Delhi High Court Reserves Verdict On Arvind Kejriwal's Bail Plea in CBI Case

The Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party has dissolved all the district and lower-level committees in Jammu and Kashmir with immediate effect.

The dissolved committees include the Pulwama district committee, a party release stated on Monday.

This decision was finalised after careful consideration effective from July 28, it said. 

The AAP on Monday said the central probe agencies have failed to find any evidence in the excise policy case and asserted that it is a "staunchly honest" party.

The reaction from the ruling party in Delhi came hours after the CBI filed its final charge sheet in the trial court against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and five others, including AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak, in the case.

The BJP and its agencies have been investigating this case for two years, filing over 50,000-page charge sheets and interrogating more than 500 witnesses, while conducting raids at multiple locations, the AAP said in a statement.

 Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Monday termed the Samajwadi Party as "Samaaptwadi Party", and said the SP chief has become a pawn of the Congress.

Maurya also said if Samajwadi Party's relationship with criminals and mafia ends, then the party will come to an end.

Addressing the working committee meeting of the BJP's state unit of the Backward Classes Morcha in Lucknow, Maurya said, "Samajwadi Party is Samaaptwadi Party. The SP chief has become a pawn of the Congress.

"If there is anyone who is the kingpin of criminals, mafia and corrupt people in Uttar Pradesh, then it is Akhilesh Yadav and company. Samajwadi Party's relationship with criminals and mafia has not ended. If Samajwadi Party's relationship with criminals and mafia ends, then Samajwadi Party will itself end," he said.

A team of Anti Corruption Bureau on Monday arrested two officers of Water Resources department in Rajasthan's Udaipur for taking a bribe of Rs 40,000, an official said.

DG ACB Raviprakash Meherda said Executive Engineer Ganpat Sharma and Additional Administrative Officer Gajendra Singh had demanded a bribe of Rs 90,000 from the complainant to issue work order to his firm.

India's humanitarian assistance containing 9 tons of medical supplies left New Delhi today, for Port-au-Prince. The consignment includes blood transfusion essentials, reagents for Immunohematology, Rapid tests and ELISA, among others.

Delhi excise policy 'scam': High Court reserves verdict on Arvind Kejriwal's bail plea in CBI case    

Delhi Police has issued a notice to MCD seeking information in the investigation of a case registered in connection with the death of 3 students at a coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar on July 27: Delhi Police

Rain lashes several parts of Gujarat’s Gandhinagar city

Senior Advocate Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing CM Arvind Kejriwal, began his submissions by arguing that the case represents an "insurance arrest." He stated that Kejriwal has been granted bail thrice in the ED case. Singhvi also pointed out that since Kejriwal's arrest by the CBI, there has been no confrontation or new developments. He argued that the distinction between bail and writ petitions does not impact the case's merit.

India’s rapid development positions it as a global partner: EAM Jaishankar. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar says "It is important for our partners in Japan to appreciate the scale and intensity of the changes which are underway in India to give you a sense for the change. If you look at the last 10 years, we have on average built 8 new airports every year, about 1.5 -2 new metros in new cities every year, we build 28 km of highways every day, we lay railway tracks of 8 km every day. If you look at our education and skills, the educational institutions have doubled in the last 10 years and it is no accident that there are now 1,600 global capability centres across India that generate exports of more than $100 billion every year. We are not just a more attractive economic partner but we are also a more capable one and in a range of domains in areas like semiconductors, electric vehicles, space, drones, green energy, India is actually today seeking to leapfrog it has the ambitions and increasingly the ability to become a global partner for many advanced economies..."

Jaishankar highlights India’s rapid infrastructure growth & global economic role. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar says "It is important for our partners in Japan to appreciate the scale and intensity of the changes which are underway in India to give you a sense for the change. If you look at the last 10 years, we have on average built 8 new airports every year, about 1.5 -2 new metros in new cities every year, we build 28 km of highways every day, we lay railway tracks of 8 km every day. If you look at our education and skills, the educational institutions have doubled in the last 10 years and it is no accident that there are now 1,600 global capability centres across India that generate exports of more than $100 billion every year. We are not just a more attractive economic partner but we are also a more capable one and in a range of domains in areas like semiconductors, electric vehicles, space, drones, green energy, India is actually today seeking to leapfrog it has the ambitions and increasingly the ability to become a global partner for many advanced economies..."

EAM S Jaishankar addresses on Quad foreign minister' meet 

Delhi Fire Department started the process of cancelling the NOC of the building in which Rau IAS coaching was functioning.

