bangladesh expelled another Pakistani national on identical charges. The move came two days after Bangladesh asked Pakistan to recall the diplomat, Fareena Arshad. "She has been recalled by Pakistan," a foreign ministry official said.

Women drivers and CNG-certified vehicles are likely to be given exemption from Delhi government's ambitious odd-even scheme coming into force from January 1 in the national capital. 

Amid frequent face offs between the government and opposition, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said political discourse in the country has become "more vulgar". 

It was the most polluted day of the year in Delhi today with the authorities recording the highest levels of suspended particulate matters PM 2.5 and PM 10, taking the air quality into the 'severe' category across the city. 

Even as the Aam Aadmi Party battle with the Centre over the raids continue, the Central Bureau of Investigation has revealed that they have found 5 audio clips in which Principal Secretary to Delhi CM Rajendra Kumar has allegedly given instructions to favour private firms. 

Pakistani-American terrorist Muzammil Butt alias Abu Hurera's plot to assassinate then Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah was foiled in the nick of time. Mumbai attacks conspirator David Coleman Headley's handler Muzammil had made an elaborate plot to assassinate Omar with a help of local university lecturer, soon after the 26/11 carnage. 

Minutes after being suspended by the BJP for 'anti-party activities, Kirti Azad, breaking his silence, said, "I did not say anything against anyone personally. They must explain what anti-party activities have I been involved in."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has landed in Moscow, Russia for his two-day visit to Russia to attend the 16th Annual Summit. The PM is expected to dine with Russian President Vladimir Putin tonight. After their meeting, they are expected to sign key agreements on defence and nuclear energy

'Where is zero tolerance against corruption? PM Modi protecting the accused -- first Vyapam, then Lalit Modi, then PDS scam. Now DDCA scam #KirtiAzad,' tweeted Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi.

The Goa Police issued a lookout notice against noted pop singer Remo Fernandes after he failed to appear before investigating officers on Wednesday in connection with a case filed against him for allegedly threatening a minor girl.  

"We have issued a lookout notice against Remo. He was summoned twice but did not present himself before the investigating officer," police said.

The 62-year-old award-winning artist was summoned to the police station this evening after he abstained from appearing before them on Monday due to his Europe tour.

Police had issued him summons through the foreign embassy after cops came to know on Tuesday that Remo has surrendered his Indian citizenship and embraced Portuguese nationality.

Azad had held a press conference on Sunday despite being warned by Amit Shah against it. He then dared Jaitley, tweeting, ""Hello dear Jaitleyji, are you filing defamation case against me? Please do file."


Arun Jaitley maintained a studied silence on Azad, but the next day, on Monday, filed a Rs 10 crore defamation suit against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders.


Azad then tweeted, "Mera naam kyon hata diya @arunjaitley #Aap ne toh mere letters dikhae theey, mujhpar karo na case, registered post se maine bheje theey."


Jaitley has received support from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi who defended his second in command saying: "No one has any doubt about his honesty and integrity. The allegations against him are baseless."


At the press conference on Sunday, where Azad spoke about alleged irregularities in the DDCA, he repeatedly said there was no personal fight in his 'principled campaign' but played footage of a DDCA AGM of 2011-12, which purportedly showed him questioning Jaitley, who was in the chair.

Asked repeatedly as to why he was not taking the name of Jaitley and what his allegations against him were, Azad said there was no personal or political fight. It is a matter of principles and we have been fighting this battle for the last nine years, he said.

So, is Shatrughan Sinha up next for suspension?

The 'rebel' MP tweeted his support for Azad today saying, "Kirti Azad is hero. Have often quoted Newtons 3rd Law. Feel that untimely action cud boomerang. Sadly-Party with a Difference has become Party with Differences. I request friends not to take action against #KirtiAzad. As for FM, issue shud be fought politically not legally. As advised by our dashing dynamic PM, our FM cud follow Advanijis eg & come clean."

