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As Sachin Pilot vs his long-time adversary Ashok Gehlot picked up pace in court today, the judges were informed by top lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi, "I am not a robot or a post office."

A court hearing on a petition by Sachin Pilot and 18 other rebel Congress MLAs challenging disqualification notices in Rajasthan today saw top lawyers arguing over whether dissent is "anti-party" and whether the Speaker's action on dissenters violates freedom of speech. Top lawyer Harish Salve, representing team Pilot, said in the Rajasthan High Co...

Sachin Pilot and 18 other Congress rebels in Rajasthan will not be disqualified by the Speaker at least till Tuesday, senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi told the Rajasthan High Court today. The rebel MLAs will be given time till Tuesday to respond to disqualification notices for "anti-party activities", which they have challenged in court. This mo...

The Rajasthan High Court has said Sachin Pilot and 18 other Congress rebels in the state cannot be disqualified by the Speaker at least till Tuesday. Team Pilot's challenge to disqualification notices from the Speaker will be heard again on Monday.

Sachin Pilot and other Congress rebels on Thursday challenged in the Rajasthan High Court a move to disqualify them as MLAs, in a dramatic escalation of the party's crisis in Rajasthan. Top lawyers - Mukul Rohatgi, a former Attorney General, and Harish Salve, who has represented India in big international cases - are representing them in court. Sac...

Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram was arrested at Chennai airport today by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a money laundering case. He was accused of taking a Rs 10-lakh bribe during the clearance to INX Media for receiving foreign investment of over Rs. 300 crore in 2007 when his father P Chidambaram was the uni...

Under scrutiny over alleged illegal allocation of mines in Rajasthan, the Vasundhara Raje government has cancelled the allotment of 601 mines. But the opposition Congress is on the offensive, demanding the mine scam be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Rajasthan's Principal Secretary of Mines, Ashok Singhvi, was the mastermind of a mine allocation racket worth crores that came to light with his arrest, say officials of the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

On Wednesday night, a growing pile of cash had policemen in Rajasthan gaping as they counted what they had seized from raids on senior government officials in Udaipur.

As Sachin Pilot vs his long-time adversary Ashok Gehlot picked up pace in court today, the judges were informed by top lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi, "I am not a robot or a post office."

A court hearing on a petition by Sachin Pilot and 18 other rebel Congress MLAs challenging disqualification notices in Rajasthan today saw top lawyers arguing over whether dissent is "anti-party" and whether the Speaker's action on dissenters violates freedom of speech. Top lawyer Harish Salve, representing team Pilot, said in the Rajasthan High Co...

Sachin Pilot and 18 other Congress rebels in Rajasthan will not be disqualified by the Speaker at least till Tuesday, senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi told the Rajasthan High Court today. The rebel MLAs will be given time till Tuesday to respond to disqualification notices for "anti-party activities", which they have challenged in court. This mo...

The Rajasthan High Court has said Sachin Pilot and 18 other Congress rebels in the state cannot be disqualified by the Speaker at least till Tuesday. Team Pilot's challenge to disqualification notices from the Speaker will be heard again on Monday.

Sachin Pilot and other Congress rebels on Thursday challenged in the Rajasthan High Court a move to disqualify them as MLAs, in a dramatic escalation of the party's crisis in Rajasthan. Top lawyers - Mukul Rohatgi, a former Attorney General, and Harish Salve, who has represented India in big international cases - are representing them in court. Sac...

Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram was arrested at Chennai airport today by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a money laundering case. He was accused of taking a Rs 10-lakh bribe during the clearance to INX Media for receiving foreign investment of over Rs. 300 crore in 2007 when his father P Chidambaram was the uni...

Under scrutiny over alleged illegal allocation of mines in Rajasthan, the Vasundhara Raje government has cancelled the allotment of 601 mines. But the opposition Congress is on the offensive, demanding the mine scam be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Rajasthan's Principal Secretary of Mines, Ashok Singhvi, was the mastermind of a mine allocation racket worth crores that came to light with his arrest, say officials of the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

On Wednesday night, a growing pile of cash had policemen in Rajasthan gaping as they counted what they had seized from raids on senior government officials in Udaipur.