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The video was circulated online since November 2017 in reports about Rahul Gandhi meeting the families of victims of a power plant explosion.

The Assembly Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy recognised the 12 defectors as members of the ruling party, hours after they requested him to do so, in a big blow to the Congress.

The committee will mull over the reasons why the CPM’s Hindu base, alienated from the party, has gradually shifted to the BJP in West Bengal and Tripura, to the Congress in Kerala, and to Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSR (Congress) in Andhra Pradesh.

Vajpayee had moved to the bungalow in 2004 after his government was voted out, staying there with his family for nearly 14 years. They vacated the house last year after his death in August.

Roy wrote the tweets while commenting on the controversy over a new draft education policy that had suggested a three-language plan in which Hindi would be taught in schools in non-Hindi speaking states too.

Earlier on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah was given a detailed presentation on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, where the BJP has been pushing for carrying out a delimitation exercise for getting more seats for Jammu region in the state assembl...

Later talking to the media, Gupta, flanked by Kejrwal, advised the chief minister to avoid the path of confrontation for the welfare of Delhi.

Coalition worries multiplied in Karnataka after the BJP's spectacular win with 25 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in its pocket, leaving a mere one seat each to the Congress and JDS, which, despite a joint fight, were swept away by the Modi wave.

The two Chief Ministers are understood to have discussed issues vis-a-vis bifurcation of (undivided) Andhra Pradesh in 2014.

Despite facing anti-incumbency in several pockets of the constituency, Teli defeated Congress veteran and five-time MP Paban Singh Ghatowar by a record margin of 3,64,566 votes.

The ministry is a key project of the Narendra Modi government and was announced during the interim budget earlier this year.

A former shooter, Singh defeated Captain Ajay Singh of the Congress by 3,86,256 votes.

Shekhawat won the seat with a high margin of 2,74,440 votes. He defeated Ashok Gehlot's son Vaibhav from the Jodhpur Lok Sabha seat.

Shiv Sena's Arvind Sawant defeated Congress' Milind Deora for the second time in the general elections.

Pradhan, 49, would have been the BJP’s first choice for the chief minister’s post if the saffron party had come close to forming the government in Odisha.

Javadekar took over the reins of the ministry from Smriti Irani at a time when controversies kept the campuses simmering. But he successfully managed to stay away from controversies and avoided making statements.