BJP councilors standing on tables and holding placards in MCD House protest against the death of 3 UPSC aspirants in Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar.  The House was adjourned following a protest by BJP councilors.

Atmosphere of fear in India, and that fear has pervaded every part of our country says LoP Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha

Budget has stabbed middle class which enthusiastically banged thalis when asked to do so by Prime Minister Modi: Rahul Gandhi in LS

LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi says, "Thousands of years ago, in Kurukshetra, six people trapped Abhimanyu in a 'Chakravyuh' and killed him...I did a little research and found out that 'Chakravyuh' is also known as 'Padmavuyh' - which means 'Lotus formation'. 'Chakravyuh' is in the shape of a Lotus. In the 21st century, a new 'Chakravyuh' has been formed - that too in the form of a Lotus. Prime Minister wears its symbol on his chest. What was done with Abhimanyu, is being down with India - the youth, farmers, women, small and mediums businesses...Today, too there are six people in the centre of 'Chakravyuh'...Six people control today too -Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Mohan Bhagwat, Ajit Doval, Ambani and Adani." After Speaker Om Birla's intervention, he says, "...If you want, I will omit the names of NSA, Ambani and Adani, and take just 3 names."
 

 Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav says, "New tiger reserves will be established...States where there are no tigers will be provided with tigers. Tiger is our national animal, so all states should have tigers."

 Delhi LG VK Saxena reaches the IAS coaching institute in Old Rajinder Nagar, where 3 UPSC aspirants died due to drowning on 27th July. Protesting students meet him and voice their concerns.
 

UPSC Students Death Case: Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi Calls Emergency Meeting

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Pralhad Joshi flags off NCCF vans carrying tomatoes to be sold to the public at Rs 60 per kg in Delhi NCR from today.

"It's a painful incident. It's the responsibility of the officers to plan and provide NOCs, the question is who all are responsible and what actions are being taken against them. It's not just a single case of illegal building, we are seeing it in UP that illegal buildings are being bulldozed, will this govt will run a bulldozer here or not?" says Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav, in Lok Sabha.

Delhi Police use water cannon to disperse the BJP workers and leaders who are protesting against AAP Government in Delhi, near AAP office, over the Old Rajinder Nagar incident where 3 students died after the basement of a coaching institute was filled with water on July 27.

In Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar incident, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has terminated a Junior Engineer and suspended an Assistant Engineer and seeks an explanation from the concerned Executive Engineer: MCD Commissioner Ashwani Kumar

The Supreme Court has adjourned the hearing until August 5 on the AAP leader Manish Sisodia's petition challenging the Delhi High Court order rejecting his bail plea in an excise policy money laundering case. The court has given the Enforcement Directorate until Thursday, August 1 to file a reply. At the same time, the CBI has informed the Supreme Court that it has filed a reply, and the Court has directed to bring the CBI's reply on record.

Delhi Municipal Corporation took a big action after the accident at Rajendra Nagar coaching centre in Delhi.

Delhi Municipal Corporation Commissioner Ashwani Kumar terminated the local JE and suspended the AE.

This is the first big action taken by the corporation against the officials after the accident.

Jharkhand:  Ruling MLAs stage a protest outside the Jharkhand Assembly regarding the issue of Bangladeshi intruders.

Speaking on the same minister Deepak Birua stated, "Some people want to destabilize the state by raising the issue of demography and we have staged a protest against it...The government will take this issue very seriously"
 

The Rajya Sabha proceedings, presided by Vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar begins by a minute of silence to honor the late BJP leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Prabhat Jha on Monday.

Prabhat Jha passed away on July 26th. 

Proceedings of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha commence for the day. Lok Sabha Speaker Congratulates Manu Bhaker on winning the first medal for India.

New Delhi: Delhi Police have arrested five more people in connection with the deaths of three civil service aspirants due to waterlogging in the coaching insitute's basement. 

Previously, two persons, Abhishek Gupta (owner of the building) and Depshal Singh (Coordinator) were arrested.

The total number of arrests made is now at seven, including the owners of the building. 

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is holding a legislative party meeting ahead of the Monsoon session on Monday. 

New Delhi: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and others at Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi in connection with the Excise policy case.

Madhya Pradesh: Two 'kanwariyas' died and 14 were injured after a truck hit a tractor-trolley in Morena in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, a police official said.

The incident took place at 5am on National Highway number 44, some 10 kilometres from the district headquarters, which led to enraged villagers beating up the truck driver and also blocking the arterial road for some time, the official said.

