Politics

Over 60 per cent of the 1.41 crore voters on Wednesday exercised their franchise in the seventh and last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in 40 seats, bringing down the curtain on a gruelling two-month-long process.

What helped Congress dislodge the first NDA government in 2004 was the presence of strong regional power centres of the party, across the country.

The 57-odd years that Ram Manohar Lohia lived in this world, every move he made was aimed at one grand outcome: to unshackle the masses from the caste system and free up their creativity. Ironic then that his followers in Uttar Pradesh have been betting t...

The Election Commission (EC) has prohibited exit polls for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections till 5.30 p.m. on March 9 following the death of the Samajwadi Party candidate for the Alapur seat, in the wake of which polling, originally scheduled for Febr...

Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik has written to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav asking reasons for retaining rape accused Gayatri Prajapati in his Cabinet, sources in the Raj Bhavan told CNN-News18 on Sunday.

The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday released its second list comprising 89 candidates for the upcoming MCD polls.

The Election Commission (EC) on Friday ordered an FIR against office-bearers of the BJP's Manipur unit and certain newspapers for publishing advertisements without its approval.

Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu on Friday hit out at the Pinarayi Vijayan government in Kerala, saying "state-sponsored terror and barbarism" have been let loose in the CPI(M)-ruled state.

Former Tamil Nadu assembly Speaker P.H. Pandian on Thursday alleged that J. Jayalalithaa was admitted to Apollo Hospitals on September 22, 2016, after the then Chief Minister was pushed down by someone at her Poes Garden residence here.

Taking a jibe at BSP supremo Mayawati, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said her 'elephants' (the party's poll symbol) feed on currency notes and not leaves.

In BJP's bastion of Gorakhpur, dominated by hardliner Hindutva politician Mahant Adityanath, there is a place called Halsiganj nicknamed as 'Border'. This because Halsiganj has come to be seen as a virtual divide between the majority-minority demographic...

Sensing defeat, the SP and the BSP have launched a new game plan for a fractured mandate in Uttar Pradesh so that they can have bargaining power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.

“For 40 years, Amethi has only been losing its maryada but in 2017, the original garima of the constituency will return,” echoed the voice of an elderly BJP leader in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh.

Against the backdrop of some politicians allegedly making statements invoking religious sentiments, the Election Commission on Saturday dubbed it as an unhealthy trend and asked them to desist from such remarks.

The high-decibel campaign for the fifth phase of the crucial Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, which had touched a new low by a free flow of scornful words like "donkey, Kasab and kabootar", came to a close on Saturday evening.

The Punjab government has locked itself into a position that is against the construction of the canal saying it does not have enough water to share with Haryana.