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Kamal Haasan said the Centre and various political parties were diverting the attention of the people from the main issue of forming the CMB.

Ruckus prevailed in both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday as well, as opposition parties and those from Tamil Nadu went to the Well and continued with their protests, forcing their adjournment without transacting any substantial business.

Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday decided to accord five seers the status of Ministers of State (MoS) and ended up plunging into an outrage by opposition parties, who called the move a “political gimmick” ahead of the state Assembly elections.

There are 13 seats up for grabs as the term of some of the big big names like SP National president Akhilesh Yadav, SP Spokesperon Rajendra Chaudhary and SP State President Naresh Uttam come to an end.

The BJP leader was stopped by the police from entering the Asansol-Raniganj area last week. A scuffle had ensued between BJP supporters and the police when he tried to enter Asansol, his Lok Sabha constituency.

Details of NIA chargesheet exclusively accessed by CNN-News18 claims that the Tamar MLA was murdered by Maoists at the behest of his political rival, former Jharkhand minister Gopal Krishna Patar, alias Raja Peter.

A quick look at Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's Twitter timeline will give a glimpse of his strategy this election: to attack and to rebut.

Akhilesh Yadav deleted his tweet after BSP supremo Mayawati said in a press conference that he should not have trusted Raja Bhaiyya to help them. “Akhilesh Yadav made a mistake in relying on Raja Bhaiyya,” she had said.

Varuna may prove to be an exciting battle if the Congress fields Siddaramaiah’s son Yatheendra and the BJP fields Yeddyurappa’s son Vijayendra from this constituency in upcoming Assembly elections.

On February 16, delivering its judgment, the Supreme Court set a deadline of six weeks for the Centre to frame a scheme for the implementation of the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) given in February 2007.

The UP state government on Wednesday issued orders to change the name of BR Ambedkar to Bhimrao ‘Ramji’ Ambedkar in all government documents and records after a resolution was passed in the state Assembly.

Chandrababu Naidu has timed his visit when the Lok Sabha next meets on April 2. The decision to personally go to Delhi was taken after emergency state all-party meeting.

HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday that those guilty of leaking the CBSE examination papers would not go scot-free.

Originally a daily wage labourer, Naurti was elected as the Gram Sarpanch in 2010 after a campaign that cost just Rs 2,200. However, with the Rajasthan government mandating Class 8 certificates for candidates from now, it won’t be smooth sailing as before...

Going completely off the topic, BJP spokesperson Narendra Taneja said, “When Sridevi died recently, northern India probably shed more tears than southern India. Was the North looking at the fact that she came from the South?”

The grand old party was left fuming after BSP’s lone MLA voted in favour of BJP’s Saroj Pandey, while two of its MLAs, led by former CM Ajit Jogi’s son Amit Jogi, abstained from voting.