Politics

These developments come less than a week since the dramatic all-stakeholders meeting in Dimapur, which decided that none of the political parties would contest the polls.

The BJP, which is hoping to expand its footprint in the North-east, is contesting all 60 assembly seats in the February 27 elections. NPP, an ally of the BJP at the Centre and in Manipur, are contesting Meghalaya polls separately.

Congress has won the Mandalgarh and Alwar Assembly by-election in Rajasthan and is leading in the parliamentary seat of Ajmer, Trinamool Congress has already won one of the two seats and is leading by a huge margin in the Lok Sabha by-poll. These seats of...

The woman brought the eggs in her bag and threw them from the barricade targeting Naveen Patnaik as a mark of protest against her husband's detention ahead of the chief minister's arrival in Balasore.

Sources revealed that the AICC may offer Pradyot a prominent role at the national level which is why he was asked to meet senior party leaders in Delhi amid media speculations that he may switch over to the BJP.

The Congress leader alleged that the BJP and RSS were attempting to undermine the culture, language and way of life for people across India, particularly in the North-East.

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017 was passed by the Lok Sabha, but could not be passed in the Rajya Sabha with the opposition demanding that it be sent to a Select Committee for detailed scrutiny.

Accusing the Siddaramaiah government of appeasing minorities for votes, BJP MP Shobha Karandlaje said, “If this is not Muslim appeasement, then what is?" Leader of the Opposition in the state’s upper house KS Eshwarappa called it Congress government’s “do...

Addressing the public meeting in Aurangabad, Asaduddin Owaisi said, "BJP wants to make this country Muslim-mukt Bharat and RSS wants Dalit-mukt Bharat. Muslims and Dalit need to wake up and fight against Hindutva ideology."

Hazare said, "I have written more than 30 letters to PM Modi in the last three years but he never replied to them. Modi has an ego of his Prime Ministership, hence he did not respond to my letters."

The Madras High Court court observed that the statements were not the poet's own and Vairamuthu merely quoted an American researcher.

The by-polls are due on January 29 in Ajmer and Alwar parliamentary and Mandalgarh assembly seats.

Electoral bonds, which were introduced by the govt to make funding to political parties transparent, will allow a political donor to purchase bonds from authorised banks and can be redeemed by parties only through registered accounts in a prescribed time...

The social activist said that if one dared to join any political party after signing the affidavit, he would be taken to court.

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The minister also advised Mevani, who is championing himself as the new age Dalit leader, to stop making "provocative speeches" and instead work for bringing people together.