Politics

The former Maharashtra chief minister said the Shiv Sena has been kept in loop on all discussions and any announcement will happen only after a meeting with Uddhav Thackeray's party on Friday.

All India Congress Committee secretary Dhiraj Gurjar confirmed in New Delhi that notices have been sent to several people over indiscipline.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee asserted that shoring up funds by selling off government stake in central public sector firms (CPSUs) could only provide temporary respite.

They held placards and raised slogans like 'stop cheating people'.

The Sena and BJP had contested the October Assembly polls together and jointly won 161 seats, before Uddhav's party started insisting on equal sharing of the chief ministerial tenure that led to acrimony and stalemate in government formation.

Senior leaders of the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party are expected to meet on Wednesday to firm up a stand and hammer out the issues on forming government in the western state with the Shiv Sena.

The move is aimed to allay charges that the BJP is using the governor to 'pinprick' the state government, as per party sources.

This is the first time that Banerjee has made a reference to “minority” extremism as she looks to fine-tune her rhetoric against the BJP and at the same time guard against Owaisi making inroads.

Rajya Sabha chairman, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu, had adjourned the Upper House at 11 am after the opposition parties raised the issue of police’s alleged assault on Jawaharlal Nehru University students on Monday as they protested against the fee hike...

The 250th session of Rajya Sabha started on Monday and PM Narendra Modi addressed the House saying the Upper House comes second but it shouldn't be made secondary as it has made some historic decisions.

The Shiv Sena had reached out to the Congress-NCP combine for support after its alliance with the BJP collapsed.

The booklet states that the Rajya Sabha passed 3,817 bills till the end of 249th session, of which 60 bills lapsed due to dissolution of Lok Sabha at various points of time.

The Parliament session will open with obituary references to two members of the Upper House — former Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Ram Jethmalani — and former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj.

In the northeast, it threatens to 'minoritise' its indigenous population by absorbing a Hindu population and civil society groups in Assam have opposed the BJP-led Centre’s intention to absorb Bangladeshis based on their religion.

Opposition leaders on Sunday raised the continuing 'illegal' detention of Farooq Abdullah, who is a Lok Sabha member, and said they will take up issues like economic slowdown and unemployment in the session.

The day started with thousands of Shiv Sainiks coming from across Maharashtra and queuing up at 'Shivtirth' for their turn to offer tributes to the charismatic and firebrand leader who passed away on this day in 2012.