Politics

Former Prime Minister Vajpayee is currently admitted to AIIMS after contracting urinary tract infection.

Dr Kafeel Khan’s mother Nuzhat Parveen has demanded police protection for her family after her younger son Kashif Jameel was shot at by unknown miscreants on Sunday night in Gorakhpur

Vats (69), who hails from Hisar, was recently elected to the Upper House of Parliament. He had served as the director and commandant of the prestigious AFMC, Pune.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed that the Centre had filed 14 cases of corruption against his ministers but had failed to convict or arrest even a single one.

The Karnataka Assembly election was held on May 12 but in Jayanagar, the poll was countermanded following the death of BJP candidate B N Vijayakumar, who was holding the seat.

In this no-holds-barred exclusive interview, his first since becoming the deputy CM of the state, Kavinder Gupta talks about a range of issues — from rehabilitating Kashmiri youth who have joined militancy to talks with Hurriyat and also Article 370.

TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee said former president Pranab Mukherjee has done injustice to his “political stature” by addressing the RSS event in Nagpur.

Over the last week, several Congress leaders, including Sonia Gandhi’s close aide Ahmed Patel and Mukherjee's daughter Sharmistha, had expressed their disdain at the former President for accepting the RSS invite.

"There is no question of the TDP aligning with the Congress but if that happens, I am ready to hang myself," KE Krishna Murthy told a press conference in his hometown Kurnool.

Subsequent defeats in crucial Lok Sabha bypolls, starting with Gorakhpur and Phulpur in March and in Kairana a few days ago, has set alarm bells ringing within the BJP in Uttar Pradesh.

The "anti-Modi front" has over two dozen aspirants for the prime ministerial post but they will not be able to provide stability, he claimed.

Rajinikanth, who two days ago visited the injured in the Tuticorin violence, had said anti-social elements infiltrated the protest and also voiced his concern over too many agitations, drawing flak from DMK, Congress and others.

The division of portfolios has come after several days of bargaining between the two alliance partners that delayed the expansion of Cabinet in Karnataka.

He also threatened to drag the Election Commission to court over the Palghar bypoll result and sought suspension of election officers over the "sudden increase" in voting percentage there.

The BJP high command decided to appoint Kerala unit chief Kummanam Rajashekharan as Mizoram governor a day before Chengannur polling. The party retired its general in the middle of war, and voters responded in kind.

Shahkot is one of the 117 Assembly seats in Punjab. Full list of contesting candidates and live results of the 2018 Shahkot by-election.