Arvind Gunasekar

Drop Anurag Thakur, Parvesh Verma As BJP Star Campaigners, Says Poll Body

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Wednesday January 29, 2020

Union Minister Anurag Thakur and BJP leader Parvesh Sahib Singh should be removed from the party's list of star campaigners for next month's Delhi Assembly elections, the Election Commission ordered this afternoon

Anurag Thakur Gets Poll Body Notice Over "Goli Maaro" Slogans At Rally

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Sumana Nandy | Tuesday January 28, 2020

Union Minister Anurag Thakur has been served a notice by the Election Commission, seeking his response by noon on Thursday for urging a crowd at an election rally in Delhi to say "goli maaro" - or shoot down traitors - in a widely-shared video.

"CCTV Video With Cops", Says JNU After Claiming No Footage Of Mob Attack

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Monday January 27, 2020

Responses by Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University to RTI queries seeking CCTV footage of the main gate of the campus from January 5 - the day a mob attack left 34 students and faculty injured - appear to contradict each other

"Goli Maaro" Slogans At Union Minister Anurag Thakur's Election Rally In Delhi

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Sanket Upadhyay, Sukirti Dwivedi, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Monday January 27, 2020

Union Minister Anurag Thakur was caught on camera at an election rally in Delhi on Monday, chanting the first half of a slogan that concludes with a call to shoot traitors

Sedition Case Against JNU Student For Alleged "Separate Northeast" Remark

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Ratnadip Choudhury, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Saturday January 25, 2020

Assam Police has registered a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against Sharjeel Imam, said to be one of the organisers of the anti-citizenship law protest at Shaheen Bagh, after videos of him allegedly calling for the state to be cut off from the rest of India surfaced online. Assam Police told NDTV that Sharjeel Imam, a student ...

Undisclosed Assets Of Hotel Group Worth Rs 1,000 Crore Detected: Tax Body

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Vaibhav Tiwari | Saturday January 25, 2020

The Income Tax department's raids on the properties of a prominent chain of luxury hotels have revealed undisclosed foreign assets worth more than Rs 1,000 crore, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said in a statement today.

Election Body Asks Twitter To Remove BJP's Kapil Mishra's Communal Tweet

Delhi News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Nonika Marwaha | Friday January 24, 2020

The Election Commission today asked Twitter to remove a communal tweet by the BJP's Kapil Mishra, who is contesting the Delhi election. A tweet by Kapil Mishra criticising protests against the citizenship law in Delhi and referring to "mini-Pakistans" in the city is "highly objectionable" and "appeals to communal feelings," the top election body ha...

Ignored Twice, Probe Agency Issues New Summons To AirAsia Top Officials

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Friday January 24, 2020

The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to three senior officials in the AirAsia management in connection with a money laundering case lodged by the CBI in May 2018.

Supreme Court Refuses To Stay Citizenship Act, Centre Has 4 Weeks To Respond

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Arvind Gunasekar; Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Wednesday January 22, 2020

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to put on hold the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), which is at the core of nationwide protests, and gave the Centre four weeks to respond to petitions on the law, making it clear that it would not grant any stay without hearing the government. The court also said a five-judge constitution bench will give an...

Congress MP Karti Chidambaram Quizzed By Enforcement Directorate Over INX Media Case

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Monday January 20, 2020

Congress MP Karti Chidambaram is being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the INX Media scam case that saw his father, former Union Minister P Chidambaram, imprisoned for more than 100 days in Delhi's Tihar Jail last year

Gudiya Rape Case: Delhi Court Holds 2 Guilty, Says Girl Experienced Exceptional Depravity

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Ria Saini | Saturday January 18, 2020

Two men accused of kidnapping and brutally raping a five-year-old girl in Delhi in 2013 have been held guilty by a court in the national capital today.

Nirbhaya Case: Convicts Will Now Hang On Feb 1 At 6 am, Says Delhi Court

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Friday January 17, 2020

Fresh death warrants were issued this evening for the four men convicted of the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi in 2012; the four will now be executed at 6 am on February 1

Nirbhaya Case: President Rejects Nirbhaya Convict's Mercy Plea

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Neeta Sharma, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Friday January 17, 2020

President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected a mercy petition filed by Mukesh Singh - one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case - mere hours after it was forwarded to him by the Home Ministry. The petition was Mukesh Singh's final appeal before his execution

"As If Jama Masjid Is In Pak": Judge Rebukes Cops In Bhim Army Case

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Tuesday January 14, 2020

Hearing the bail request of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad aka "Raavan", arrested for his protest last month against the citizenship law at Jama Masjid, a Delhi court today asserted "it is one's constitutional right to protest" and people were out on streets because "inside parliament, things which should have been said were not said". The jud...

Seize Phones Of WhatsApp Group Members: High Court To Cops On JNU Attack

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Tuesday January 14, 2020

The Delhi High Court has instructed the police to seize mobile phones of the members of two WhatsApp groups allegedly used to coordinate the January 5 mob attack on JNU students and faculty