Politics

Maran moved the Supreme Court challenging the Madras HC order that cancelled his anticipatory bail, giving three days time to the DMK leader to surrender.

As Congress stalled the GST Bill in Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday hit out at Sonia and Rahul Gandhi saying they had taken the defeat in 2014 elections badly and were creating obstacles in the path of national growth.

Soon after the much-awaited bill was introduced, Rajya Sabha was adjourned as Congress MPs created pandemonium in the House.

A Delhi BJP delegation on Monday met President Pranab Mukherjee and requested him to rein in the Arvind Kejriwal-led dispensation which it said has created a "constitutional crisis".

Chief Minister Harish Rawat has asked the youth wing of the Congress to take unique welfare measures initiated by the state government to the masses.

Hitting out at Modi, Nitish said, PM "now called Bihar 'Bimaru' and residents ill-fated", and that by doing this, he had proved his pre-conceived notion.

While targeting Nitish, Modi had said, "There seems to be some problem in his DNA because the DNA of democracy is not like that."

Nitish tweeted, "Finally we have a government that could be truly called a "Union Twitter Government" that listens, acts, and responds only on Twitter."

There has been a war of words between Modi and Nitish Kumar on DNA remark and with both sides trading charges the stage is set for a bitter and personal battle for Bihar Assembly.

The whip is to ensure that the government does not succeed in getting measures passed taking advantage of the absence of opposition members, sources said.

Thirty MPs of the BJP-led NDA have written to the Rajya Sabha Chairman seeking action against those who are disrupting House proceedings.

BJP said Kumar's letter is a perfect illustration of "how greed for power compels an individual to do anything, even trample over the history of a wonderful state like Bihar".

The Delhi government said that it was spending only Rs 8 crore per month on advertisements related to its policies.

Swaraj managed to speak a few sentences in the Rajya Sabha amid slogan-shouting by Congress members seeking fixing of accountability in the Lalitgate and Vyapam scam.

"Personally, I am against the death penalty. Because spending time in prison... being jailed, is in itself a big punishment," Chandy said.