Politics

Rahul Gandhi arrived in Ahmedabad to appear before a metropolitan court in a defamation suit filed against him by the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank and its chairman, Ajay Patel.

Scindia said deciding about the party president would be a collective decision and a leader who can infuse a new energy into the party should be given the opportunity.

According to experts, the Speaker has the powers to conduct an inquiry into the reasons behind the resignations of one or more MLAs and take time to satisfy himself that no undue powers are at play.

Dwivedi, an ex-AICC general secretary, also said the credibility of the panel holding informal discussions on selecting the new Congress chief would have been more if it was formally set up.

A Congress veteran, Ramesh Kumar said he would cease to be a Congressman the minute he enters the speaker's chamber in Karnataka Assembly.

In a series of tweets, Rama Rao, the son of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, gave a "thumbs-down" to the #UnionBudget2019.

Mamata Banerjee on Friday hit out at the BJP-led central government for pursuing a 'political agenda' and accused it of tabling 'misleading reports' on Bengal madrasas in Parliament.

Launching the project at Shaheed Hemu Kalani Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya in Lajpat Nagar, Kejriwal said over 1,000 Delhi government schools will be equipped with CCTV cameras by November this year.

Banerjee, also West Bengal chief minister, rebuked a section of the leaders for the party's poor performance in the general elections and asked the TMC workers to prepare for the 2021 Assembly elections.

The BSP chief accused the BJP-led central government of trying its best to make the Budget attractive in all respects and at all levels. But it remains to be seen how beneficial it proves for the common people while they suffer from poverty, unemployment,...

The BJP has fielded External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and OBC leader Juglagi Thakor, the Congress has nominated Chandrika Chudasama and Gaurav Pandya in the bypolls to the two Rajya Sabha seats.

Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that there were inputs of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh using madrasas in Burdwan and Murshidabad districts for radicalisation and recruitment activities.

During the one-and-a-half-hour-long meeting, they discussed the need to simplify the process to get caste certificates and the problem of land encroachment.

NCP leader Dhananjay Munde criticised the ruling Shiv Sena-BJP over water logging in Mumbai and demanded structural audits of roads, bridges and buildings in Mumbai following the wall collapse incidents.

Together, the alliance now has just a wafer-thin majority of 114 legislators in the 224-member Karnataka assembly, where the magic figure is 113.

With the opposition questioning the delay in holding assembly polls, Shah said assembly elections were never conducted in the past in the state during the month of Ramzan, which was from May 7 to June 4 this year.