Politics

Modi said he will never forget one of Premchand's stories, Idgah. "The story is about young Hamid, who does not buy sweets or gifts during Id but buys a 'Chimta' so that his grandmother does not burn her hands."

In Palghar, the bypoll was necessitated following the death of BJP's Chintaman Wanaga.

The audio clip is at the centre of a row between the BJP and parties like the Shiv Sena, Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which have condemned the language and the aggressive tone of Fadnavis in it.

The meeting was attended by former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara, state party in-charge K C Venugopal, and senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and D K Shivakumar.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray released the audio clip while addressing a rally in Palghar and demanded that the Election Commission act against Chief Minster Devendra Fadnavis.

Kumaraswamy will be the second chief minister to take oath in Karnataka within a week, after BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa stepped down without facing the floor test on May 19 in the face of imminent defeat.

A bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi quashed the law, which entitled former chief ministers to retain government bungalows for a lifetime, ruling that granting further privilege violates Right to Equality under Article 14.

"The truth is in 2014, a slogan in India was 'ghar ghar Modi'. In 2019, the Congress will ensure it is 'bye bye Modi'. Today, we are making friends and NDA is making enemies," Rahul Gandhi said.

Legislative Assembly polls in Telangana would be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections in 2019. Shah is likely to visit Telangana next month to assess the political situation and plan for the elections.

The families of the people who were killed in political violence during the Panchayat polls will get compensation of Rs 2 lakh each.

Mulayam Singh Yadav met CM Yogi on Wednesday over the recent order of the Supreme Court asking former CMs to vacate their official residences. As per the sources, Yadav suggested to the CM that he and his son Akhilesh’s house should be allotted in the nam...

The moot question is whether the Governor had a sound basis and precedents to support his decision to invite the single largest party instead of a leader claiming majority with post-poll alliance to form the government.

A special bench of three-judges headed by Justice A K Sikri was told by the senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi that deliberate delay in inviting the leader of Congress-JD(S) combine to form government in Karnataka amounted to subverting democracy.

Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha staged a protest outside the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday against the Governor's decision, and alleged that the unconstitutional move amounted to murder of democracy.

The governor took the decision on inviting the BJP, the single largest party in the state, and not the majority coalition of JDS and Congress, after consulting with former Attorney General Mukul Rohtagi in the evening.

A senior police officer said that a notice has been sent to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and he will be examined on May 18 at 11 am.