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ACB officials question DCW chief Swati Maliwal A team of Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) officials on Moday, questioned DCW chief   Swati Maliwal   in connection with a complaint of illegal recruitments in the women's panel. A team comprising five ACB officers reached the office of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) at 11 am to question Maliwal, a senior ACB officer said, adding the questioning is still going on. The ACB had sent a notice last week to Maliwal informing her that she would be questioned on September 19. Also Read:   ACB registers case against DCW chief Swati Maliwal The probe has been taken up by the ACB on a complaint by former DCW chief Barkha Shukla Singh. In her complaint, Singh had claimed that several AAP supporters were given plum posts in the women's panel. Singh, in her complaint, listed names of 85 people who, she claimed, got jobs "without requisite credentials". Earlier, Maliwal had rubbished the allegations, saying the staf...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said ‘jan sabhas’ will be held across the city to seek public opinion on the odd-even scheme, which will be rolled out as and when “people decide”. Kejriwal said, starting today, every Aam Aadmi Party MLA will organise meetings at the constituency level to decide the future course of the road rationing measure, that was enforced from January 1 to 15 in its pilot phase. “We have decided to organise meetings in every constituency to seek suggestion on when odd-even should be brought again and for how long. I have asked the MLAs to make arrangements in this regard.  Read Full Article Over Here :  Business Standard News  

The car rationing formula by the Delhi Government officially ends today as the odd-even plan has completely its 15-day trial period. The Delhi government had said yesterday said that, the decision for the second phase of the experiment is likely to be taken in the review meeting scheduled for Monday.  Read Articles

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today kept up his tirade against the Narendra Modi government and said ’ Achhe din ’ has come only for the Prime Minister and not the aam aadmi who are groaning under unprecedented price rise. On a two-day visit to his Amethi parliamentary constituency, Gandhi, who led the opposition attack against the NDA government in and outside Parliament, said, “There is no achhe din for aam aadmi, achhe din is only for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” “Inflation is at its peak. Nothing has been done for the farmers and the youth,” he said, addressing a roadside meeting at Nigoha village here. The Congress vice-president said that during the Lok Sabha election campaign, Modi had promised to deposit Rs 15 lakh in every person’s account after bringing back the black money stashed away abroad. “Has it been deposited,” he asked on a sarcastic note. Read More News :  National Herald case  |  Paris climate change  |  Budget 2016   |...

Prime Minister  Narendra Modi  defended Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a weekly meeting of the BJP parliamentary party and likened Jaitley to former Bharatiya Janata Party President and stalwart LK Advani who was chargesheeted but later acquitted in the 1990s hawala scam. This was the PM’s first reaction on the latest crisis to hit his government. To MPs, Modi reportedly said Jaitley would come out “with flying colours” in the Delhi cricket body controversy just as Advani had emerged unscathed. But there is a difference. Advani had resigned. “The day allegations were raised against me based on the Jain diaries, that evening itself, sitting in my house in Pandara Road I took the decision to resign (as MP). It was no one else’s decision, it was mine. Soon after I called up (Atal Bihari) Vajapyee to inform him of my decision. He asked me not to resign but I did not listen to anyone,” Advani told interviewers earlier this year. Read More News :  National Herald case...

The Central Bureau of Investigation has raided Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s office. The office has been sealed. No specific reason has been given yet.   Media reports suggest that the raid is connected to a case of criminal misconduct against Delhi CM’s principal secretary Rajender Kumar. Aam Aadmi party have said that the Chief Minister’s office was kept in the dark about the sudden raid. Arvind Kejriwal  has tweeted confirming the development. When Modi cudn’t handle me politically, he resorts to this cowardice Modi is a coward and a psycopath There’s no official comment from CBI yet. The latest development follows a series of confrontation between the AAP and the central government.