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The former Union minister said he shares Sule's belief that social work and policy change are the paths to political empowerment.

Last week, Home Minister Amit Shah said in Rajya Sabha that total normalcy prevails in Kashmir with government offices and educational institutions functioning fully.

The lack of quorum for discussion on economic slowdown and other things you need to know from inside Parliament.

The Shiv Sena, which had contested the state assembly elections in an alliance with the BJP against the Congress-NCP combine, had severed its ties with BJP after results due to differences over power-sharing.

Raut said people did not believe him earlier when he stated that the Shiv Sena's 'suryayaan' will land safely on the sixth floor of Mantralaya (secretariat), implying the party would install its chief minister in the state.

It is sad that the Central government has stopped the supply of onions to the city for the last two-three days, the chief minister told reporters.

Addressing the media, Sule said she never had any rift with her 'dada' (brother) who had stunned the NCP by engineering a midnight coup with the BJP.

The party worker, Ramesg Solanki, said he was resigning from his posts in Yuva Sena and Shiv Sena as his conscience and ideology would not allow him to work with the Congress wholeheartedly.

Twitter is keeping a watch on timeless couplets of Mir or Jalib to make an appearance on their timeline one again in this last-leg of what has come to be known as the ‘Maha Drama’.

On the Supreme Court ordering that the floor test in Maharashtra assembly for Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to prove his majority in the House will be conducted on Wednesday, Singh said whatever is the decision of the court, it has to be respected.

The convention is to pick the senior-most MLA as Pro-tem Speaker, which in this case is Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat. But this tradition was broken last year during the Karnataka floor test.

A source in the Vidhan Bhawan said the Speaker has so far not accepted the NCP's decision of replacing Ajit Pawar with Jayant Patil.

Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Barve and other senior police officials conducted a review of the Vidhan Bhavan's security on Monday.

The clipping was allegedly shot a couple of hours before Yediyurappa was set to address a public meeting as part of his election campaign on behalf of BJP candidate and disqualified JD(S) MLA Narayangowda.

Sasikala is now serving a prison term in a graft case in a Bengaluru jail and this move is seen as a bid to prevent her from contesting party positions after her release.

Addressing a poll meeting here, the prime minister congratulated the Raghubar Das-led for completing his five- year term, a first in Jharkhand since it attained statehood.