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Polling will be held on Saturday to elect the 117-member Punjab Assembly in a three-cornered contest with Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP combine, which is battling anti-incumbency after a 10-year rule, locked in a tough contest with Congress and new entrant Aam...

The slashing of cash limit for political donations from Rs 20,000 to Rs 2,000, proposed in the Budget, will open up "a plethora of ways" in which unaccounted money would come into play, CPI(M) said.

THE Congress has blasted the Central government for the alleged secrecy over the death of former Minister of state for External Affairs E Ahamed who suffered a cardiac arrest during the President’s address in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

With Samajwadi party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav opposing the SP-Congress alliance, Lok Dal still sees an opportunity to convince him to campaign for its candidates in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday asked the Election Commission to take note of Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal's alleged stay at the residence of an ex-militant in Moga, claiming this has vitiated the poll atmosphere...

NCP supremo Sharad Pawar has scotched rumours that his party was cosying up to BJP, saying it will never support the saffron party nor join hands with communal forces and compromise on secularism.

Trinamool Congress, which is angry over the arrest of its two MPs by CBI in connection with the chitfund scam, will not attend Parliament on February 1 when the Budget is presented.

RSS rebel Subhash Velingkar-led Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM) and Shiv Sena in their joint manifesto for Goa polls have promised to ban Electronic Dance Music (EDM) festivals in the coastal state even as it assured to discontinue government grants to English m...

The AAP has appointed 400 volunteers here in an effort to topple the mighty Majithia in his home ground.

Don-turned-politician and four-time MLA from Mau constituency, Mukhtar Ansari on Thursday joined Bahujan samaj Party (BSP).

High drama was witnessed at BJP district office when a group of workers, angry over ticket being given to an "outsider" from Ayodhya Assembly seat, tied with ropes local MP Lallu Singh and party unit chief Awadhesh Pandey and held them hostage for about t...

Three BJP leaders, including the district chief, were booked after they violated the mode code of conduct in Khatoli town ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls next month.

The Election Commission might have settled the claims and counter claims of Samajwadi factions without controversies, but now AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal is training his guns on EC.

As many as 89 candidatures were withdrawn on Saturday, the last day of withdrawal of nominations, leaving 1,146 candidates in the fray for Punjab Assembly polls slated to be held on February 4.

Goa Forward had expressed its willingness to have a pre-poll alliance with Congress on four seats.