While Anurag Thakur, the BJP Lok Sabha MP from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh and Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, has been banned from campaigning in Delhi election for three days, the party's MP from West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma has been gagged for four days for making controversial remarks.
Kejriwal asserted that in the last five years, he has arranged quality education for the children in Delhi and made arrangements for medicine and tests for the people, asking if working fo the people make him a terrorist.
Sharjeel repeatedly told officers that Muslims were being treated poorly in this country and so he was raising his voice against this
Sharjeel admitted that he said those things but in the heat of the moment. However, officers of the Crime Branch and Special Cell who interrogated Sharjeel believe that he gave the speech as a deliberate strategy.
"This history will be repeated in Maharashtra and the country," Awhad had said in Beed on Wednesday.
Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has received support from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) of Mamata Banerjee for the Delhi Assembly election 2020. TMC national spokesperson Derek O' Brien on Thursday backed AAP in Delhi election and uploaded a video on his Twitter handle in which he endorsed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the candidate from Rajendra Nagar constituency Raghav Chadha and all AAP candidates in the 68 other Assembly seats of the national capital.
The police had not given permission for the pyrotechnic display. So, the same was conducted after approaching the High Court.
Nirbhaya rape and murder case convict Vinay Sharma requested the President to spare time so that his lawyer AP Singh should submit his side before him verbally.
He also criticised the CM for not improving the drinking water situation or solving the air pollution problem in the capital.
President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and CDS General Bipin Rawat paid tribute and laid wreaths decorated with multi-colour flowers to Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat in the national capital.
Vijay Rupani also gave hint that an event 'Howdy Modi' can also be organised at the Motera stadium in Gujarat when the US President would visit the state.
Praveen Kr Jain, vice president, FJCCI, told ANI, "Real estate contributes to a great extent in our economy. Most importantly, it provides employment."
In a major upset in the Australian Open Women's Singles, American Sofia Kenin reached the tournament final after defeating Australia’s Ashleigh Barty 7-6(6) 7-5 on Thursday. Kenin, seeded 14th in the tournament, now awaits the winner of the Simona Halep versus Garbine Muguruza match in the final. Halep faces Muguruza in the second semifinal of Australian Open eomen's singles later on Thursday.
In India, several cases have been reported from Kerala, Gujarat and Delhi but none of the cases have been reported as positive.
Major gainers on the indices were Kotak Mahindra Bank, Pidilite, Escorts, and SBI while IOC, BPCL, TCS and Tech Mahindra included among major losers.
Bibi was sentenced to death on blasphemy charges by a Pakistani court in 2010 but then dramatically acquitted in 2018. She now lives in Canada at an undisclosed location.
The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, as expected, although bank Chairman Jerome Powell`s comments about a low inflation outlook added to US government bonds` appeal.
US fast food giant McDonald's said on Wednesday it closed all of its restaurants in Hubei, the Chinese province at the epicenter of a virus outbreak that has spread beyond the country's borders.
The news raised concerns that Facebook`s best days were behind it, and shares of the world`s biggest social network dropped 7.2% in extended trading.
The lawsuit began in 2015 when Illinois users accused Facebook of violating the state`s Biometric Information Privacy Act in collecting biometric data.
Alphabet Inc`s Google said on Wednesday it is temporarily shutting down all its offices in China due to the outbreak of a new coronavirus in the country.
