News updates: PM declares 38th National Games open in Dehradun, congratulates Uttarakhand for UCC
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"UCC has same team spirit as sports, discrimination against none," said PM Modi after inaugurating National Games in Dehradun. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a blistering attack on AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday, saying the former chief minister came talking about bringing in clean politics but the biggest "liquor scam" took place in Delhi under his watch. Kejriwal started off with a promise of bringing in a new kind of politics but he now lives in a "sheesh mahal", Gandhi told a public rally in Patparganj here for the February 5 assembly polls. Gandhi took a swipe at former deputy chief minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia too, calling him, along with Kejriwal, the "architect of the liquor scam". Gandhi urged people to vote for the Congress' candidate Anil Chaudhary as Sisodia had "run away" from the Patparganj constituency after indulging in corruption. Gandhi said the AAP chief was nowhere to be found when the poor needed him the most and when there was violence in Delhi, an apparent reference to the February 2020 riots.
Former councillor and February 2020 Delhi riots accused Tahir Hussain requested the Supreme Court on Tuesday that he be allowed to campaign in custody for the upcoming Delhi assembly polls. Senior advocate Siddharth Aggarwal, appearing for Hussain, told a bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sanjay Karol and Sandeep Mehta that only four-five days are left for campaigning so he be allowed to connect with the electorate under police custody.
India and China on Monday announced a series of measures to "rebuild" ties including resuming Kailash Mansarovar Yatra in the summer this year and agreeing in principle to restore direct flights. India and China should commit themselves to mutual understanding rather than mutual suspicion, Chinese Finance Minister Wang said as he met Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri. In his meeting with Misri, Wang said that since the meeting between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Russia last year, the two sides have earnestly implemented the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, carried out active interactions at all levels and accelerated the process of improving China-India relations. Months after the border disengagement, Foreign Secretary Misri had arrived in Beijing on Sunday. Tech stocks fell on Monday as global investors worried that the emergence of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model would threaten the dominance of AI leaders like Nvidia, evaporating $593 billion of the chipmaker's market value.
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US pauses foreign assistance to Pakistan for re-evaluation
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Kejriwal's 'poison in Yamuna' remark political stunt of AAP to influence Delhi voters: Haryana CM
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal's remark that the BJP is "mixing poison in the Yamuna" is a "political stunt" by the AAP aimed at influencing voters in the Delhi polls and deflecting attention from its own failures, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said on Tuesday.
He also alleged that the Delhi government has not taken any step to upgrade the Wazirabad water treatment plant in the national capital, according to an official statement here.
Saini said that the issue has been raised with the Election Commission.
The remarks made by Kejriwal is a "political stunt" by the Aam Aadmi Party aimed at influencing voters in the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections and deflecting attention from its own failures, the chief minister said.
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No defamation of leader if Atishi said BJP trying to buy MLAs with huge money: Delhi court
A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed a criminal case filed by a BJP leader against Chief Minister Atishi, saying there was "absolutely no defamation of the media head of the BJP" if the AAP leader "accuses the BJP of trying to buy their MLAs with huge sums of money".
In his judgment, special judge Vishal Gogne said while such tactics may be "part and parcel" of political strategy, a court of law couldn't be a party to the creation of a chilling effect on freedom of speech by admitting or acting upon such efforts to silence whistleblowers or smaller political opponents.
The judge therefore underlined there was "absolutely no defamation of the media head of the BJP if the leader of the AAP accuses the BJP of trying to buy their MLAs with huge sums of money".
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Kejriwal's charges of poisoning Yamuna water, attempt at genocide in Delhi highly objectionable: Delhi LG
"AAP chief Kejriwal's charges of poisoning Yamuna water, attempt at genocide in Delhi highly objectionable," Delhi LG writes to CM Atishi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi declares 38th National Games open in Dehradun
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulates Uttarakhand govt for implementing UCC
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Two Central Industrial Security Force battalions to come up in Nuh, Haryana: CISF
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah holds a roadshow in Delhi's Badarpur area
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No casualities from the plane on fire at Gimhae airport in South Korea - Yonhap citing fire authorities
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Kejriwal lives in 'sheesh mahal'; biggest liquor scam took place in Delhi under him: Rahul
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a blistering attack on AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday, saying the former chief minister came talking about bringing in clean politics but the biggest "liquor scam" took place in Delhi under his watch.
Kejriwal started off with a promise of bringing in a new kind of politics but he now lives in a "sheesh mahal", Gandhi told a public rally in Patparganj here for the February 5 assembly polls.
Gandhi took a swipe at former deputy chief minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia too, calling him, along with Kejriwal, the "architect of the liquor scam".
Gandhi urged people to vote for the Congress' candidate Anil Chaudhary as Sisodia had "run away" from the Patparganj constituency after indulging in corruption.
Gandhi said the AAP chief was nowhere to be found when the poor needed him the most and when there was violence in Delhi, an apparent reference to the February 2020 riots.
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First Published: Jan 28 2025 | 8:59 AM IST