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The disgruntled BJP leaders also met Speaker Biman Banerjee, questioning his decision to make Roy PAC chairperson. The Speaker told them appointment was made as per assembly rules.

Senate Democrats are proposing $3.7 billion in emergency spending to bolster security at the Capitol, repay outstanding debts from the Jan. 6 insurrection and help the federal government defray costs from the COVID19 pandemic. The legislation met immediat...

A close aide of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was arrested in a case regarding an ambulance used to ferry the BSP legislator from a Punjab jail to a court in Mohali, police said on Sunday. Barabanki Superintendent of Police Yamuna Prasad sa...

Karnataka Congress chief was today caught on camera hitting a partyworker.

Speaking during a press conference here, Gupta alleged that tanker mafia was "ruling the roost" under the Arvind Kejriwal government.

Tech entrepreneur Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Dalit leader A Narayanaswamy and Shobha Karandlaje, all from Karnataka, Wednesday found place in the Union ministry. RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR: Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a tech entrepreneur and a BJP Rajya Sabha member fr...

Pratap Sarangi who is among 12 MPs who resigned from the cabinet earlier today extended "profound gratitude" to PM Modi for allowing him to serve in the Council of Ministers for over two years.

Harsh Vardhan, an MP from Chandni Chowk in Delhi, is an ENT surgeon. He was also Delhi's health minister in the '90s and played a crucial role in the Pulse Polio programme.

Hardeep Singh Puri joined the BJP in January 2014 and became Union minister for civil aviation and housing and urban affairs in the second term of the Narendra Modi government.

Prahlad Joshi, who was Parliamentary affairs minister, has been retained by PM Modi. However, DV Sadanada Gowda, who was chemical and fertiliser minister, has been dropped.

BL Verma, national vice president of BJP OBC Morcha, is considered a close aide of former UP CM Kalyan Singh.

Born in April 1952, Rane started his political career while he was in his twenties. His initiation into politics took place as a member of the Shiv Sena when he became a local Shakha Pramukh at Chembur, Mumbai.

Ajay Bhatt is considered one of the senior-most leaders of the BJP in Uttarakhand and has served as MLA from Ranikhet legislative assembly in the past.

Mehbooba’s stand comes a day after the Gupkar Alliance expressed “disappointment” with the meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi.

Abhijit Mukherjee has been a two-term MP in the Lok Sabha in his father’s seat of Jangipur and has been in talks with the TMC leadership for the past few weeks.

Jessica Stern, soon to become the State Department's special diplomatic envoy for LGBTQ rights, sees a mix of promising news and worrisome developments almost everywhere she looks, both at home and abroad.