Politics

Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Vijay Shah's cabinet colleague and the Minister for Higher Education Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya had earlier proposed the idea of abolishing words, like, 'Yes, Sir' and 'Good Morning' from schools and replacing them with...

KJ Alphons, who is Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Tourism, was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in a bypoll earlier this month.

A video had surfaced last week purportedly showing RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav threatening to disrupt the wedding of the Bihar Deputy chief minister's son.

Rahul once again took to Twitter and shared a news article, expounding how the production of Nano car, at the Sanand plant, had reduced to an average of two cars per day.

This time, they are slugging it out in the Supreme Court over the prerogative to set up a committee, which has to probe the propriety of spending by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government on advertisements.

On the flip side, what concerns the Congress is that Modi is yet to hit the campaign trail in the state; there are nagging worries if Congress has peaked a tad too early.

Constitutional expert and former Lok Sabha secretary general, Dr Subhash Kashyap, said that such a bill was only political parties playing to the gallery as the courts have always been against raising the 50 per cent ceiling on reservation.

Nitin Patel said that the PAAS agitation over the last two years was to seek inclusion of Patidars in the OBC list, however, the current proposal by the Congress does not meet that demand.

Twenty-four districts of Uttar Pradesh with 1.09 crore voters would elect 4,325 candidates for various positions in the local bodies polls. The mayors of five corporations including Agra would also be elected.

After joining the BJP, Ketan Patel criticised one of Hardik Patel's close aides, Dinesh Bambhaniya, blaming him for the widespread violence after the August 2015 PAAS rally in Ahmedabad, which led to loss of several lives and damage to properties.

KK Mishra in June 2014 had alleged that 19 candidates from the village of MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s wife Sadhna Singh in Maharashtra were recruited by the state transport department following directives from the CM House.

The EC, in its order issued on Friday, said the group led by Nitish Kumar "has demonstrated overwhelming majority support" in the legislature wing as well as the majority in the national council of the party.

Devnath, who was UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s “Guru-Bhai” or co-devotee at the Nath Akhara, has claimed that he deserves a ticket from the Rapar seat by virtue of being a “loyal and committed worker” of the BJP.

Shankarsinh Vaghela was speaking during a session at Agenda Gujarat, an ETV Gujarati event, organized ahead of state assembly polls.

Seeing the rise of young leaders, willing to take on the mighty state government for their communities, has led Adivasis in Gujarat to realise that their community lacks a single galvanizing face.

The leader of the 2015 Patel agitation for reservation said that it was a conspiracy by people trying to defame him. "Why is BJP interfering in my personal life," Patel asked, adding that "it amounted to invading somebody's privacy".