Politics

A top leader of the JD (U), considered close to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, claimed there was absolutely no differences with the BJP or within the party over joining the Union Cabinet.

Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, RJD leader and former deputy chief minister, alleged in a press conference that Sushil Modi purchased one flat in Ghaziabad for Rs 14.49 lakh in June 2006 by giving power of attorney to his brother Raj Kumar Modi.

Chandrababu Naidu, an ally of the BJP, did not specifically seek the abolition of the Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 notes, but added that their absence will bring down "distribution of money during elections".

The rift in the Morcha came out in open on Thursday after its senior member Binay Tamang was removed as a Chief Coordinator for going against Gurung’s wish in calling off the indefinite strike, which entered its 79th day on Friday, in the Hills.

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) won 32 out 48 civic divisions in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. The opposition YSR Congress had to be content with just 10 seats.

AIADMK Deputy General Secretary TTV Dinakaran has approached the High Court against the party's general council and executive council meeting scheduled for September 12. He had on Wednesday kicked up a storm claiming he had "sleeper cells" within the part...

There has been speculation that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, his two deputies and a minister could become legislators within the stipulated six-month period after assuming office by getting elected to the Upper House.

Eknath Khadse, who was the senior most member of Devendra Fadnavis-led government, resigned in 2016 after he was accused of purchasing a piece of land illegally in Bhosari near Pune, misusing his official position.

RJD chief Lalu Yadav will lead the opposition’s 'Desh Bachao-Bhajpa Bhagao' rally in Patna on Sunday. The event has lost some of its sheen after many opposition leaders decided to gave it a miss.

The Congress president Sonia Gandhi appealed for peace, while vice-president Rahul Gandhi stressed that violence and brutality had no place in society.

The court has asked him not to go to the wards where the lady resides and works. The counsel representing Vincent argued that days on which the lady accused the MLA of raping her, he was participating in various stage programmes.

Explaining the chronology of events related to the case, Vijayan said a vigilance probe ordered by the then UDF government in the state had found nothing incriminating to include his name in the case.

This will be Modi's third meeting with the chief ministers after the BJP swept to power in 2014, but the first such exercise since it formed a government in Bihar by joining hands with the JD(U).

According to the police, at least 27 cows had died at a government-aided cow shelter in Durg district of Chhattisgarh run by one Harish Verma who was arrested on Friday.

It is absolutely clear that oxygen shortage and laxity were the reasons behind the tragedy, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi told reporters on Saturday after meeting family members of Gorakhpur victims.

Attacking Hamid Ansari, Indresh Kumar said all the while during his ten-year tenure as vice president he was secular and after demitting the post he has become hardliner.