Politics

Separatist-turned-mainstream politician Sajad Gani Lone will contest the upcoming Jammu and assembly elections from Handwara constituency, considered to be his stronghold.

The Congress workers led by state party chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury were also stopped by the police on Saturday.

Divided in 20 chapters, the book presents various facets of Yadav's life including his political rise and contribution to socio-political movements.

MCA will charge no fee for lending its Wankhede Stadium for hosting swearing-in ceremony of the first BJP government in Maharashtra.

Chakravarty, however, said that she did not think that AIUDF President Badruddin Ajmal, who is also the chief of Assam State Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, has done such a thing.

The change was made because of a holiday to mark the Chhath festival.

Ruling out any pre-poll alliance, BJP said it will contest in all the 87 assembly constituencies in the upcoming polls.

Assembly elections in two sates - Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir - are scheduled to be held in 2014.

Bharatiya Janata Party's Karnal MLA Manohar Lal Khattar will atke oath as the Haryana Chief Minister on October 26.

Selja said, "Priyanka comes to the forefront or not it's her own decision."

BJP and its ally together have 123 seats in 288-member Maharashtra Assembly.

It is for the first time since Congress' tally of 141 seats in 1990 that a party has crossed the 100-seats mark in an Assembly election in Maharashtra.

In a major shift of power, the BJP is all set to form the government in the state after 15 years of the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party rule.

The Congress conceded defeat easily as was always going to be an uphill task for it facing strong anti-incumbency after 10 years in power.

BS Yeddyurappa said that BJP and its leaders are on a successful path towards realising Modi's call for Congress free India.

While Congress won just over 40 seats in Maharashtra, it has been reduced to just 15 constituencies in Haryana.