"The tractor-trolley was trailing the kanwariya procession to provide assistance. Two kanwariyas, Bharat Lal Sharma (37) and Ramnaresh Shrama (26) from Sihoniya area, died and 14 are injured. The injured have been hospitalised and are currently out of danger. The roadblock by the villagers has been cleared," Morena Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Anurag Thakur said.

A sizable number of personnel has been deployed at the site to ensure law and order; the additional SP informed.

'Kanwars' are pilgrims who carry water from the Ganga to perform 'jal abhishek' of Shivlings during the Hindu month of Shravan. 

Bhopal: Former Madhya Pradesh minister and senior Congress leader Arif Aqueel passed away on Monday at the age of 72 in a private hospital in Bhopal after prolonged illness, family sources said.

Aqueel, who was elected from Bhopal North assembly seat six times in his long political career, is survived by his wife, three sons and one daughter.

He won as an Independent MLA for the first time in 1990 and later joined the Congress. He emerged victorious from Bhopal North seat in the 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013 and 2018 assembly polls. However, he lost the polls from Bhopal North in 1993 as a Janata Dal supported candidate.

He was a prominent Muslim face of the party and was cabinet minister in the Congress governments led by Digvijaya Singh (1996-2003) and Kamal Nath (2018-2020).

Both Singh and Nath expressed grief at the death of Aqueel. 

New Delhi: Security has been beefed up in the Old Rajinder Nagar area amid a protest by civil service aspirants over the death of three students due to flooding in their institute's basement following heavy rains, officials said on Monday.

The protesting aspirants have gathered outside Rau's IAS Study Circle demanding justice for the students who lost their lives on Saturday.

"We have deployed paramilitary forces and police in the area to maintain law and order," a senior police officer said.

The three civil services aspirants lost their lives after the basement of Rau's IAS Study Circle was flooded following rains on Saturday.

A massive protest was witnessed on Sunday as well when the students squatted and blocked both the carriageways of the Pusa Road near the Karol Bagh Metro Station.

"We request all to maintain law and order. The Pusa Road is an important road with many hospitals in the vicinity. We have barricaded the area and deployed additional force to maintain peace. We will ensure that no one is disturbed due to the protest," said the officer.

Security around the Uttar Pradesh State Assembly increased before the commencement of the Monsoon Session.

A goods train derailed in Bhubaneswar in the early hours of Monday, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) said.

The incident happened at 1.35 am in the railway yard at Mancheswar station, it said in a statement.

There was no loss of life or damage to properties due to the derailment, it added.

Because of the derailment, two trains were cancelled and six trains were rescheduled, while the Puri-Rourkela Express was short-terminated in both directions, the statement said.

The line was cleared for movement of trains at 5.05 am, it said.

As the Parliament is scheduled to continue its ongoing Budget Session on Monday, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Jammu and Kashmir Appropriation Bill, 2024.

Students in Old Rajinder Nagar stand firm in their protests against the deaths of three students yesterday due to major waterlogging and flooding in the coaching institute.
 

The 45-year-old son of a Thane Shiv Sena (UBT) leader died of a heart attack during an argument with an autorickshaw driver in Vasai in Palghar district, after which police registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against an unidentified person, an official said on Monday.

Milind More, son of Raghunath More, former Thane district chief of the undivided Shiv Sena, was at a resort in Navapur with his family when the incident took place late Sunday evening, Deputy Commissioner of Police Jayant Bajbale said.

"While moving out of the resort, he had an argument with a rickshaw driver, during which he collapsed and was rushed to a nearby hospital. Doctors there declared him dead on arrival and opined heart attack as the prima facie cause," he said.

Amid severe rainfall, a new batch of 1,677 pilgrims left the Jammu base camp for the Amarnath shrine in the hours of Sunday amid tight security arrangements, officials said.

The 31st batch of pilgrims includes around 1,300 men and 200 women. It also included two children and 104 sadhus and sadhvis who left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp at 3.35 am in a convoy of 67 vehicles escorted by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), they said.

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu expressed his gratitude towards India's support and assistance to the island nation in debt repayment. The President of the Island Nation hoped for continued ties and to sign a free trade agreement.

Six people were injured in a fire early Monday at a restaurant in the INA market in south Delhi which also engulfed two adjacent fast-food joints, officials said.

They said a call about the blaze was received at 3.18 am and seven fire tenders were pressed into service. They took about two hours to douse the fire, a Delhi Fire Service (DFS) official said.

Some restaurant workers sleeping inside got injured in the fire that also gutted two adjacent fast-food joints, he said. The official said two of the injured were admitted to the AIIMS while four others at the Safdarjung Hospital.