Politics

Alipurduar: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that some leaders of North Bengal were trying to divide the state with the help of BJP and pledged to give her blood to prevent any such division."Some divisive...

Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh State Election Commission on Tuesday announced the schedule for bye-election to two-tier Panchayat bodies to be held on July 12 next.These include 130 Gram Panchayat Constituencies (GPCs) and one Zilla Parishad Constituency (ZPC) spread over...

Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaddudin Owaisi on Monday demanded the arrest of suspended BJP National spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her anti-Islam remark against Prophet Muhammad and his wife during a TV debate.Talking tothe media, Owaisi attacked...

New Delhi: Attacking the BJP over the derogatory references to Islam and Prophet Muhammad made by its spokespersons that caused outrage in the Islamic world, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday accused the former of bringing "shame to...

New Delhi:  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said India is "divided internally", and has become "weak externally", adding that the situation has damaged India's global standing. Amid the ongoing controversy around the comments of former BJP leaders Nupur Sharma...

New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday suspended national spokesperson Nupur Sharma over her controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad during a TV debate. The party has also suspended Delhi BJP's media in-charge Naveen Kumar Jindal.Issuing a statement after the decision, the...

New Delhi: Congress on Sunday blamed the BJP for pushing India into "a dark age of religious polarisation", and said sacking spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal was not sufficient. "BJP’s statement today saying it is, “strongly against any ideology...

Bhubaneswar: In a surprise move all the council of ministers in the Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha resigned on Saturday to facilitate a new ministry to take oath on Sunday.Political pundits said this will be the first of its...

Patna: Two days after participating in an all party meeting on caste census in Bihar, BJP stepped up pressure on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to frame population control law to check unbridled growth of population in the state.Chief Minister...

Ahmedabad: Former Gujarat Congress working president Hardik Patel on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gandhinagar.Hardik officially joined the party in the afternoon at Srikamlam, Koba, near the party's state headquarters, capital Gandhinagar.Moths before the Assembly polls...