Politics

The court asked the police to file a consolidated status report in a week and listed the bail application of accused and alleged middleman Sukesh Chandrashekar's for further hearing on December 18.

Banerjee said she was sending Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi to meet Sinha, who was detained at Akola in Maharashtra while protesting along with hundreds of farmers.

What started off as a young Congress leader denouncing his party’s ways of electing its leader ended up with two brothers washing their dirty linen in public, something that Prime Minister Narendra Modi took note of.

Rahul Gandhi will file the nomination for the post of Congress president today, paving the way for his much-awaited elevation and setting the stage for a contest against PM Narendra Modi ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The Prime Minister was referring to the letter issued last month by Thomas Macwan, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Gandhinagar, in which he had appealed to Christians to pray to save the country from "nationalist forces".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the UPA government under Manmohan Singh also wanted the project but could not get it. "The NDA government got it at a negligible price. So the Congress didn't like that. My only grievance against the Congress is that if t...

Tripura has also benefited a lot from the rural employment guarantee scheme MNREGA and it was largely due to the efforts of the Modi government, Tripura BJP president Biplab Kumar Deb said.

The Congress leader, who is leading his party's poll campaign in in the western state, accused the prime minister of "commercialising education at the cost of government schools and institutions and hitting students hard with fee hikes".

In an audio clip of the purported conversation between Poonawalla and Tewari, the latter is heard telling Poonawalla that his remarks against the election process were "one-way ticket out of the party".

Bolstered by National Crime Record Bureau’s 2016 report which put Madhya Pradesh on number one spot in terms of rape cases, Congress cornered the ruling BJP in state Assembly.

It is for the first time BSP has contested urban body elections on the party symbol. Unlike the BJP, BSP chief Mayawati did not campaign in these elections.

The Uttar Pradesh civic elections are a big popularity test for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Yogi Adityanath government.

Sources say, unlike Sonia, Rahul will spend more time at the party office like Rajiv and Indira did before her.

Rahul Gandhi will also be in Gujarat on a two-day campaign tour. He will kick off the current trip with a visit to the famous Somnath temple.

The chief minister's comment came a day after Lalu Prasad accused the Modi government of hatching a "conspiracy" to frighten him so that he gives up his "relentless fight for preserving communal harmony and social justice".

The RJD was demanding answers from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over alleged toilet scam, Srijan scam, and corruption in the appointment of lecturers apart from a discussion on the recent spurt in crime across the state.