Politics

Akhilesh Yadav, a former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, has donated Rs 1 crore from his Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) fund for procurement of COVID-19 testing kits and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for doctors and other...

Election to fill up 55 seats in the Upper House of Parliament was to be held on March 26, but 37 candidates have already been elected without a contest.

Akhilesh Yadav said all pre-scheduled programmes of the Samajwadi Party have been postponed till April 22 and urged workers to use phones and digital means to communicate with one another.

The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government is likely to file a petition against the controversial legislation in the apex court on Monday.

Speculation is rife that actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth will announce an April date for his party’s launch.

Maihar MLA Narayan Tripathi had met Nath on March 5, and he had also gone against the BJP line and voted for a Congress-backed bill in the state Assembly in July last year.

The senior Congress leader said people of the state would give a befitting reply to whoever tries to disrespect the voter's mandate.

In an open letter, the UK-based woman appealed that if she becomes the chief minister, Bihar will achieve the status of the most developed state in India by the year 2025.

Nirmala Sitharaman blamed Chidambaram for the crisis at Global Trust Bank in July 2004 and the problems at IDBI, which had to merge with on-the-verge of collapsing United Western Bank in 2006.

Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh, who reached Bhopal on Friday after spending the last few days in the national capital, said he returned to the state on the directive of CM Kamal Nath.

In an article, the former prime minister said the 'fire of social tensions' threatens to char the soul of the nation and 'can only be extinguished by the same people that lit it'.

Hitendra Nath Goswami revoked the suspension order stating that he had suspended the MLAs as he wants to conduct the proceedings in a disciplined and efficient manner.

Both the BJP MLAs had previously ditched their own party and voted in favour of Kamal Nath's government during a trust vote in the monsoon session of MP assembly.

The amount has been given to the Delhi Solidarity and Relief Committee, a group formed by the party to work towards relief and rehabilitation in riot-affected areas.

He said that all sections of society are demanding reservations in education-jobs since past six years which were supported by the BJP-Hindutva groups.

The Congress MPs held placards reading 'Save Our India', 'Prime Minister Must Answer' and 'Shah Must Resign'.