Kirti Azad's suspension has been expected for a while. The Darbhanga MP had been baiting the finance minister over the latter's role in the corruption at the Delhi and District Cricket Association involving tenders issued to fake firms. The Aam Aadmi Party had levelled grave charges against Jaitley as well following which the finance minister had filed a defaamation suit of Rs 10 crore against six people including Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

The other MP who had backed Azad was RK Singh. One down, two to go?

First reactions from senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh @digvijaya_28  Kirti Azad suspended by BJP. His crime? Raised issue of Corruption in DDCA with facts.

And finally, the BJP suspends Kirti Azad. BJP president Amit Shah suspended the BJP MP today. Azad was suspended for targeting finance minister Arun Jaitley over the DDCA issue. 


The former cricketer and BJP MP has tweeted several times against Jaitley and even brought up the DDCA issue in the Lok Sabha.

Azad has underlined that he was not targeting any individual and that he had nothing to do with the attacks on Jaitley by the AAP, which he said "was born the other day" and was only echoing what he had been saying for eight long years.

He alleged that the DDCA gave contracts to fake companies, paying them crores of rupees in cash and had fudged the audit of accounts. He played a video produced by WikiLeaks4India which claimed that some of the companies favoured by the DDCA had given fictitious addresses.

Dadri chargesheet says the announcement was made from a temple that Akhlaq was cooking beef.

Three months on, the Uttar Pradesh police have finally filed a chargesheet in the Dadri lynching case. Fifteen accused, including a juvenile, have been named with the victim Akhlaq Saifi's daughter as the key witness. The chargesheet makes no mention of whether the meat found at Akhlaq's house was beef.

In a breakthrough in the case, the police arrested four persons on Monday for their alleged involvement in the lynching on September 28. Arun, Ravin, Hariom Singh and a juvenile were among the five persons arrested on Monday.

The arrests were made on the deposition of Shaista, daughter of Mohammad Akhlaq, before the additional judicial magistrate on November 26. Shaista was present in the house during the attack after rumours that the family had stored beef in fridge.


File pic of the family of the victim Akhlaq Saifi.

Three months on, the Uttar Pradesh police have finally filed a chargesheet in the Dadri lynching case. Fifteen accused have been named with the victim Akhlaq Saifi's daughter as the key witness. The chargesheet makes no mention of whether the meat found at Akhlaq's house was beef.

In a breakthrough in the case, the police arrested four persons on Monday for their alleged involvement in the lynching on September 28. Arun, Ravin, Hariom Singh and a juvenile were among the five persons arrested on Monday.

The arrests were made on the deposition of Shaista, daughter of Mohammad Akhlaq, before the additional judicial magistrate on November 26. Shaista was present in the house during the attack after rumours that the family had stored beef in fridge.


File pic of the family of the victim Akhlaq Saifi.

Hockey India President Narinder Batra today rebutted KPS Gill's allegations that Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has a "conflict of interest" in the national hockey body, saying it was just a "creation" by the banned IHF chief to settle scores with him.


Batra admitted that Jaitley's daughter Sonali fought one of the the many cases for HI for a very brief period but just as a professional and it was unfair to attach any motives.


Gill today dragged the Union Finance Minister into the affairs of HI, urging the Delhi government to probe into the BJP stalwart's "conflict of interest" in the national hockey body.


Former top cop, Gill has written to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, alleging that Jaitley had appointed his daughter Sonali as the counsel for Hockey India when he was a member of the advisory board of Hockey India League. But Batra strongly refuted the allegations, saying Gill's charges were "baseless".

A woman in possession of a fake "pregnancy' belly has been arrested on suspicion of planning to carry out an Islamist suicide bombing.The 23-year-old woman was described as a French convert to Islam, and was arrested alongside her husband, 35, by police in Montpellier. Read more

BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ajay Sancheti hosted a Marwari-Rajasthani lunch for MPs. The venue interestingly, was the chambers of the finance minister. At least 45 MPs from all political parties dug into the dal baati choorma and such like. Though this is regular affair during every session of parliament,  Sancheti who is vegetarian , had 20 courses on the table of the finance minister. Slurp! 

