Politics

Voting for the Lok Sabha bye-elections in Uttar Pradesh' s Gorakhpur and Phulpur will be held on March 11, while counting of votes will be held on March 14.

Recently, during an event, the minister said that only those from three districts of Uttara Kannada, the undivided Dakshina Kannada and Shimoga spoke the language properly. Other’s he said, were not speaking Kannada.

The BJP has never been a major player in Tripura which hitherto saw a battle between Left Front and the Congress. But the Congress campaign has not been aggressive this time with party chief Rahul Gandhi addressing poll rallies only on the last day.

A visibly annoyed Mamata reacted, and said, “Those who have Kisan Credit Cards and are entitled to loans are being denied loans. And yet some VIP bank customers are looting this country. What is this?”

The Congress Working Committee (CWC), highest decision making body in the party, appointed by Sonia Gandhi has been dissolved and the process to select a new one has been set into motion.

The meeting will take place at 7 pm, with the first round being about the refinery. After that, both Thackeray and Fadnavis are likely to hold the private, closed-door consultation.

Perhaps the most popular example of Banerjee not following Centre's lead is PM Narendra Modi’s pet project Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. In West Bengal, it is known as Mission Nirmal Bangla.

Union Minister for Sanitation and Drinking Water Uma Bharti, a former Madhya Pradesh chief minister, had on Sunday said that she won’t contest any election owing to knee problem and a troubled back.

Senior Congress leader Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil alleged that part of the purchase was made from a publication linked to the RSS at inflated rates.

History remembers the Agra Summit as one of the greatest missed opportunities of India-Pakistan relations. Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri in his book ‘Neither a Hawk nor a Dove’ wrote that the “solution to Kashmir was in the grasp...

Last year, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was involved in a controversy for eating fish at lunch before going to the Lord Manjunatha Swamy temple.

Salman Nadvi was expelled from the All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Sunday. The AIMPLB member had said that there should be an out of court settlement in the Ayodhya Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid case.

Party functionaries, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ministers and its lawmakers will take part in the 'yatra' to popularise government's work, a move that comes at a time when the party is facing possible bypolls following the disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs.

Stating that the Congress will raise the issue in the House during the ongoing Budget Session, he said the company in question is also under the scanner of the central government over various fraudulent activities.

The government has decided against making the break-up of the nearly Rs 58,000 crore Rafale deal public and said it could “compromise national security”.

The Election Commission of India has also set March 11 as the date for the Lok Sabha bypoll in Bihar’s Araria constituency and assembly bypolls in Buhar’s Bhabua and Jehanabad.