Uttarakhand President Rule

In a shot in the arm for the BJP ahead of the Uttarakhand Assembly polls, state's women Congress president and former Nainital MLA Sarita Arya on Monday joined the ruling party and has been expelled from the Congress.

BJP president J P Nadda today said West Bengal has become synonymous with corruption, bloodshed and anarchy under the Trinamool Congress rule, prompting a sharp reaction from the state's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

A group of judges met Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra today, upset about what they believe is the government's attempt to alter the seniority of Justice KM Joseph - whose elevation to the Supreme Court has been cleared after much back-and-forth in the past eight months. The chief justice reportedly promised the judges, including three from the S...

The elevation of Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice KM Joseph as a Supreme Court judge has been cleared by the centre, which had objected to the move and sent back his file to a panel of senior judges.

The Supreme Court collegium, or a group of five most-senior judges, met today to take a call on Justice KM Joseph's elevation to the top court that was rejected by the government in April. This is the collegium's second meeting to firm up its response to the centre's decision that has set up a face-off between the judiciary and the executive and ha...

Just hours before the Supreme Court's five most-senior judges sat down to discuss Justice KM Joseph's elevation, the government insisted that its decision to stop the Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice's appointment did not have anything to do with his 2016 verdict cancelling President's rule in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand Chief Justice KM Joseph, who set aside President's rule in the hill state in 2016, and senior lawyer Indu Malhotra have been recommended for appointment as Supreme Court judges.

Assembly elections for the 70 seats in Uttarakhand will be held on February 15, the Election Commission has announced today. The results of the primarily two-sided contest between the ruling Congress and the BJP, will be announced on March 11. In the 2012 assembly elections, the Congress had defeated the BJP in a close call to return to power by wi...

BJP President Amit Shah today appointed Union ministers JP Nadda and Dharmendra Pradhan as party incharge for the Assembly polls in Uttarakhand where it is striving to return to power by defeating ruling Congress.

After Uttarakhand, the Supreme Court today restored Arunachal Pradesh to the Congress in the second legal victory for the party that has suffered a string of electoral defeats.

Claiming that executive-judiciary relationship has been in "tatters as never before", the Congress today accused government of hitting back at the judiciary by "delaying" appointment of judges for striking down a law on judges appointments.

BJP president Amit Shah today alleged that scams to the tune of Rs 12 lakh crore took place during the 10 year rule of the UPA government.

Ahead of BJP president Amit Shah's visit to Haridwar tomorrow, ruling Congress party in Uttarakhand today asked him to apologise to the people for "toppling" a democratically-elected government in the state and meting out a "stepmotherly treatment" to it by curtailing its budget.

"Sometimes even an ant can trouble an elephant," Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat said today, targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah, hours after appearing before the CBI in the sting CD case involving him.

President's Rule was lifted from Uttarakhand and the Congress government was restored late on Wednesday evening, after the Centre acknowledged that Harish Rawat had won a trust vote held yesterday. "Let us forget the past and start with a new chapter," Mr Rawat told reporters.

In a shot in the arm for the BJP ahead of the Uttarakhand Assembly polls, state's women Congress president and former Nainital MLA Sarita Arya on Monday joined the ruling party and has been expelled from the Congress.

BJP president J P Nadda today said West Bengal has become synonymous with corruption, bloodshed and anarchy under the Trinamool Congress rule, prompting a sharp reaction from the state's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

A group of judges met Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra today, upset about what they believe is the government's attempt to alter the seniority of Justice KM Joseph - whose elevation to the Supreme Court has been cleared after much back-and-forth in the past eight months. The chief justice reportedly promised the judges, including three from the S...

The elevation of Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice KM Joseph as a Supreme Court judge has been cleared by the centre, which had objected to the move and sent back his file to a panel of senior judges.

The Supreme Court collegium, or a group of five most-senior judges, met today to take a call on Justice KM Joseph's elevation to the top court that was rejected by the government in April. This is the collegium's second meeting to firm up its response to the centre's decision that has set up a face-off between the judiciary and the executive and ha...

Just hours before the Supreme Court's five most-senior judges sat down to discuss Justice KM Joseph's elevation, the government insisted that its decision to stop the Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice's appointment did not have anything to do with his 2016 verdict cancelling President's rule in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand Chief Justice KM Joseph, who set aside President's rule in the hill state in 2016, and senior lawyer Indu Malhotra have been recommended for appointment as Supreme Court judges.

Assembly elections for the 70 seats in Uttarakhand will be held on February 15, the Election Commission has announced today. The results of the primarily two-sided contest between the ruling Congress and the BJP, will be announced on March 11. In the 2012 assembly elections, the Congress had defeated the BJP in a close call to return to power by wi...

BJP President Amit Shah today appointed Union ministers JP Nadda and Dharmendra Pradhan as party incharge for the Assembly polls in Uttarakhand where it is striving to return to power by defeating ruling Congress.

After Uttarakhand, the Supreme Court today restored Arunachal Pradesh to the Congress in the second legal victory for the party that has suffered a string of electoral defeats.

Claiming that executive-judiciary relationship has been in "tatters as never before", the Congress today accused government of hitting back at the judiciary by "delaying" appointment of judges for striking down a law on judges appointments.

BJP president Amit Shah today alleged that scams to the tune of Rs 12 lakh crore took place during the 10 year rule of the UPA government.

Ahead of BJP president Amit Shah's visit to Haridwar tomorrow, ruling Congress party in Uttarakhand today asked him to apologise to the people for "toppling" a democratically-elected government in the state and meting out a "stepmotherly treatment" to it by curtailing its budget.

"Sometimes even an ant can trouble an elephant," Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat said today, targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah, hours after appearing before the CBI in the sting CD case involving him.

President's Rule was lifted from Uttarakhand and the Congress government was restored late on Wednesday evening, after the Centre acknowledged that Harish Rawat had won a trust vote held yesterday. "Let us forget the past and start with a new chapter," Mr Rawat told reporters.