As expected, BJP MP Kirti Azad has become an untouchable after his allegations of corruption in the DDCA under Arun Jaitely's watch. Azad cut a sorry figure in Central Hall today, looking upset as his party colleagues shunned him. But suddenly the MPs were treated to an interesting sight -- Kirti Azad talking to Dr Subramanian Swamy in the Central Hall for more than 15 minutes. After glaring at Azad, the BJP MPs promptly reported the meeting through SMS to the right quarters.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitely will deliver the 28th Intelligence Bureau Centenary Endowment Lecture in New Delhi. Jaitley has prepared a 18-page speech that is believed to be in a lighter vein as compared to the Union Budget speech. The Budget speech will be listened to carefully by the lawmakers and the nation at large and every word will have to be measured. Jaitley has 10 bullet points for the IB on the basis of which he will have an extempore speech. His speech will be uploaded on his website at 6 pm.

The concluding day of the Parliament's winter session saw a certain amount of bonhomie among MPs across parties, missing during the combative and aggressive session.  At the Central Hall, Congress MPs came up to BJP MPs and greeted them, but few of the BJP MPs also heckled the opposition for disruptions.

For the entire session, the Congress ensured that parliament proceedings were disrupted, but on the last day, they were cordial, even enthusiastic in getting pending bills passed -- four bills were passed in 23 minutes! In fact that is precisely what the heckling was about.

Hamid Ansari, the Rajya Sabha chairperson, slammed the opposition saying disruptions resulted in a delay of governance. Whether the grand old party realises it and acts on it will be seen during the Budget session in March. Watch this space.

As the parliament's winter session closes sine die, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who has led the party in aggressive attacks on the government in the house, today requested protesting MPs from her party not to raise slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi while he was present in the Lok Sabha.

On the last day of the winter session, Congress lawmaker Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was in the Well or Centre of the House, when he began to shout a slogan against PM Modi. Sonia, seated in the front of the opposition benches as usual, stopped the lawmaker and told him that while he must raise slogans against corruption, he should not name the PM.

No slogan was raised thereafter against PM Modi while he was in the house. He left for a two-day visit to Russia this afternoon.  

Both PM Modi and Gandhi are members of the Lok Sabha, where the BJP-led government has a commanding majority. The Congress has only 45 Lok Sabha MPs, most of whom spent a better part of the winter session in the Well of the House protesting against PM Modi and his government.  

Former Pakistan World cup winning captain Imran Khan has been appointed as the mentor of Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise Peshawar Zalmi.


Imran who is now the chief of a political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), will return to cricketing activities after a break of more than two decades as he will mentor the Shahid Afridi-led team.Peshawar Zalmi has picked Shahid Afridi as their icon player, for whom they had to pay $75,000 to Islamabad United for having the first pick in the icon player category selection.

Parliament's winter Session ends with Lok Sabha passing 11 bills and Rajya Sabha, three. 

Nearly two years after they met in a refugee camp in Jordan, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday welcomed the Syrian schoolgirl activist Muzoon Almellehan to her new home in northern England. Malala, who moved to Britain in 2012 after being shot in the head in Pakistan by the Taliban for refusing to quit school, won acclaim for her advocacy of women's right to education. She became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more

The Rajya Sabha was adjourned briefly this morning after chaos over the Ram Temple issue in Ayodhya.

Opposition members entered the well of the House over the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's move to collect engraved stones for construction of the temple and transporting them to the temple town in Uttar Pradesh.

Janata Dal (United) MP KC Tyagi raised the issue shortly after the House met on Wednesday. He said the move was aimed at creating a communally charged atmosphere in the state ahead of the elections. Assembly elections are due in the North Indian state in early 2017.

