
NDA petitions President on Quattrocchi issue
Mounting its offensive on the Bofors issue, NDA on Friday sought President APJ Abdul Kalam's intervention to ensure that Law Minister HR Bhardwaj was dismissed.
They also demanded that the Prime Minister and the UPA Chairperson make a full statement on their role in the "defreezing" of Italian Businessman Otavio Quattrocchi's two British accounts.
A high-level delegation of the alliance including Leader of Opposition LK Advani and Convener George Fernandes met the President and drew his attention to the "gross and scandalous abuse of power and of democratic institutions by the UPA Government and the Congress party in particular to help and Italian fugitive in the Bofors bribery case."
"It is a case of subversion of institutions by sweeping the scandal under the carpet to save the culprits," Advani told reporters here after the 30-minute long meeting with the President.
BJP President Rajnath Singh, senior party leaders leaders Jaswant Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, SS Ahluwalia and Santosh Gangwar besides BK Tripathy (BJD) and SS Dhindsa (SAD) were part of the delegation.

Report on probe against DU V-C Tyagi likely today
- Officials said that an inquiry committee, constituted by the Visitor of Delhi University (DU), the President of India, held its final meeting.

MP assembly nod to anti-conversion bill
- BJP MLAs supported the bill and called it a gift for women on the occasion of Women’s Day

Anti-spam tech halts OTP texts for some
- The technology requires telecoms companies to scrub messages to verify if the text being sent has been approved and it is only being sent to someone who has consented to receive such a message.

On their day, women farmers helm the stir at all sites on Delhi borders
- Throughout the day, women protesters organised marches at the sites while wearing yellow, green scarves

Activists flag concerns over debris dumping on Yamuna floodplains
- Responding to HT on Monday, CPWD denied all allegations that the waste from the Central Vista construction site was being dumped on the floodplains.

After almost 25 years, women deployed aboard Indian warships
- Two women officers each have been assigned duties aboard INS Vikramaditya and INS Shakti.

7 killed in blaze at multi-storeyed building in Kolkata
- The fire had broken out at the 13th floor of the Eastern Railway’s office in the evening.

Best role played by anyone during pandemic that of mothers: Education Minister

'Does 50% reservation limit need a relook?' SC asks states after 29 years
- The apex court framed this as one among the several questions to be decided while considering the constitutional validity of a 2018 Maharashtra law.

Centre will abide by Speakers’ decision: Union minister Prahlad Joshi

Justice delivery system should not be to fulfill personal vendetta: SC

Six labourers killed as school boundary wall collapses in Bihar’s Khagaria
- The tragedy reportedly took place when an excavator was digging a drain near the boundary wall of the school.

Iran rejects allegations linking it to blast outside Israeli embassy
- The Iranian embassy said it "strongly repudiates any unsubstantiated allegations or irresponsible comments in this regard and considers them as steps towards realising the sinister intentions of the enemies of Iran-India relations”.

‘Behave humanely with Rohingyas’, Farooq Abdullah tells Centre
- The Jammu and Kashmir administration during a verification drive on Saturday sent 169 illegal immigrant Rohingyas to a ‘holding centre’ after they were found without valid travel documents.
