Politics

Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Sukhpal Singh Khaira has said Kejriwal should have consulted the state unit before apologising.

The BJP on Wednesday suffered a double jolt as it was trounced by the BSP backed Samajwadi Party in the high-stake bypolls for the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats.

Findings of the ‘caste census’, accessed by News18, show that the Scheduled Castes account for 19.5% of the state’s population and the Muslims make up 16%. The Lingayats and Vokkaligas make up 14% and 11%, respectively. Given the explosive nature of the f...

Babulal Gaur, who puts his own party in a spot with stinging queries inside the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, asked during Question Hour how many teachers have been deployed on election duty as Booth Level Officers.

BJP President Amit Shah reached the Parliament just as Congress President Rahul Gandhi was about to step out of gate number 4. The two leaders suddenly came face-to-face and decided to not even acknowledge each other’s presence.

Terming the recent by-poll win in Madhya Pradesh a "very important triumph", Scindia said the Congress won despite the BJP throwing "everything but the kitchen sink" into the election.

The bypolls were necessitated after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya vacated the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats, respectively following their election to the state legislative council.

The BJP can get three candidates elected to the Rajya Sabha, given its strength of 122 MLAs in the 288-member House. Union Human Resource Development Minister and BJP leader Prakash Javadekar filed his nomination papers on Friday.

The move comes after the poll authorities "remained silent" over the Left's request for postponement of the Charilam poll "until normalcy returned".

The interesting choice of the resolution comes at a time when some political parties — both regional and national — have sought to build campaigns around sub-nationalism and regional languages as the BJP makes a decisive attempt to expand its political fo...

On March 6, a statue of Periyar was defiled in Tirupattur in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu after H Raja posted a comment on Facebook that the rationalist leader's statue would meet the same fate of Communist leader Lenin's statue in Tripura.

Yogi on Tuesday said, “I am not like them (SP) because I am a Hindu and have no reason to celebrate Eid. And I am proud of it. But my government would continue to work for a peaceful celebration of Eid.” He was replying to the address of the governor to t...

Karti Chidambaram contended that his arrest was "illegal and arbitrary" but the agency opposed his bail plea, saying the investigation was at a crucial stage and his custodial interrogation was necessary to unearth the entire conspiracy in the INX Media c...

Sonia Gandhi's invitation comes at a time when talk of a non-BJP, non-Congress front is doing the rounds following a proposal by TRS chief and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao for a national consultation process on the matter.

Though several opposition parties have opposed the idea, saying it was not realistic in the present situation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP have pressed for simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies to help save time and resourc...

In 2016, the RSS dispatched a group of 250 workers under the Vistarak Yojna for establishing 125 shakhas in Tripura. Despite major resistance from the administration and other groups active in the region, the Sangh was not deterred from their mission of t...