Politics

The akhara's chief seers and members of the executive body met here on Sunday and decided to meet the prime minister this week over its demand for "important" posts in the trust's management, its counsel.

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi had demanded that the Babri mosque be constructed again after the verdict.

In a classic parody of missing persons report, posters screaming 'Lapata' or 'Missing' written in bright shades of red, along with a smiling photo of Gambhir were found pinned to the bark of trees in central Delhi.

Construction work was reportedly going on at the BJP headquarters on November 15 and dozens of labourers were engaged in moving around iron bars and other material as mounds of soil and a wide trench lay uncovered.

Shah said the Union Tribal Affairs Ministry came into existence when BJP's Atal Bihar Vajpayee was the PM and tribals are the biggest beneficiaries of the Modi government's welfare schemes.

Pawar has convened a meeting of the NCP's core committee in Pune on Sunday, which makes it difficult for him to reach Delhi in time, party sources said on Saturday.

The Congress party had carried out an aggressive campaign alleging corruption in the multi-billion-dollar deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter aircraft from France before the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

Union minister Debashree Chaudhuri, who has been asked by PM Modi to visit the areas impacted by the cyclone in West Bengal, was on her way to Gosaba to assess the extent of damages caused by 'Bulbul'.

Prasad, who is in Ranchi serving sentences in fodder scam cases, condoled Singh's death on his official Twitter handle operated by his office in consultation with the family.

Last month, Lakshman also embarrassed his elder brother Digvijaya Singh by sitting on a protest outside Digvijaya’s bungalow, demanding that his constituency Chachaura be elevated to a district.

The Sharad Pawar-led NCP has also named five of its members who will be part of a joint committee to be formed with the Congress for deciding the CMP before a possible alliance with the Shiv Sena.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the disqualification of 17 Congress-JD(S) MLAs by the then Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar but allowed them to contest the December five bypolls in the state.

The Shiv Sena had sought a direction from the apex court to quash the Governor's decision of not giving it the opportunity to prove majority on the floor of the House.

In signs of continuing weakness in the economy, India's factory output shrank to the lowest level in eight years as all three broad-based sectors of capital goods production, consumer durables, and infrastructure and construction goods contracted.

Since Friday evening, the new Congress MLAs are holed up at the resort on Delhi Road near here while party leaders discuss whether to support the Shiv Sena claim to power in Maharashtra.

Digvijaya Singh has now been nominated to the parliamentary standing committee on urban development by the chairman of the Upper House.