Members entered the well of the house to protest the VHP's action, shouting "stop manufacturing riots in UP."Outside Parliament, BSP chief Mayawati asked the BJP to "restrain its people." The Ram Temple, she said, "has always been on the agenda of the BJP,  RSS and others."

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi intervened on behalf of the government to say that stone carving for construction of the temple has been going at a site 1.5 km away from the disputed site since 1990. The government and the BJP are of the view that the court decision on the dispute should be accepted, he said.


"Please wait for court decision. All of us should respect it," the minister added.Two truckloads of engraved stones from Rajasthan and Gujarat had reportedly arrived in Ayodhya on Monday.


"Now, the time has come for the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. Lots of stones arrived today in Ayodhya and their arrival will continue. We have signals from Modi government that Mandir (temple) construction would be done now," religious leader Mahant Nritya Gopal Das said, news agency Press Trust of India reported.

The VHP had given a call in June for collecting stones for construction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya. Earlier this month, VHP leader Praveen Togadia he trusts Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver on the promise of building the temple. "In the national executive meet of the BJP, a promise was made to build Ram temple on the lines of Gujarat's Somnath temple by passing a law in parliament. I trust Narendra Modi," Mr Togadia had said on December 6 in Bhopal. 

Adviser to the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Wednesday proposed the middle of January 2016 for talks between the foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India, which are slated to be held in Islamabad."Pakistan is now waiting for India's response to the proposed dates,' said Aziz. Aziz was talking to media personnel in Islamabad. Read

Prime Minister Narendra Modi left on a two-day visit to Russia that is expected to take the already close strategic partnership between the two countries to a higher trajectory as he said the trip will deepen bilateral cooperation in economic, energy and security spheres. Cartoonist Ajit Ninan's take in the Times of India.

@abpnewstv  reports that in Rahul Gandhi's cavalcade, cars collided with each other; Congress partymen indulged in fist fight with each other.

Sonia Gandhi tells Congress lawmakers to 'raise slogans against corruption, not PM: Sources

Just in: Maharashtra government to move Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court verdict acquitting actor Salman Khan in a 13-year-old drunken-driving and hit-and-run incident, in which one person was killed and four others injured.

Overturning the order of a lower court, which had in May convicted the actor under charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sentenced him to a jail term of five years, Justice A R Joshi said this was "not a case where prosecution has successfully established its case of all its charges'.

As Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived at Delhi's Safdarjung Airport to pay homage to the 10 BSF personnel who died in a plane crash on Tuesday, a mourning relative confronted him with tough questions.

"Sir, why does a soldier's family have to cry every time?" said the young woman, almost incoherent in her grief. She had to be held back as she aimed a stream of questions at the silent home minister, who was seen wiping his eye at one point.

Nine BSF and one Sashastra Seema Bal personnel were killed when the B 200 Super King crashed through the boundary wall of the Delhi airport.

"Why sir? Why wasn't it a VIP plane? Why were they given such an old plane? It was an old aircraft. This is not right. Sir, please answer me. No, I want an answer right now," she wept.

The 22-year-old Beechcraft crashed moments after it took off for Ranchi at around 9.45 am on Tuesday. Reports suggest that the pilot had noticed a technical snag after starting the engine but was told to continue with the flight.

The pilot, Deputy Commandant Bhagwati Prasad Bhatt of the BSF, diverted the aircraft from populated areas to prevent any civilian deaths.
-- NDTV

Sooraj Pancholi says he would prefer to stay mum on the alleged suicide case of his ex-girlfriend Jiah Khan, even as CBI has in its chargesheet accused the actor of driving her to commit suicide.


The Central Bureau of Investigation filed the chargesheet on December 9, citing that Sooraj made false promises to Jiah, who allegedly committed suicide in 2013.

"Highs and lows are part of life. God is great. The case is still in court. 10 people have 10 different things to say about it. I will talk once the case is cleared. I don't want to make a 'khichdi' (mess) out of it," the actor told reporters at the red carpet of 11th Guild Awards.

