Politics

Tejashwi Yadav accused Narendra Modi government at the Centre and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar of conspiring to frame charges against his family to wipe out opposition from the state.

The show of cordiality between the incumbent and the former premier follows a rare row that broke out last month after Modi insinuated that Manmohan Singh had colluded with Pakistan in the Gujarat polls.

The ‘do or die’ Karnataka Assembly polls are just three months away, and a lot is at stake for the three dominant players in the state.

The poet-politician was at the receiving end of the stinging attack a day after he gave vent to his ire against Kejriwal over being denied a Rajya Sabha ticket.

Mevani was present at the event to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima-Koregaon that saw attacks on Dalits and led to violence in Mumbai and a Maharastra bandh.

The Political Affairs Committee of Aam Aadmi Party, the party’s highest decision-making body, on Wednesday confirmed the names of Sanjay Singh, Sushil Gupta and ND Gupta as the party’s nominees for Rajya Sabha.

"The Congress is showing double standards. It is trying to stall the bill in the Rajya Sabha after supporting it in the Lok Sabha," Kumar quoted Jaitley as saying.

In a land where for half a century, the Dravidian movement, with rationalism and atheism as its founding principles, has spread its roots and no leader has dared to oppose it, here was a larger than life celluloid figure turning everything upside down.

Sanjay Singh, who is also the party’s national spokesperson, was the frontrunner for some time and had been asked to make preparations.

"Rajini is an uneducated man. What will he tell us? This is a just an age-old story of another Tamil actor joining politics. I will always oppose Rajnikanth," said Subramanian Swamy.

Rajinikanth's latest ambivalent statements on the possibility of his political entry have triggered a buzz in various circles, though not for the first time.

The TRS MPs had on Wednesday trooped into the Well of the House, showing placards and raising slogans demanding setting up of a High Court for Telangana.

The Delhi government had planned to roll out the service by February 2018, but after the L-G’s rejection, Delhi residents may have to wait longer.

A week after state BJP triumphantly declared that it has found a solution to Mahadayi river water dispute between Goa and Karnataka, the situation has gone from bad to worse embarrassing the entire party.

Chaudhary said he would openly raise his voice against the anti-people policies of Nitish government in the state and Narendra Modi government at the Centre.

Sikandra constituency falls in Kanpur Dehat district, a place which gained notoriety after the 1981 Behmai massacre of 21 upper caste Rajputs allegedly by Phoolan Devi and her gang to avenge her rape.