Politics

Terming demonetisation as a "disaster of 2016", senior Congress leader and Former Union Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday said its adverse impact on the country's economy would be felt in the coming years.

“Hum yahan kheti-baadi karte hain (We do farming here),” says Gareeb Das from Mallah (boatmen) community while standing in front of the confluence of rivers in Allahabad’s Triveni Sangam.

The DMK on Saturday called for the removal of portraits of the late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa from government offices, saying she was convicted in an assets case.

Serious differences emerged on Saturday in the Congress party over the issue of extending support to the Shiv Sena for the post of Mayor after a hung house was thrown up in the recent elections to the country's richest civic body, Brihan Mumbai Municipal...

Prime minister Narendra Modi is set to address a election rally in Manipur's Imphal West district on Saturday.

Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit taking an U-turn on her earlier remark on party Vice President Rahul Gandhi has clarified that he has "the sensitivity of a mature leader".

Almost a month-long polling schedule, voting in seven phases, diverse socio-political and demographic realities ,and more than 14 crore voters.

The insurgent groups in Manipur have called for a shutdown in the state on Saturday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigns here for the upcoming assembly election, a statement said.

Swaraj India, the newly-formed political party led by former AAP leader Yogendra Yadav, on Wednesday released its first list of candidates for the upcoming municipal elections in Delhi.

Voter turnout for Pune Municipal Corporation (BMC) was 54%.

Voter turnout for Nashik Municipal Corporation (BMC) was 60%.

As the fourth of UP’s seven Assembly election phases looms over the state’s Bundelkhand region, on 23 February, first time voters such as her, in the small town of Atarra in Bundelkhand’s Banda district, of look on it with bemusement and barely there expe...

An average of 77 percent of the electorate today cast their votes amidst tight security in the last and final phase of the three-tier Panchayat election in Odisha.

Akhilesh Yadav's 'donkey' remark targeting the Prime Minister triggered a sharp reaction from the Gujarat BJP, which accused the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister of "insulting" the people of the western state.

Edapadi Palaniswami, the new Tamil Nadu chief minister, has begun in the grand tradition of his mentor J Jayalalithaa by announcing a series of freebies. The question is how he is going to fund it now that the state seems set on the path to prohibition?

The Congress is confident of returning to power for the fourth time on the trot in Manipur, riding the growing wave of anger over the ongoing economic blockade and apprehension about the state's territorial integrity.