The 25-year-old actor was launched in Bollywood this year by Salman Khan in "Hero". When asked if he has the superstar's support in the case, Sooraj said, "Salman has got nothing to do with it. Like every family, my family is supporting me and I am supporting my family."

The BSF today said its crashed Superking aircraft that killed ten of its highly experienced personnel was completely "airworthy" and was flying "very well" as it refuted allegations about any possible defect in the ill-fated plane.

"This aircraft was 20-years-old and in the aviation (domain) an aircraft has life till 40-45 years. In the aviation (domain) such a plane is not considered old as required parts are changed from time to time...like engines are overhauled.

"A major overhauling of this aircraft's engines was done at the Beachcraft factory in Canada about six months back. Only two days back this aircraft did a good duty and a day back it had carried back officers from Bhuj (from the DG/IG meeting)," BSF Director General D K Pathak told reporters today.

"There was no problem in the aircraft and it was completely airworthy. I would like to add that till the time an aircraft is airworthy, there is no problem in flying it," he said.

Former top cop KPS Gill has sent a complaint to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

India Today reports that the former top cop has alleged that Jaitley got his daughter Sonali as the counsel of Hockey India when he was member in the advisory body and had facilitated huge amounts as her fee.

Jaitley has sued six people including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for Rs 10 crore in a defamation suit for their comments that the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) had seen corruption when it was under his watch.

The suit did not include BJP MP and former cricketer Kirti Azad who has been at the forefront alleging corruption in the DDCA under Jaitley's watch.

On December 20, Azad had also released a 28-minute sting video accusing the DDCA of massive financial irregularities under Arun Jaitley. He claimed that a 'Wikileaks4India' investigation has revealed that DDCA awarded contracts to fictitious companies and alleged that 14 companies, which got DDCA contracts, were registered under fake addresses.

The video released had footage of a DDCA annual general meeting of 2011-12 that purportedly showed Azad questioning Arun Jaitley, the then DDCA chief, and shows Jaitley defending DDCA office-bearers who were being questioned by Azad.

Azad alleged that DDCA inflated prices of items and services it procured. He also said DDCA did not float tenders before awarding contracts and demanded an investigation by the Enforcement Directorate and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence.

JUST IN: PM Narendra Modi leaves for Moscow

Police constable Ram Kumar died after being hit by three bullets in a shootout at the Karkardooma Court complex in Delhi.

Constable Ram Kumar had come to the court while escorting prisoner Irfan Chanu for a court hearing. Chanu had been in judicial custody and was to give a witness statement in the Metropolitan Magistrate's court in courtroom number 73.

As soon as the constable entered the court with Chanu, four men opened fire at the prisoner.The firing took place inside the courtroom while the court was in progress.

Sources say the court had already received a threat of a possible attack on Irfan.Constable Ram Kumar suffered three bullet injuries in the chest, the accused Irfan also suffered three bullet injuries while the court clerk got two bullet injuries.

The court clerk and Irfan have been rushed to the hospital. Coonstable Ram Kumar later succumbed to his injuries.All four assailants have been detained. The four assailants reportedly belong to the Naseer gang.Courtroom number 73, where the shootout took place, looks after cases from the Bhajanpura-Seelampura area.

Despite launching attacks around the world targeting civilians, ISIS has been losing ground in Iraq and Syria in 2015, according to an analysis by research firm IHS Conflict Monitor.

The terrorist group has lost 14% of the territory it held in January, including strategically important areas such as the Syrian border-crossing town of Tal Abyad, which was ISIS's main access point to Turkey from its de-facto capital Raqqa. Read more

Chintan Upadhayay, the estranged husband of artist Hema Upadhyay, plotted the murder of his wife as he apparently wanted to get rid of the court cases that he was fighting with her, police said today. Chintan, also an artist and a "prime suspect" in the case ever since the twin murders of Hema (43) and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani (65) came to light on December 12, was arrested yesterday and sent in police custody till January 1.


