Politics

There is set to be renewed tensions as the Income Tax department raids on Karnataka Power Minister DK Shivakumar’s properties including the Eagleton Golf Resort, where Gujarat Congress MLAs are lodged.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said the government should have gracefully accepted the opposition's amendment in the Constitution amendment bill for backward classes in the Rajya Sabha as it "strengthened the proposed bill".

Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Amit Shah denied Congress’s allegations that its MLAs were being “poached” by the BJP ahead of the August 8 Rajya Sabha elections in Gujarat.

Earlier in the day, a Congress delegation met Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Joti and demanded setting up of a high powered committee to enquire into charges of alleged electoral malpractices by the ruling party and to give a time-bound report.

Dubbing these claims as mere "trash", Venkaiah Naidu heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he was "God's boon to the country" and that decisions were always taken collectively.

Raising the issue during the Zero Hour, Anshul Verma said over 27 lakh persons have been arrested between 1998-2015 in such cases and these include minors.

The significance of this political moment throws up so many definitions and dismantles so many theories that one is encouraged to think beyond the classic silos of opportunism, morality, ideology and pragmatism.

Sources said Sharad Yadav met Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi at Jawahar Bhawan and has called a meeting of party MPs at his residence at 5pm on Thursday.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi says the BJP is in touch with MLAs from the RJD and the Congress, but won’t need support when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar seeks a trust vote on Friday.

Congress MP Milind Deora has urged MPs to rise above party lines and raise 'Mumbai issues' in Parliament, a day after 17 people were killed in a building collapse in the Maximum City's Ghatkopar area.

The official Twitter handle of the President of India @RashtrapatiBhvn has now been handed over to Kovind and his team.

BJP leader Gopilal Jatav inaugurated a trauma centre in Ashoknagar which Jyotiraditya Scindia was supposed to inaugurate which fumed Scindia’s supporters. An activist demanded the centre to be purified by Gangajal.

According to a report by the BJP Internal Committee, R S Vinod, Co-operative cell convener of BJP, took Rs 5.6 crore to get Medical Council of India's (MCI) approval for a private college. The party on Thursday expelled R S Vinod.

Views vary, but all those we spoke to agree on one point that BSP supremo Mayawati’s resignation from the Rajya Sabha has definitely hit a nerve which may give a new direction to BSP politics if it is followed up with electoral prudence.

The Mamata Banerjee-led TMC is all set to observe Martyrs' Day near Victoria House in Esplanade area in central Kolkata to remember the 13 people killed in firing during a rally on July 21, 1993, along with other martyrs who were killed during the Left Fr...

Sonia Gandhi’s leadership is acceptable to the regional satraps, which is not the case with Rahul Gandhi. More importantly, Rahul is not seen at the popular level as someone who can take on Narendra Modi.