Politics

A party leader in Chennai said the embarrassment could have been avoided had she taken the district party leadership into confidence about her visit.

This would be the second such Bengaluru bandh called by Kannada organisations against the Centre’s alleged inaction on the Mahadayi river dispute between Karnataka and Goa.

Sanjay Raut, leader of another BJP ally and NDA member Shiv Sena, said that the budget presented by Jaitley was tailored for elections, and was an eye-wash as far as farmers were concerned.

Speaking to CNN-News18, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government is only providing slogans of relief to the people while the Union Budget 2018 will benefit corporates and international finance.

Perceived as a sign of mellowing down ahead of his political plunge on February 21, Haasan asked if he could despise his daughter as she was devout.

It’s a close contest between the BJP and the Congress in Rajasthan’s Alwar Lok Sabha by-elections with both the parties taking leads alternately.

The battle for Ajmer is particularly a prestige battle for Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (RPCC) chief Sachin Pilot, who represented Ajmer in the Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014.

Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said his office had tried to contact the L-G’s office on January 4, but their calls went unanswered. Then, his office sent a letter January 10, but that too did not yield any response.

The Gandhi scion is trying to drive home the point that the ideology of the Sangh, of which BJP is an off shoot, offers no space to women. The Congress has also calculated well that women have outnumbered men, making up for 50.4 per cent of the registered...

Rahul's appeal assumed significance as former cabinet minister A L Hek had joined the BJP while five others including veteran leader and former deputy chief minister Rowell Lyngdoh had switched over to the National People's Party.

According to a report by the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), Rajendrasinh Ranjitsinh Chavda (BJP) from Himatnagar has exceeded the expense limit by 121%, whereas Dindor Kuberbhai Manusukhbhai (BJP) from Santrampur constituency in has exceeded the...

Yashwant Sinha said his 'Rashtra Manch', a political action group, would start a movement against the policies of the Central government.

BJP spokesperson Ashwathnarayan said there was no need for BJP to enter into an understanding with anybody, including AIMIM, as it was confident of getting an absolute majority in the coming assembly polls and form the government on its own.

The campaigning for the Ajmer, Alwar and Uluberia Lok Sabha seats and the Noapara and Mandalgarh assembly seats came to an end on Saturday and polling is set to open on Monday morning. Polls in these crucial seats were necessitated after the sitting MPs a...

A fraud case in a foreign country against Binoy Kodiyeri is a monumental embarrassment for Kodiyeri Balakrishnan and the party which fashions itself the ‘voice of the proletariat’.

According to the opposition, ‘Jilebi’ shows Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s alleged bias against the three dominant upper castes in the state — Vokkaligas, Lingayats and Brahmins.