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CBI clean cheat over Air India-Indian Airlines merger: BJP must apologise to ex-PM Singh, says Raut

Mumbai, Mar 29 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday asked the BJP to apologise to former prime minister Manmohan Singh after the CBI filed a closure report in its Air India-Indian Airlines merger case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report in its probe into the alleged irregularities in the leasing of aircraft by NACIL, a company formed by the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines during the UPA era, as there was no “evidence of any wrongdoing”, officials said Thursday. NCP leader Praful Patel, who now belongs to the outfit headed

Congress bats for 50 per cent reservation in govt jobs for women, says powerful women will change destiny of India

New Delhi, Mar 29 (PTI) The Congress will reserve 50 per cent of government jobs for women if it is voted to power, former party chief Rahul Gandhi said on Friday, asserting that powerful women will change the destiny of India. Gandhi asked why even today only one in three women is employed and why is there only one woman in 10 government jobs. “Isn’t the population of women in India 50%? Is the presence of women in higher secondary and higher education not 50%? If so, then why is their share in the system so less?” the former Congress

ED wants AAP’s Lok Sabha poll strategy details from Kejriwal’s phone: Atishi

New Delhi, Mar 29 (PTI) The ED is working as BJP’s political weapon and it wants to get details of AAP’s Lok Sabha election strategy by accessing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s phone, senior AAP leader Atishi alleged on Friday. Kejriwal, who is the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), was arrested by the central probe agency on March 21 in the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case and is in its custody till April 1. The insistence of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to look into Kejriwal’s mobile-phone, which is a few months old and did not exist

After Germany and US, United Nations remarks on Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest, says ‘hopes everyone’s rights are protected’

United Nations, March 29, 2024: Amid diplomatic tensions over US and Germany’s remarks over Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest, a spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said we very much “hope” that in India and any country that is having elections, people’s “political and civil rights” are “protected”. According to PTI reports, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric made these remarks on Thursday while he was responding to a question on the “political unrest” in India ahead of the upcoming national elections in the wake of the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the freezing of

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