The death of Café Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha, son-in-law of former Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna, was expected to trigger uproar in Parliament. Congress MP Manish Tewari gave notice of an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha over alleged harassment of the businessman by income tax officials, which the party says drove him to take his own life. The note In a note attributed to him, recovered after his disappearance, Siddhartha accused a private equity partner of pressuring him to buy back shares. He also alleged harassment by aRead More

Legislators in Bihar will be able to buy residential plots of two kathas each in Patna at a price set by the state government, in what has been described as a gift ahead of the assembly election. The land, in the Ashiananagar area of the capital, is to be arranged through a new housing cooperative of legislators. How the scheme works The Bihar State Cooperative Federation and the Bihar Land Development Bank will act as nodal agencies to provide land to the Swablambi Grih Nirman Sahyog Samiti. The cooperative isRead More

The Congress may appoint an interim president later this week to steer the party until a formal election for the top post, amid growing unease in its ranks. Rahul Gandhi, who resigned as party president, urged colleagues during an informal discussion in Parliament on Tuesday to speed up a decision on the arrangement that will replace him. Rahul Gandhi rules out family Gandhi firmly rejected suggestions that a member of his family, including his sister Priyanka Gandhi, should take over as party chief. A senior leader familiar with the discussionsRead More

Rohtak police have registered a case against Haryana’s Minister of State for Cooperation, Manish Grover, over alleged criminal intimidation and undue influence during the recent Lok Sabha election, officials said. The FIR was filed on Tuesday at the Shivaji Nagar police station against Grover and Ramesh Lohar, who has a police history sheet. The charges According to officials, the two have been booked under Indian Penal Code sections dealing with criminal conspiracy, undue influence at elections, a public servant disobeying the law, criminal intimidation and disobedience of an order issuedRead More

The Supreme Court on Wednesday took judicial notice of the Unnao rape case and listed it for hearing on Thursday, along with a report from the court’s Secretary General. Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi expressed displeasure that a letter written by the survivor’s family on July 12 had not been placed before him by the court’s registry. What the CJI said Justice Gogoi said media reports had made it appear as though he had been sitting on the letter. “I had not even seen such a letter until yesterdayRead More