"He was being questioned for last ten days. He was arrested yesterday after we collected evidences against him," a senior police official said.


According to police, Chintan was fed up of the court cases he was fighting with Hema and plotted to kill her apparently to get rid of them.


It was Chintan's plan to call Hema to Vidyadhar Rajbhar's warehouse in suburban Kandivali, where she and her lawyers were murdered, the official said.


Vidyadhar, who is still at large, had arranged one of his employees to call Hema, pretending to be Jaipur-based domestic help of Chintan, about some evidence that would help her in the divorce case, he said.


The first call was made from Jaipur in November. Both Chintan and Vidyadhar were there in connection with an art festival, he said. Hema had asked the caller to come to Dadar to examine the evidence, but Vidyadhar made the artist to come to his warehouse in Kandivali, claiming that his domestic help did not find Dadar safe.

Hema agreed to come to he warehouse with her lawyer Harish Bhambhani. The accused allegedly killed both of them as they did not want to leave any evidence, police said.

Police said Chintan and others planned the murder about two months back. They had allegedly met at an unknown place and discussed about money to be paid for executing the murder. There are chances that some amount was paid in advance, the police officer said, adding that there could be another brain behind the conspiracy.

Hema, a Baroda-born installation artist, was locked in bitter divorce proceedings with Chintan. She had in 2013 filed a case against him alleging that he painted obscene pictures of women on the walls of their matrimonial home in Mumbai to harass her. Bhambhani had represented Hema in this case.

Delhi HC refuses to stay AAP govt's plan to run private vehicles having odd and even registration numbers on alternate days from Jan 1.

Continuing his tirade against the party leadership, BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha fired a fresh salvo on the ongoing controversy surrounding finance minister Arun Jaitley and MP Kirti Azad.

Sinha tweeted: "Kirti Azad is hero. Have often quoted Newtons 3rd Law. Feel that untimely action cud boomerang. Sadly-Party with a Difference has become Party with Differences. I request friends not to take action against #KirtiAzad. As for FM, issue shud be fought politically not legally. As advised by our dashing dynamic PM, our FM cud follow Advanijis eg & come clean."


BJP leaders have been building a case of disciplinary action against Azad on the grounds of hobnobbing with opposition.

Senior Bihar BJP leader Sushil Modi charged the Darbhanga MP yesterday for "playing in the hands of opposition" and demanded "disciplinary action" against Azad.

To substantiate the ground of hobnobbing with opposition, several other BJP leaders also claimed and stressed that Kirti Azad had embarrassed the party in Lok Sabha on Monday at the nudge of opposition leader Sonia Gandhi by countering Arun Jaitley's clarification over DDCA controversy on the floor of the House.

Sinha, for his part, has been feeling left out and has been sulking after he was sidelined in the Bihar Assembly election campaign. 

Just in: Firing inside Karkardooma court in New Delhi.  A policeman has been injured in the firing at the court in east Delhi, two people have been  arrested. Details awaited.

And Amul's take on the Kejriwal vs Jaitley squabble on the allegations of corruption in DDCA. 

As India lowered the definition of the age of a juvenile to 16 years from the earlier 18 years, CPM's Brinda Karat, asks whether we were too hasty in passing the bill. Read

@ShatruganSinha  tweets: And what about the adults who brutalized Nirbhaya, are in jail, have gone for appeal & no hearing taking place for 3 years. Food for thought.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday escalated protests against Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley demanding his resignation over the alleged irregularities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA). The protests are being led by AAP leader Somnath Bharti.


The protest march to Jaitley's residence was stopped by the police at Tughlaq Road. The protestors were seen holding placards and shouting slogans demanding Jaitley's resignation. Water cannons were aimed at the protestors.


Meanwhile, the Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal talked about ushering in politics of no corruption, and yet he kept a corrupt man close.


