The Himachal Pradesh High Court has dismissed Abhishek Manu Singhvi's plea to skip witness testimony in his Rajya Sabha election petition. Justice Virender Singh ruled that witness examination is vital for a fair trial, setting the next hearing for April 20 to schedule evidence recording.
Pawan Khera is facing charges of forgery, cheating, criminal intimidation and conspiracy, based on a complaint filed by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife Riniki Bhuyan Sharma.
Chief Justice Sheel Nagu declined the plea to quash an FIR registered by Haryana's Anti-Corruption Bureau and asked Abhishek Singhvi to continue his arguments.
"I disagree very strongly (with V-P Jagdeep Dhankhar's criticism of the use of Article 142). It was Dr Ambedkar and the framers who thought it fit to trust our Supreme Court and the Supreme Court alone with this special power," says Congress Rajya Sabha MP.
“You cannot impose such concepts artificially on the will of the people … it does not take into account the very fickle loyalties of legislators and the complete mockery we have made of the anti-defection law,” says Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
As Rajya Sabha Chairman announces probe into cash allegedly recovered from seat of Congress MP Abhishek Singhvi, a look at how the fractious House gets this one thing almost absolutely right
Himachal Pradesh High Court maintained that Rajya Sabha MP Harsh Mahajan's arguments would be heard during the trial of Abhishek Manu Singhvi's main application.
In a midnight move, the government on Wednesday sent CBI director Alok Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana on leave after weeks of infighting rocked the investigating agency.
New Delhi, Jan 10 (ANI): Congress leader PC Chacko disagreed with Manish Tewari's statement saying that there was no such troop movement, without information of the government. He added that such statements are creating unnecessary controversies. Echoing similar sentiments, Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the statement given by Manish Tewari is baseless and irrelevant. He stated that during the Raisina Hill incident, Tewari was neither a member of the cabinet committee on security nor any of relevant decision making body.
What Trump achieved and failed to achieve in the Iran war
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More than three months after the United States and Israel launched military operations against Iran, US President Donald Trump can point to some significant military gains. However, several of the broader objectives he articulated at different stages of the conflict remain either incomplete or unmet, according to a Reuters analysis.