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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal took a dig at the Centre on Sunday after laying the foundation stone for four new school buildings in the national capital's Kirari, Rohini and claimed that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been trying to poach him and other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders but reassured the public that they will not back down.

CM Kejriwal's comments come at a time he has been asked to join the Delhi Police probe into the said allegations of BJP attempted to poach AAP MLAs. He is also facing summons from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an excise policy linked money laundering case.

The Supreme Court today dismissed former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's petition challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate on money laundering charges.

"We are informed that petitioner has already preferred a writ petition before the Jharkhand High Court, which is still pending. It will also be open to him to ask for expeditious listing and disposal of the case," the Supreme Court said.

Soren had earlier approached the high court challenging the summons issued by the ED.

Coming as a relief to taxpayers grappling with outstanding tax demands, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a resolution scheme for disputed direct tax demand dating back to even 1962.

In line with the Government’s vision to improve ease of living and ease of doing business, and to provide a relief to a large number of petty, non-verified, non-reconciled or disputed direct tax demands, many of them dating as far back as the year 1962, Sitharaman proposed to withdraw such outstanding direct tax demands up to Rs 25,000 pertaining to the period up to financial year 2009-10 and up to Rs 10,000 for financial years 2010-11 to 2014-15.

Hemant Soren was arrested in a land scam by Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday, becoming the first sitting chief minister of Jharkhand to be taken into custody in a corruption case.

Hours before he was whisked away by ED officials, Hemant handed over his resignation to governor CP Radhakrishnan around 8.30pm, even as the governing Jharkhand Mukti Morcha announced the name of his close aide and transport minister Champai Soren as the next CM.

The arrest was a finale of the the cat-and-mouse game played by Hemant with the central agency for the last two days over his questioning in the alleged money laundering in a land scam that involved transfer and settlement of land parcels by forging records and documents.

"Politicians should be thick-skinned," the Supreme Court on Tuesday said while hearing a plea of a West Bengal-based political commentator seeking protection from arrest in multiple FIRs lodged against him for his alleged objectionable remarks agains...

A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Sanjay Karol observed that even judges need to let go of the comments made against them in letters and interviews these days. "Politicians should be thick-skinned. We judges also need to be cautious in view of lette...