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106 days later, P Chidambaram gets bail; will attend parliament tomorrow, says son Karti

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Congress leader Karti Chidambaram has said that his father P Chidambaram, who has been granted bail by the Supreme Court in the INX Media money laundering case, will be seen in the parliament tomorrow. The former Finance Minister is expected to walk out of jail by evening today.

“I am very happy that he is going to be back home, I am relieved. He will also be attending the parliament tomorrow,” Karti told reporters.

Chidambaram, who stayed in Delhi’s Tihar Jail for over three months, however, isn’t allowed to travel abroad without permission, the bench headed by Justice R Banumathi said. The Congress leader also cannot make any public statements, or give any interviews to the media and has to be present whenever he is called for questioning, the court said.

Senior lawyers Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi said in the court that there was neither any evidence linking Chidambaram with the alleged offence nor any material to show he had influenced witnesses or tampered with any evidence.

The Congress tweeted: “Truth finally prevails. #SatyamevaJayate.”

“But justice delayed is justice denied. This should have been granted much earlier. Nothing is different from three months ago,” tweeted Congress’ Shashi Tharoor.

BJP leader and Union minister Nitin Gadkari, however, told reporters that “there is evidence against him”. Dismissing charges of political vendetta, he told a news agency, “We have never been vindictive. On the other hand when Chidambaram ji was the Home Minister, he filed false cases against me, he also filed false cases against Modi ji and Amit Shah ji. Later, we all were proved innocent.

His colleague and BJP leader Sambit Patra called it a “classic case” of @INCIndia “celebrating corruption” and quipped that Chidambaram has joined the “OOBC (Out On Bail Club)” of the Congress.”

Karti was quick to retort, “If they have the evidence, they must take it to the court and put it before us and not hide behind the sealed cover tactic.”

The veteran Congress leader was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on August 21 in the INX Media money laundering case and was granted bail by the Supreme Court on October 22.

However, he was immediately arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in the money laundering case on October 16 and has been in judicial custody till November 27.

After the Delhi High Court denied him bail on November 15, the 74-year-old approached the top court where the ED had opposed his bail plea claiming he used the “influential office” of finance minister for “personal gains” and laundered proceeds of crime to conceal “tainted money”.

The ED also claimed that Chidambaram is a “very intelligent and influential man” and there is “sufficient evidence on record” that he has been “indulging in destruction of evidence” and “influencing the witnesses”.

Chidambaram argued that the probe agency cannot “destroy” his reputation by making baseless allegations.

Questioning the High Court’s decision to deny him bail, he had said, “the high court denies me bail saying that releasing me will send a wrong signal, as if I am some Ranga-Billa,” referring to Ranga and Billa, who were hanged for the kidnapping and killing two siblings in Delhi in 1982.

Several Congress leaders, including party chief Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Shashi Tharoor, met with Chidambaram at Tihar where he stayed in a separate cell.

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Dust storm, light rain expected in Delhi-NCR today, heatwave conditions to abate

IMD claimed in a tweet that Thunderstorm dust with light to moderate intensity rain and gusty winds with speed of 30-50 km/hr would occur over and adjoining areas of many places of Delhi, North Delhi, North East Delhi, North west Delhi, West Delhi, Central Delhi, East delhi and NCR( Loni Dehat, Hindon AF station, Ghaziabad, Indrapuram, Chapraula) Sonipat, Rohtak, Kharkhoda (Haryana) Baraut, Bagpat, Meerut, Khekra, Modinagar, Kithor , Garhmukhteshwar, Pilakhua, Hapur ,Gulaoti ,Siyana ,Sikandrabad , Bulandshahr ,  Jahangirabad (UP)

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On Wednesday, a dust storm with light to moderate rain is expected in numerous locations in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). The India Meteorogical Department (IMD) stated the city’s maximum and minimum temperatures are predicted to be in the range of 40 and 25, respectively.

