Politics

Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat said in Delhi that the EC does not work under pressure and listed three reasons for the nearly three-hour delay in giving out the schedule.

Reflecting on farmers’ agitation in Delhi, Singh said that he does not have any magic wand to solve the problems of the farmers.

BJP MLA Ashish Deshmukh said schemes such as Make in India, Magnetic Maharashtra (the BJP-led state government's investment summit) and Skill India "showed no results on the ground".

The opposition led by the Congress has been accusing the government of benefitting Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence Ltd. from the Rafale deal. The BJP and Reliance Defence have dismissed all the allegations as false.

Questioning whether Swaraj's address was a UN speech or BJP slogans, Shashi Tharoor said she devoted the first half of her speech mentioning Modi's vision for a "New India" and discussing programmes as the Swachh Bharat Mission.

The dissenting voices in the SAD are louder than ever in a party which has been overwhelmingly dominated by the father-son duo.

MK Stalin, dubbed as "pompous" the event being organised by the government using taxpayers' money to further the "remaining political journey" of the incumbent AIADMK government.

Pushpraj Singh is the father of BJP legislator Divyaraj Singh and a three-time MLA in the previous Digvijaya Singh government. He had earlier left the Congress and joined the Samajwadi Party.

Congress leader Priyanka Chaturvedi said while the BJP garners votes in the name of Ram Temple, it sends Lord Ram to exile the moment it comes to power.

The road transport and highways minister alleged that the Opposition was trying to create confusion about the deal.

He took to Twitter to take a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a poem in Hindi alleging that he gave benefits to "crony capitalists" at the cost of state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the Rafale deal.

The revelation came at a protest rally organised by the AIADMK against opposition parties DMK and Congress, where the deputy CM also disclosed that he wasn’t allowed to visit the late party supremo during her hospitalisation.

Sibal said if the government did not come out with truth as to who benefited by "sidelining" public-sector Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the Rafale deal, the matter would be decided in the "people's court".

Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BSP is educating its party workers about the proper functioning of VVPAT machines and how to be alert about a possible Hindu-Muslim polarisation.

A recording of Jayalalithaa's voice (her last known voice recording), telling a doctor that her blood pressure of 140/80 was normal for her, was made available to the media by the commission in May this year.

Rahul Gandhi accused Arun Jaitley of having the ability to spin "2 truths or lies" with "fake self-righteousness" and "indignation to defend the indefensible".