Politics

Mumbai: In a bid to woo north Indian voters from the metropolis in the forthcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election, the city unit of Congress party has launched Uttar Bharatiya Panchayat in the city, announced Mumbai Regional Congress...

Bengaluru: Voice for Rahul Gandhi to take up the mantle of the Congress President is growing in the rank and files of the Karnataka Congress. After Siddaramaiah, KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar Tuesday pitched for the Congress scion to take...

Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday denied the opposition Congress’ allegation that his Nationalist People’s Party (NCP) was poaching its leaders in the run-up to the assembly by-elections scheduled to be held on October 30.“There is...

New Delhi: Devender Singh Rana and Surjit Singh Slathia, the two prominent faces of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (NC) of the Jammu region joined the BJP at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Monday.Devender and...

Raipur: Amid a political tug of war in Chhattisgarh, state Home Minister Tamradhwaj Sahu has said “Bhupesh Baghel is the Chief Minister and will continue holding the post.”Following the Congress victory in the 2018 assembly elections, Mr Sahu...

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Monday described the Congress’ ‘Maun vrat’ (vow of silence) as sheer political drama over the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.“Why is that party and the Gandhi family silent over gruesome killings in the...

Cooch Behar: Just weeks ahead of an upcoming by-poll in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district, two persons were gunned down while five left injured as clashes broke out between two Trinamool Congress (TMC) factions during a turf war, police...

Shillong: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) spokesperson Manjinder Singh Sirsa has urged Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma to reject the state government’s High-Level Committee (HLC) recommendations to relocate Dalit Sikhs from Sweeper’s Colony in Meghalaya’s capital Shillong.“Minority Sikhs of Meghalaya...

Chandigarh: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Sunday strongly opposed the decision of the Meghalaya government to evict the Sikhs living in Shillong.Taking up cudgels on behalf of the beleaguered Sikh community, Randhawa has decided to take...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the most "democratic" leader and an excellent listener, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday and slammed the critics who say the PM takes decisions unilaterally.In an interview to Sansad TV...