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News highlights: 5 Congress leaders join AAP ahead of Rajinder Nagar bypolls

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Last Updated 28 May 2022, 17:30 IST
16:5628 May 2022

5 Congress leaders join AAP ahead of Rajinder Nagar bypolls

Ahead of the by-election to Rajinder Nagar assembly seat in Delhi, five Congress leaders joined the Aam Aadmi Party here on Saturday.

Sandeep Tanwar, who had contested the assembly polls in 2015 and 2020 from Delhi Cantonment seat on the Congress ticket, was inducted into the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the presence of its senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and party candidate for the Rajinder Nagar by-polls Durgesh Pathak.

Former Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee member Rajkumar Sharma, Youth Congress Committee office bearers of Karolbagh district Suryansh Tanwar and Rajneesh Tanwar as well as Dinesh Nirman are the four other leaders who were inducted into the AAP, the party said.

16:3228 May 2022
16:1328 May 2022

Police: 31 dead in church fair stampede in southern Nigeria

A stampede Saturday at a church charity sale in southern Nigeria left 31 people dead, police said, a shocking development at an event that organisers said aimed to "offer hope" to the needy.

The stampede at the programme organised by the Kings Assembly pentecostal church in Rivers state involved many people who were seeking assistance, according to Grace Iringe-Koko, a police spokesperson in the state.

14:5928 May 2022

BJP MLA threatens to stage demo over 'delay' in KPSC exam results

Criticising the alleged delay in announcing date for evaluation of the civil service exam conducted by the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) last year, a senior BJP MLA has warned that he would hold protest outside the commission’s main gate here on May 31.

14:4128 May 2022
(Published 28 May 2022, 02:21 IST)

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