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President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday appointed Vinai Kumar Saxena as the new Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. Saxena will replace Anil Baijal, who resigned from the post last week. "The President of India is pleased to appoint Vinai Kumar Saxena as the Lieutenant Governor of the National Capital Territory of Delhi with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office," read a

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Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai left for New Delhi on Friday afternoon amid talk of a major revamp. This is his second visit to the national capital this month.  According to Bommai's itinerary, he is scheduled to meet Union ministers while his return journey is kept open.  Bommai was in New Delhi on May 10 and 11. He had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah who

Aam Aadmi Party MLA Kuldeep Kumar was on Wednesday detained by the Delhi Police after he tried to obstruct the anti-encroachment demolition drive in the national capital's Kalyanpuri area. "Today again BJP's hooliganism is seen on Delhi streets. Will not allow BJP to do hooliganism in the area. People have been living here for years," the AAP MLA said. The AAP leader raised

The city police on Tuesday informed the Delhi High Court that security outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence, where an incident of vandalism occurred in March, has been beefed up with the deployment of additional armed guards. The police said the proposal to curtail entry on the road where the chief minister’s residence is located is also under consideration and

An appeal has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court's split verdict on the issue of criminalisation of marital rape on a batch of petitions challenging the exception in the law that exempts husbands from being prosecuted for non-consensual sexual intercourse with their wives. The appeal has been filed by Khushboo Saifi, one of the petitioners before

The Supreme Court, earlier this week, declined to entertain a plea by the CPI(M) against an anti-encroachment drive in Shaheen Bagh carried out by South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC). The top court drew a distinction between the anti-encroachment drive at Jahangirpuri - which was halted until further orders - and at Shaheen Bagh, saying it won't protect encroachment being

North and South Delhi Municipal Corporation authorities on Friday initiated anti-encroachment drives in various parts of the city, including at a civic stadium at Mangolpuri which had been illegally occupied by a few people who had also "brought in cattle inside its premises," a senior official said.

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Civic authorities on Wednesday carried out an anti-encroachment drive in Najafgarh and other areas in south Delhi, as bulldozers continued to roll in the city to carry out the action. A day earlier, South Corporation had carried out a drive to remove illegal temporary structures and demolish a few brick walls in New Friends Colony.

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Days after rebuke by the Supreme Court, Delhi police has made a volte face to lodge an FIR in a case related to hate speech in a religious Dharma Sansad, organised in December, last year. 

The Supreme Court on Friday referred to a five-judge Constitution bench for adjudication of an issue regarding the control over administrative services in the national capital on a plea by the Centre in its dispute with the Delhi government.

Keeping up the suspense on whether his Cabinet will be expanded or reshuffled, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said Thursday that he is ready to go to New Delhi as soon as he hears from the BJP top brass.  “Union Home Minister Amit Shah said he’ll talk to everyone in Delhi and let me know. Once he lets me know, I’m ready to go (to Delhi),” Bommai told reporters. 

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre and the Delhi government on a plea seeking directions for mandatory insurance for electric two-wheelers. Seeking a response from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and the city government, the division bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla slated the matter for October 20.

Seeking to project itself as a better alternative to the Congress and the BJP ahead of Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat Assembly polls, the AAP claimed 91 per cent of 11.5 lakh respondents to its survey in Delhi believe the saffron party orchestrates riots. Eight per cent of the Delhiites who took part in the survey believe the Congress "engineers" riots and hooliganism in the

Karnataka may have been the first state to introduce an electric vehicle (EV) policy, but it is miles away from New Delhi and is likely to be overtaken by other states that are aggressively pushing for EV adoption and creating the necessary infrastructure. Researchers from The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) looked into the readiness and capacity needs for EV adoption in

The Delhi airport surpassed the Dubai airport to emerge the second busiest airport in March in terms of total seat capacity and frequency of domestic and international flights, according to leading global travel data provider Official Airline Guide (OAG). This is a "quantum leap" for the Indira Gandhi International airport compared to its ranking of 23rd in April 2019 before

BJP's Delhi unit held a protest here on Saturday against the AAP government for not reducing value-added tax (VAT) on diesel and petrol prices in the capital.  BJP leaders alleged that the AAP government did not cut VAT on petrol and diesel, thereby making them costlier in Delhi. The protest comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently flagged higher fuel prices in many

The Centre has told the Supreme Court that the model of governance of the NCT of Delhi will invariably require the Union government to play a central role even if a legislative assembly or a council of ministers is introduced. The Union government asked the apex court that the contentious issue of who should control administrative services in Delhi be referred to a

In a state beset with legacy problems like a Rs 3 lakh-crore debt, farm stagnation, restive population, rising unemployment, and an entrenched drug menace, the ecstasy that follows a win as massive as 92/117 is bound to run into a wall called “heightened expectations”. In a little over a month, Punjab’s Bhagwant Singh Mann government has been barely able to grapple with the

Amid signals of disgruntlement among a section of the ruling BJP in Karnataka, about the delay in expansion or reshuffle of the cabinet, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai who will be on an official visit to Delhi on April 30, Thursday said he has not thought about meeting the party high command for now. With polls scheduled next year, there is pressure mounting on the CM to

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday hinted at floating a national party to implement an alternative national agenda. Addressing the plenary of TRS here, KCR, as the Chief Minister is popularly known, said that suggestions have come to turn Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) into Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi (BRS).