Pawan Bansal

The rancour in Punjab between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party peaked today with the Congress dubbing Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal "Hitler".

In the build-up to the October 17 Congress president election, a new name emerged today. Former Union Minister Pawan Bansal became the second leader to collect nomination forms after Shashi Tharoor, but they might be for someone else.

Amid suspense over who could take on Shashi Tharoor in Congress president polls, party central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry said AICC treasurer Pawan Bansal has got nomination forms collected, adding that it may be for someone else.

BJP's Kirron Kher has won from Chandigarh with 46,970 votes. Her next closest contestant was Pawan Kumar Bansal of the Congress who bagged 1,84,218 votes.

Fifty nine seats in seven states are voting today in the final round of the mammoth national election that began last month. The states which are polling today are Punjab (13), Uttar Pradesh (13), West Bengal (9), Bihar (8), Madhya Pradesh (8), Himachal Pradesh (4), Jharkhand (3) and Chandigarh (1).

The candidature of Kirron Kher from Chandigarh has caused a rift within the BJP ranks in Punjab, sources told NDTV. Kirron Kher had wrested the Chandigarh seat in 2014 from the Congress's Pawan Bansal, who won it three consecutive times. But her nomination this time was announced at the last minute, over-riding the objections of the Chandigarh BJP ...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached cash worth Rs 89.68 lakh in a money laundering case involving the nephew of Congress leader and former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal.

A day before the Lok Sabha election's fifth phase of voting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold rallies in UP and Madhya Pradesh. The prime minister will be in Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi and Sagar.

The Congress on Tuesday night declared 20 more Lok Sabha candidates retaining some of its sitting lawmakers in Punjab including Sunil Jakhar from Gurdaspur, Gurjit Singh Aujla from Amritsar, Ravneet Singh Bittu from Ludhiana and Santokh Singh Chaudhary from Jalandhar.

After introducing loyalty affidavits for ticket seekers in Punjab, the Congress has made it mandatory for the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation polls. The party has asked all ticket seekers to submit a public declaration form on stamp paper duly attested by notary.

A Delhi court has chided the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for "negligence" in delaying submission of two CDs containing purported telephonic conversations intercepted during its probe in a cash-for-post railway bribery case, allegedly involving former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla and others.

Former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who was summoned as a witness in the Rs 10 crore cash-for-post railway bribery case, today sought exemption from personal appearance on health grounds before a special court.

CBI sources said the enquiries will look into alleged irregularities in the extension of credit facilities by UCO Bank and Bank of Maharashtra in the borrowers account facilitated by Pawan Bansal of Altius Finserve, an accused in the Syndicate Bank bribery scandal, and his associates.

Chairman & Managing Director of Syndicate Bank SK Jain and seven others were on Sunday remanded in CBI custody for four days as the agency plans to probe various other angles into the case that may emerge from the telephonic transcripts of the official and conduits.

Former Railway Ministers were not on the same track as incumbent Sadananda Gowda today, calling the Rail Budget "pro-rich" and a "Modi gadget" which has nothing new to offer.

The rancour in Punjab between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party peaked today with the Congress dubbing Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal "Hitler".

In the build-up to the October 17 Congress president election, a new name emerged today. Former Union Minister Pawan Bansal became the second leader to collect nomination forms after Shashi Tharoor, but they might be for someone else.

Amid suspense over who could take on Shashi Tharoor in Congress president polls, party central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry said AICC treasurer Pawan Bansal has got nomination forms collected, adding that it may be for someone else.

BJP's Kirron Kher has won from Chandigarh with 46,970 votes. Her next closest contestant was Pawan Kumar Bansal of the Congress who bagged 1,84,218 votes.

Fifty nine seats in seven states are voting today in the final round of the mammoth national election that began last month. The states which are polling today are Punjab (13), Uttar Pradesh (13), West Bengal (9), Bihar (8), Madhya Pradesh (8), Himachal Pradesh (4), Jharkhand (3) and Chandigarh (1).

The candidature of Kirron Kher from Chandigarh has caused a rift within the BJP ranks in Punjab, sources told NDTV. Kirron Kher had wrested the Chandigarh seat in 2014 from the Congress's Pawan Bansal, who won it three consecutive times. But her nomination this time was announced at the last minute, over-riding the objections of the Chandigarh BJP ...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached cash worth Rs 89.68 lakh in a money laundering case involving the nephew of Congress leader and former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal.

A day before the Lok Sabha election's fifth phase of voting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold rallies in UP and Madhya Pradesh. The prime minister will be in Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi and Sagar.

The Congress on Tuesday night declared 20 more Lok Sabha candidates retaining some of its sitting lawmakers in Punjab including Sunil Jakhar from Gurdaspur, Gurjit Singh Aujla from Amritsar, Ravneet Singh Bittu from Ludhiana and Santokh Singh Chaudhary from Jalandhar.

After introducing loyalty affidavits for ticket seekers in Punjab, the Congress has made it mandatory for the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation polls. The party has asked all ticket seekers to submit a public declaration form on stamp paper duly attested by notary.

A Delhi court has chided the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for "negligence" in delaying submission of two CDs containing purported telephonic conversations intercepted during its probe in a cash-for-post railway bribery case, allegedly involving former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla and others.

Former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who was summoned as a witness in the Rs 10 crore cash-for-post railway bribery case, today sought exemption from personal appearance on health grounds before a special court.

CBI sources said the enquiries will look into alleged irregularities in the extension of credit facilities by UCO Bank and Bank of Maharashtra in the borrowers account facilitated by Pawan Bansal of Altius Finserve, an accused in the Syndicate Bank bribery scandal, and his associates.

Chairman & Managing Director of Syndicate Bank SK Jain and seven others were on Sunday remanded in CBI custody for four days as the agency plans to probe various other angles into the case that may emerge from the telephonic transcripts of the official and conduits.

Former Railway Ministers were not on the same track as incumbent Sadananda Gowda today, calling the Rail Budget "pro-rich" and a "Modi gadget" which has nothing new to offer.