Anna Hazare Exposing Arvind Kajrwal's Misuse of funds 

in 2012...

There is another twist in the ongoing rift between anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and Aam Aadmi Party National Convener Arvind Kejriwal. A video recording of Anna Hazare in a meeting in December 2012 has emerged before the Delhi polls.

The social activist is seen expressing his disappointment in the video where he says that more than Rs 3 crore that were given in his name during the Ramlila agitation were being misused. The Aam Aadmi Party says it is a part of a campaign to discredit Arvind Kejriwal before the assembly elections

Death of cabinet minster’s wife stuns India political class...

India’s political class was stunned on Friday night after the wife of Shashi Tharoor, a prominent cabinet minister, was found dead in a five-star hotel in New Delhi, just two days after she used Twitter to publicly accuse a Pakistani journalist of “stalking” her husband.

Delhi police have ordered an investigation into the death of Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, 52, who was found dead on her bed in her hotel suite at about 8.30pm local time.

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An aide to Mr Tharoor – who is the minister of human resource development in New Delhi’s Congress-led government and is said to have found her – told local media there was no evidence of foul play or a struggle.

Investigators were treating it as an apparent suicide. However, police said a post-mortem would be conducted and also said they were reviewing CCT footage from the hotel.

Mr Tharoor, a career UN official who rose to under-secretary general and was a serious contender for the top position in 2007, entered Indian politics in 2009, running successfully for parliament on a Congress ticket.

With his extensive international experience and debonair appearance, Mr Tharoor has been considered one of the bright, dynamic new faces that could help rejuvenate the Congress party. He was named India’s junior foreign minister soon his after his maiden election.

He was forced to resign a year later amid allegations of impropriety over his role in a consortium that won the lucrative franchise for an Indian Premier League Cricket team from Cochin – a bid in which his then girlfriend, Ms Pushkar, also had secured a lucrative stake.

Popular among young Indians, Mr Tharoor was subsequently reinducted to the Cabinet in a reshuffle intended to showcase rising political talent.

Mr Tharoor has been an active user of social media, with about 2m Twitter followers. But his freewheeling comments have caused him trouble.

In 2009 – when Congress party ordered an austerity drive among its leaders – Mr Tharoor was embroiled in controversy over a flippant remark about flying economy class. He tweeted that he would fly “in cattle class in solidarity with all our holy cows”.

Twice married, Mr Tharoor married for a third time to Ms Pushkar, a businesswoman previously based in Dubai, in 2010.

A day before Mrs Tharoor’s death, the couple had issued a joint public statement through social media saying they were “distressed by the unseemly controversy that has arisen from some authorised tweets from our Twitter accounts”.

They declared that “we are happily married and intend to stay that way,” and also noted that Mrs Tharoor had been ill and hospitalised this week, and “was seeking to rest”.

The statement was issued after a series of bizarre tweets from the account of Mr Tharoor, who then complained that his account had been hacked. In her own Twitter feed, Mrs Tharoor appeared to accuse a Pakistani journalist of pursuing her husband, an allegation she repeated in conversations with several Indian journalists in the 48 hours before her death.