Convicts Heading Parties

Democratic Party Senator Bob Menendez, who headed the powerful US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been convicted of acting as a "foreign agent" for Egypt, and of a slew of corruption charges.

A special CBI court convicted a former Kerala Police Deputy Superintendent of Police and three others for attempting to kill a police officer on suspicion of him leaking the news of a party organised by liquor barons that was attended by police officers.

The Supreme Court today sought the responses of the government and the Election Commission on a PIL seeking to restrain convicted politicians from running and holding posts in political parties.

The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on the appeals filed by four death row convicts in the December 16, 2012 gang-rape and murder case. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra asked the parties concerned to file their written submissions within a week.

Main opposition party DMK's M K Stalin has congratulated new Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and has offered a word of advice - "Don't be a remote-controlled Chief Minister." The reference is to AIADMK chief VK Sasikala, dispatched yesterday to a jail in Bengaluru for four years in a corruption case by the Supreme Court. Mr Palanis...

Governor C Vidyasagar Rao heard competing pitches tonight from within the ruling party of Tamil Nadu over who should be Chief Minister. However, sources said he will not disclose a decision tonight on which faction of the AIADMK should take a shot at proving its leader should be head of the government.

Ahead of being jailed today, VK Sasikala executed precise action to ensure that the controls of her party, the AIADMK, will remain firmly in her clutches. Two nephews, expelled by party matriarch J Jayalalithaa in 2011 were brought back to the party by her; one of them, TTV Dinakaran, was made the party's No 2 with the title of Deputy General Secre...

Time up, VK Sasikala must surrender in Bengaluru right away, the Supreme Court has told the AIADMK chief, whose lawyers appealed for more time. Ms Sasikala is still in Chennai and will travel the 345 km to Bengaluru by road today escorted by the police from both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to begin a four-year prison term ordered yesterday by the top ...

Hours after VK Sasikala's run for Chief Minister was brought to a skidding halt by the Supreme Court, which found her guilty of corruption, she has moved at breakneck speed to ensure she remains the show-runner of the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu. Ms Sasikala was sentenced this morning to four years in prison - it's uncertain when she has to head to...

As party chief VK Sasikla expelled him, Tamil Nadu's interim Chief Minister O Panneerselvam urged legislators of the ruling AIADMK to "sink differences, work together and keep the party united to continue Amma's good rule." He has sent a team of party leaders to the five-star resort near Chennai where Ms Sasikala has just had her loyalist and the s...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas on Saturday asked Mehbooba Mufti, set to head the new PDP-BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir, to clear her stand on Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.

O Panneerselvam may have replaced J Jayalalithaa, his convicted party head, as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, but he's making sure everyone sees, literally, where his allegiance lies.

Silvio Berlusconi has returned to the political scene after a tax fraud conviction, striking a deal with the leader of the largest centre-left party on electoral reform that could give Italy badly needed stability.

The conviction of Arun Gawli, the 'Daddy' of the city and 10 others in the murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar may be the final nail in the coffin for Gawli and his party the Akhil Bharatiya Sena. The special MCOCA court accepted Gawli as being the head of the political wing of an organised crime syndicate - the Akhil Bharatiya Sena...

Democratic Party Senator Bob Menendez, who headed the powerful US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been convicted of acting as a "foreign agent" for Egypt, and of a slew of corruption charges.

A special CBI court convicted a former Kerala Police Deputy Superintendent of Police and three others for attempting to kill a police officer on suspicion of him leaking the news of a party organised by liquor barons that was attended by police officers.

The Supreme Court today sought the responses of the government and the Election Commission on a PIL seeking to restrain convicted politicians from running and holding posts in political parties.

The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on the appeals filed by four death row convicts in the December 16, 2012 gang-rape and murder case. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra asked the parties concerned to file their written submissions within a week.

Main opposition party DMK's M K Stalin has congratulated new Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and has offered a word of advice - "Don't be a remote-controlled Chief Minister." The reference is to AIADMK chief VK Sasikala, dispatched yesterday to a jail in Bengaluru for four years in a corruption case by the Supreme Court. Mr Palanis...

Governor C Vidyasagar Rao heard competing pitches tonight from within the ruling party of Tamil Nadu over who should be Chief Minister. However, sources said he will not disclose a decision tonight on which faction of the AIADMK should take a shot at proving its leader should be head of the government.

Ahead of being jailed today, VK Sasikala executed precise action to ensure that the controls of her party, the AIADMK, will remain firmly in her clutches. Two nephews, expelled by party matriarch J Jayalalithaa in 2011 were brought back to the party by her; one of them, TTV Dinakaran, was made the party's No 2 with the title of Deputy General Secre...

Time up, VK Sasikala must surrender in Bengaluru right away, the Supreme Court has told the AIADMK chief, whose lawyers appealed for more time. Ms Sasikala is still in Chennai and will travel the 345 km to Bengaluru by road today escorted by the police from both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to begin a four-year prison term ordered yesterday by the top ...

Hours after VK Sasikala's run for Chief Minister was brought to a skidding halt by the Supreme Court, which found her guilty of corruption, she has moved at breakneck speed to ensure she remains the show-runner of the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu. Ms Sasikala was sentenced this morning to four years in prison - it's uncertain when she has to head to...

As party chief VK Sasikla expelled him, Tamil Nadu's interim Chief Minister O Panneerselvam urged legislators of the ruling AIADMK to "sink differences, work together and keep the party united to continue Amma's good rule." He has sent a team of party leaders to the five-star resort near Chennai where Ms Sasikala has just had her loyalist and the s...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas on Saturday asked Mehbooba Mufti, set to head the new PDP-BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir, to clear her stand on Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.

O Panneerselvam may have replaced J Jayalalithaa, his convicted party head, as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, but he's making sure everyone sees, literally, where his allegiance lies.

Silvio Berlusconi has returned to the political scene after a tax fraud conviction, striking a deal with the leader of the largest centre-left party on electoral reform that could give Italy badly needed stability.

The conviction of Arun Gawli, the 'Daddy' of the city and 10 others in the murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar may be the final nail in the coffin for Gawli and his party the Akhil Bharatiya Sena. The special MCOCA court accepted Gawli as being the head of the political wing of an organised crime syndicate - the Akhil Bharatiya Sena...