Thirteen Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs loyal to Karnataka Janata Party chief and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Tuesday submitted their resignation from Assembly membership to Speaker KG Bopaiah. ...
12:51 PM, Jan 29, 2013
A court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of jailed Gujarat BJP MLA Jetha Bharwad, who had been charged with attempt to murder in a case related to firing during the Assembly elections in December. ...
01:05 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Jetha Bharwad from Gujarat was on Friday arrested by the police in connection with a case of firing during the second phase of the recently concluded assembly elections. ...
05:23 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Patna: School teacher Rupam Pathak was on Tuesday sentenced to life by a CBI court in Bihar after it held her guilty of killing a BJP MLA, who was stabbed in full public view at his Purnia home in January last year. "Rupam Pathak is being sentenced to life for killing the BJP MLA Raj Kishore Keshari," Standing CBI counsel AH Khan said quoting the order of designated CBI Judge...
08:14 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Bangalore: Renewed political activity is expected in the ruling BJP in Karnataka, with former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa inviting party legislators for a breakfast meeting on March 30 when the assembly budget session ends. Yeddyurappa who shifted legislators to a resort on March 18 in a show of strength to mount pressure on the high command to reinstate him as Chief Minister, has been maintaining a low profile for the...
09:08 PM, Mar 28, 2012
LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj are opposed to the move but BS Yeddyurappa has BJP President Nitin Gadkari's support. ...
10:12 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: After Karnataka porngate has hit Gujarat. Two BJP MLAs allegedly watched porn inside the Gujarat Assembly. They were watching porn on a tablet computer while the assembly proceedings was on. Gujarat Speaker Ganpat Vasava has ordered a probe into allegations against two BJP MLAs of watching obscene pictures during Assembly proceedings. Sources said that the two MLAs facing the allegations are Shankarbhai Lagadhirbhai Chaudhary and Jethabhai Ghelabhai Ahir...
11:29 AM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: BJP MLA from Bhopal Dhruv Narayan Singh on Wednesday appeared before the CBI for the lie-detection test in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood, even as the two prime accused architect Zahida Parvez and her friend Saba Farooqui refused to give their consent for it. Singh arrived at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory with the CBI for his polygraph test at around 11 AM, agency...
01:47 PM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: Slain IPS officer Narender Kumar's wife has demanded CBI probe into her husband's killing, saying it was a murder and not accident. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan had ordered a judicial probe into the incident. The probe into the incident that sparked an outrage was announced by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, a day after 30-year-old Narendra Kumar Singh was crushed under the wheels of a...
10:37 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Bhind: A young IPS officer was attacked allegedly by liquor barons, including supporters of former BJP MLA Narendra Singh, in Bhind district when he tried to check illegal sale of liquor on the day when another promising officer was crushed to death allegedly by the mining mafia. The alleged incident occurred on Thursday when some liquor shops located on the Etawah and Lahar Road were selling liquor illegally despite the...
07:33 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Bangalore: The Lokayukta court on Friday cancelled the bail of BJP MLA Y Sampangi, facing corruption charges and remanded him to judicial custody till Saturday when the two witnesses in the case will be examined. Lokayukta court judge N K Sudhindra Rao cacelled the bail of Sampangi, after the court found him guilty of threatening a witness. The court further remanded him to judicial custody till Saturday when the examination...
05:01 PM, Oct 28, 2011
Bangalore: Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj accepted the support letter of ten rebel BJP MLAs to the Yeddyurappa Government. Sources said that the Karnataka Governor has not yet given approval for assembly session from Monday and has sought time for that. In the context of the Supreme Court judgement, the Karnataka Governor has sent a special report to the Central Government. The report talks about the political situation in Karnataka and...
07:43 PM, May 15, 2011
Purnia: The editor of a local weekly, which had first reported the sexual harassment complaint of Rupam Pathak who stabbed to death in full public view BJP MLA Kishore Keshari, was on Thursday arrested after an FIR was lodged against him and the woman. Keshari's nephew Sudip Keshari lodged an FIR with the K-Hat police station against Rupam Pathak, Navlesh Pathak, editor of an English weekly and an unknown person...
02:26 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Rupam pathak attacked Kesari at his residence when he was meeting people of his constituency. ...
09:59 PM, Jan 04, 2011
Patna: Terming as "tragic" the killing of ruling BJP MLA Raj Kishore Keshari in Bihar, Congress on Tuesday demanded that a judicial inquiry should be conducted into the incident. "We strongly condemn the killing, it is tragic... a judicial inquiry be ordered into it," state Congress spokesperson Premchandra Mishra said. Had police taken the alleged killer's complaint of sexual harassment against the MLA seriously, what happened on Tuesday would have...
12:59 PM, Jan 04, 2011
Bangalore: Just 36 hours before the do-or-die trust vote in the Karnataka Assembly, horse trading is on in full swing. On Saturday, the BJP released an audio tape of how JDS's H D Kumaraswamy was allegedly heard offering a cabinet berth to a BJP MLA if he defected to his party. Here is how the alleged conversation went: H D Kumaraswamy: BJP MLA Shankaralinge Gowda claims that you are also...
08:34 PM, Oct 09, 2010
Phulbani: Orissa BJP MLA Manoj Pradhan has been convicted in the 2008 Kandhamal communal riots case. He has been sentenced to six years in prison by a fast track court. Pradhan was convicted for his involvement in the murder of one Bikram Nayak and for inciting communal violence. Pradhan, who is the sitting MLA from the communally sensitive Udayagiri constituency, had 12 cases registered against him for his alleged involvement...
08:24 PM, Sep 09, 2010
Rajkumar was admitted to a local hospital and is under treatment. He is a BJP MLA from Sahaspur in Uttarakhand. ...
02:37 PM, Jul 12, 2010
The teacher alleged that BJP MLA Raj Kishore Kesri and his supporters had raped her for more than three years. ...
04:05 PM, May 31, 2010
Yogi had been elected from the constituency three times. ...
11:28 AM, Nov 16, 2008