"Instead of answering on that, Kejriwal went on a counter attack of abusive language. DDCA has already been investigated, nothing was found. Yet Kejriwal abused not only Jaitley ji but his entire family," he said. Earlier, Jaitley had filed a criminal defamation complaint against Arvind Kejriwal and five other leaders of AAP for allegedly defaming him in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) controversy before a Delhi court, which took cognizance on his plea.

Jaitley's action comes in the backdrop of attacks on him by Kejriwal and other AAP leaders over alleged irregularities and financial bunglings in Delhi's cricket body, DDCA, of which he was the president for about 13 years till 2013.

The Shiv Sena has made fun of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in its newspaper 'Saamna', calling him a balloon who will soon burst.

Now a BBC1 documentary to be screened at 8.30pm tonight promises to delight us like never before as it traces the story of one tiny Emperor penguin, from its emergence into the cold of Antarctica, through its first freezing steps on the ice until the momentous day it leaves its family at just five months old.Snow Chick, narrated by Kate Winslet, is set to be one of the highlights of this year's festive TV schedule.

As much of the world gears up for Christmas, there's one country where citizens could risk time in prison if they are caught celebrating: the tiny, oil-rich sultanate of Brunei.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday paid tribute to Border Security Force plane crash victims at the Safdarjung Airport.

The Congress on Wednesday stepped up its demand for the resignation of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, saying he must follow his 'erstwhile client' and Bharatiya Janata Party veteran leader L K Advani.

Heavy fog has yet again hot flight operations in Delhi. Reports say that the runway visibility is down to only 100 metres. About 7 international and 4 domestic flights. 

JUST IN: The Delhi government has issues notification, and has constituted a one-member commission of inquiry to probe into the DDCA matter.

Her behind broke the internet, and now it seems Kim Kardashian's emoji keyboard has broken the App Store.

Thieves opened fire at a PCR van after being chased by the police at Kodia pul in Delhi late last night.  One person has been arrested.

London Underground ticket inspectors will ruin the ending of Star Wars: The Force Awakens for those travelling without a ticket.

The United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent) led by fugitive commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah has imposed ban on performing Hindi songs by artistes in Rongali Bihu functions in Assam or seven days during April 14 to 20 and warned off unwarranted action against any singer/artiste who choose to defy the diktat.

Renowned journalist Kanwar Sandhu, who has extensively covered Punjab hardline politics over his career,  was " manhandled'  and "thrashed' by Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana in Patiala jail where he had gone to interview the latter on Saturday.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will on Wednesday begin his two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency, Amethi.

A judicial magistrate's court in Bangladesh has ordered the arrest of 24 people and the seizure of their assets after they failed to turn up to face murder charges over the collapse of a garment factory that killed more than 1,100 people in 2013.

US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have developed a strong and productive relationship between them, a top American climate change official has said.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's resignation for the "fraudulent" raid on his office that he got carried out just to save Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a two-day visit to Russia today for annual summit talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin that is aimed at further expanding the special and privileged strategic ties with a particular focus on nuclear energy, hydrocarbons, defence and trade.

An NGO, Watchdog Foundation, on Tuesday lodged a complaint with the Mumbai Traffic Police after one of their trustees noticed the vanity van of actor Shah Rukh Khan parked "illegally" on a cemented road near his residence Mannat in Mumbai's Bandstand, Bandra (West).

Donald Trump's attack on women reached a new level Monday night, as the GOP front-runner used a vulgar term to insult Hillary Clinton and even remarked on her bathroom habits.

As many as 3,200 convicted offenders were mistakenly released too early from Washington state prisons because of errors in calculating good time credit, officials said Tuesday.

Amid the Centre's thrust on the ambitious bullet train project, RJD chief Lalu Prasad today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to explain the rationale behind pursuing an initiative that would cost close to Rs 1 lakh crore in a poor country like India.