Politics

Former JD(S) state president H Vishwanath met Bharatiya Janata Party MP BY Raghavendra and other BJP leaders in the backdrop of resignation by two Congress MLAs.

Opposing the introduction of the Bill, Congress member Shashi Tharoor said the arbitration body should be autonomous and independent of government as several public sector undertaking will be a party to it.

The party's senior state unit leaders discussed the membership campaign, the visit of Amit Shah and preparations for the municipal polls to be held next month at a meeting on Tuesday.

Fifteen candidates — eight from the Congress, two from the BJP and five independents-were elected unopposed. In the Zila Parishad bypolls, the Congress won seven of the nine seats. The BJP could win only one.

The state government had on June 24 directed district adminstration to issue SC certificates to 17 OBCs - Kashyap, Rajbhar, Dhivar, Bind, Kumhar, Kahar, Kewat, Nishad, Bhar, Mallah, Prajapati, Dhimar, Batham, Turha, Godia, Manjhi and Machua.

The BSP chief attacked the move, saying that it would leave the people belonging to these 17 castes neither in the OBC category, nor in the SC.

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate (ACMM) Samar Vishal held Dutt, a legislator from Sadar Bazar constituency here, guilty under section 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt without provocation), 341 (wrongful restraint), 147 (rioting) and section...

The ruling party had on June 12 gagged its spokespersons from airing their views on any issue, either in the media or in social media platforms till further notice when it decided to continue with the dual leadership to steer the party.

Patole stepped down owning responsibility for the party's defeat in the Lok Sabha elections.

In reference to the 2015 Assembly elections where the Aam Aadmi Party had won 67 out of 70 seats, Nadda claimed that the people of Delhi have now started realising what the leaders have actually done.

Senior state Congress leaders M Shashidhar Reddy and Sheik Rahmatullah were inducted into the saffron fold by BJP general secretary P Muralidhar Rao, who claimed that only his party is capable of "fighting the TRS' misrule" in Telangana.

BJP state president and Lok Sabha MP Dilip Ghosh came out in support of the BJYM's decision saying, 'if Muslims can do it, why can't Hindus?'

Thangatamil Selvan lost the Lok Sabha election from Theni to O Pannerrselvam's son, OP Ravindranath Kumar of the AIADMK, who is the only MP from AIADMK.

Parliament LIVE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today replied to motion of thanks on president's speech in Lok Sabha. He is presently addressing the Lower House and laying out government's roadmap for next five. Addressing the House, the prime minister slam...

The SP national general secretary said the 'Dalit samaj' is getting connected with the Samajwadi Party and its chief Akhilesh Yadav in a big way.

Raising concerns over rising incidents of communal hatred in the country, the Congress leader asked the BJP to keep its 'New India' to itself.