The IMD tweeted an advisory that thunderstorms, dust with light to moderate intensity rain and gusty winds with speed of 30-50 km/hr would occur over and adjoining areas of many places of Delhi, North Delhi, North East Delhi, North West Delhi, West Delhi, Central Delhi, East Delhi and NCR (Loni Dehat, Hindon AF station, Ghaziabad, Indirapuram, Chapraula) Sonipat, Rohtak, Kharkhoda (Haryana), Baraut, Bagpat, Meerut, Khekra, Modinagar, Kithor, Garhmukhteshwar, Pilakhua, Hapur, Gulaoti, Siyana, Sikandrabad, Bulandshahr, Jahangirabad (UP).

For the next two hours, light to moderate intermittent rain is expected over and near Adampur, Hissar, Hansi, and Meham (Haryana).

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On Thursday, May 18, light rain is predicted for in Delhi based on the seven-day prediction for the city. The sky will mainly be cloudy, with the potential of a light  rain or drizzle, according to the weather office.

The air quality will continue to be deteriorated in the city after strong winds with dust swept across the Delhi-NCR on Tuesday. Following this, visibility had reduced to 1000 metres. Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of regional forecasting centre, said the dry atmosphere is one of the reasons for the dust storms.

Following Tuesday’s severe winds and dust storm that blasted across the Delhi-NCR, the city’s air quality had taken an alarming dip.

The monsoons, which are awaited across India, are likely to make landfall in Kerala on June 4. Usually, the monsoon arrives on May 31 or June 1 but the delay will be made up as the phenomenon progresses on its south-west to north-east arc. With extreme temperatures right from a cold sytart to May to dust-laden winds in mid-May, the weather in the country is paying the price for accelerating climate change.

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Security lapse at Navjot Singh Sidhu’s Patiala home, says it will not deter him from raising his voice against Punjab

After his release from jail, he slammed the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for its law and order in the state.

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Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has filed a complaint with the Punjab Police after he spotted a suspicious person wrapped in a grey blanket on his terrace. He alleged a security lapse at his Patiala home. He couldn’t catch him as he fled after his servant raised an alarm.

Taking to Twitter, Sidhu said, Today on the terrace of his residence an unknown suspicious character wrapped in a grey blanket was noticed around 7:00 pm, the moment his servant went out raised the alarm, and called for help, he immediately ran and escaped.

The 59-year-old further said that he has spoken to DGP Punjab Police and has also informed SSP Patiala. He said the security lapse will not deter him from raising his voice for Punjab.

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Punjab Police registered a case in this matter. According to the reports, the Patiala Senior Superintendent of Police Varun Sharma visited his residence after the complaint and is currently investigating the matter. The CCTV footage of the area is also being scanned, reports state.

Cricketer-turned-politician came out of the Patiala Central Jail on April 1 after serving nearly 10 months in a 1988 road rage case. After his release from jail, he slammed the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for its law and order in the state.

He said Democracy is in chains. Punjab is the shield of this country. When dictatorship came in this country, a revolution also came, led by Rahul Gandhi.

Sidhu also slammed the Mann government over the pruning of security of slain singer Sidhu Moosewala and also making it public.

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Air India Delhi-San Francisco flight suffers tech glitch before take-off, returns to stand

The airline has not given any official statement in this matter.

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Air India flight which was en route to San Francisco from Delhi on Monday had to be returned to the stand because of a technical glitch. The San Francisco-bound flight suffered a tech issue before take off.

According to the reports, the aircraft which was carrying over 200 passengers from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) had to be replaced with another aircraft. Later, the passengers were accommodated in another aircraft.

The airline has not given any official statement in this matter.

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Earlier today, another Air India incident occurred where a London-bound flight returned to Delhi’s IGI airport after a mid-air brawl between an unruly passenger and the flight’s cabin crew.

A brawl ensued between a passenger and the crew members shortly after it departed from the airport at around 6:35 am. The onboard ruckus forced the plane to turn around and return to Delhi again where the raucous passenger was deboarded and handed over to the police at the airport.

Air India apologized to the passengers on the affected Delhi-London flight for the delay and inconvenience caused to them due to the incident and assured them that efforts will be made to ensure such incidents do not occur in the future.

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