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The court, however, refused to stay the impugned notification on the disqualification and listed the matter for hearing on Monday.

Modi returned to India after attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, ahead of Republic Day when he will host leaders of ASEAN countries.

With the new post, 27-year-old Thackeray junior, who already heads Yuva Sena, will now be a part of the Shiv Sena's core team.

In Rajasthan, Congress is trying to hit BJP government over their 'failure to provide adequate jobs' for youths and on the farm loan waiver issue.

The online video duel with dripping sarcasm began with Congress posting a tweet titled 'recipe for a BJP star campaigner,' targeting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

If elections are held in Delhi, all 20 disqualified AAP MLAs will fight from their constituencies. AAP will not change candidates, revealed a source.

The offer of resignation came as the CPM saw a rift between two factions — one headed by Sitaram Yechury which favoured an alliance with the Congress for 2019 elections and the other led by Prakash Karat.

Members of Congress and National Conference stormed the well of the house and questioned Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s continued silence on the incident. The parties also accused the state government of trying to cover up the episode.

In the book, Sheila Dikshit also touches upon the difficulty of running the Delhi government, which has to take permission from the Centre every time it needs land or needs to deal with the police force — an issue repeatedly raised by the current AAP gove...

Party insiders claim that several leaders are of the view that Congress has worked hard this time and, in order to cash in on the atmosphere in party’s favour, the party should name the CM candidate to sharpen the poll campaign.

Working President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, Dinesh Gundu Rao, also indicated that party MLAs facing anti-incumbency in their constituencies, may not get tickets in polls, due in May.

One of the earlier cases of disqualified being sought on account of holding a profit of case was that of Jaswant Singh who was a sitting member of Rajya Sabha, and was also appointed as Special Envoy of the Government of India on 12th June, 1998.

With 20 seats vacant, Delhi will now head to a bypoll sometime in 2018. This will be a mini Assembly election of sorts and will be seen as a litmus test of the Kejriwal government.

Arvind Kejriwal’s decision to appoint the Aam Aadmi Party MLAs as Parliamentary Secretaries attracting a lot of question-- on propriety, legality and political vendetta.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah told party workers at a strategy meeting of party office-bearers, “There is no election in any other state at the time that Karnataka goes to polls. So BJP will bring in RSS workers from different parts of the country and dump...

The two giants of Tamil cinema remained ambiguous when asked if their friendship from filmy heydays would carry forward into the political arena.