Politics

With the Uttar Pradesh government going after the cycle tracks set up during the previous Samajwadi Party regime, former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday highlighted the benefits of cycling.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday alleged that the "distractions", including the latest "imposition" of Hindi in states where the language was not widely spoken, were the "essence" of the three-year rule of the Narendra Modi-led BJP gover...

The Bengal faction of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has backed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s stand on Gorkhaland.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Friday that the opposition parties fielded Meira Kumar as their presidential candidate to divide Dalits to "save their skin".

The nomination of Kumar, however, seems a symbolic gesture by opposition parties at this point as the numbers side with the NDA

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) chief Bimal Gurung resigned from the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration on Friday along with 43 other members, including GJM general secretary Roshan Giri.

For someone who joined the BJP in 1991- when Dr M M Joshi was the national president - Kovind beat everyone, from full timers to high profile cabinet ministers, to emerge the NDA choice in the final lap.

As Darjeeling continues to be in the grip of violence, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) convened an all-party meeting on Tuesday, in which it decided to meet Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju in Gangtok to press their demand of a separate Go...

The BJP on Monday named Dalit leader and Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind as the NDA's candidate for the post of president

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on alleged "massive corruption" in the EDMC and sought to know where the funds released by his government were being spent.

Darjeeling MP and Minister of State SS Ahluwalia on Thursday demanded that the West Bengal government should immediately issue a notification mentioning that Bangla is not compulsory in schools across the hill districts.

Unions ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu are part of a panel formed by BJP chief Amit Shah to hold talks with regional allies on the upcoming presidential elections.

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters have torched a Block Development Office in Bajanbari area and a PWD office in Lebong area of Darjeeling as the Hills remain tense amid an indefinite bandh called by the GJM for a separate Gorkhaland and against the allege...

Top RSS leader Manmohan Vaidya said it is a matter of record that RSS does not support such anti-social elements nor such undemocratic methods of subverting any lawful activity

All government departments in Uttar Pradesh have been directed to open Twitter accounts within a week for effective communication with the people, redressal of their complaints and also to highlight their works.

TMC insiders claimed that Mamata - who is in Darjeeling – got upset when she came to know about the killings.