Politics

Earlier, speaking to the media in Jaipur, Ashok Gehlot had said he is working on a plan to fulfil Rahul Gandhi's promise to provide for minimum income guarantee.

Elections were conducted in 12711 panchayats in three phases with the last phase being held on Wednesday. The voting turnout was more than 87 percent in all the three phases.

The Jat vote may see a three-way split this time with Randeep Surjewala, Umedh Redhu and Digvijay Chautala in fray.

'The alliance is a complete mismatch and the decision was taken in their self-interest. Mayawati never respected socialist people. People will not accept this alliance anyway and those who are boasting about it will have to face defeat,' said Shivpal.

The bill, which was passed by the Lok Sabha on January 8, seeks to provide Indian citizenship to Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan after six years of residence in India even if they do not pos...

While partially agreeing with Jaitley on the 'indiscriminate targeting of eminent bankers', Chidambaram attacked him for being in 'deep slumber' when the CBI was on an arrest spree and targeted eminent IAS officers.

The PM’s visit assumes significance as the BJP has been trying to make inroads in a state which has kept the saffron party at bay.

Ali added that there were more deserving candidates than the former president in the field of politics, like Biju Patnaik and Kanshi Ram, who had worked for the masses.

The MP government, in an order issued on Thursday, claimed that office-bearers of Credit Co-operative Societies had fraudulently obtained loans in the name of actual farmers. Chief minister Kamal Nath has called for an inquiry into the matter.

Last week, Gujarat deputy chief minister Nitin Patel told reporters he would personally be very happy if Thakor joined the BJP

The statement comes just a couple of days after a war of words between the opposition parties and the ruling BJP was triggered by a 'hackathon' conducted in London by a self-professed cyber expert.

The Congress, buoyed by its recent wins in three Hindi heartland states, has shown its willingness to go full-throttle in UP and will contest on all 80 Lok Sabha seats.

Earlier today, the Congress named Priyanka Gandhi as its general secretary in charge of east Uttar Pradesh.

The Binay Tamang faction of the GJM is considered to be close to the state government.

In yet another evidence of growing money clout in politics, out of 187 crorepati candidates, 35 won with runners-up being non-crorepatis, the report noted. Of them, five secured wins by over 20% margin.

Central funds in Bengal are siphoned off by TMC-backed syndicates, rest consumed by infiltrators, says BJP chief.