Politics

The Congress had appointed three Cabinet ministers Tript Rajinder Bajwa, Aruna Chaudhary and Sadhu Singh Dharamsot as observers for the mayoral elections in Amritsar, Jalandhar and Patiala corporations, respectively.

Sources in the party said that the petition was filed to seek a stay on Election Commission's recommendation for their disqualification, and it was withdrawn keeping in view Sunday’s developments.

The offer of resignation came as the CPM saw a rift between two factions — one headed by Sitaram Yechury which favoured an alliance with the Congress for 2019 elections and the other led by Prakash Karat.

The then comptroller and auditor general (CAG) Rai came out with a report in 2010 which pegged notional loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the national exchequer due to 2G spectrum allocation in 2008 when Raja was the telecom minister.

The Delhi Chief Minister made it clear that if a re-election were to be held, their focus should be on not just winning, but ensuring that Congress and BJP lose their deposits.

Appealing Punjab's farming community to shun protest, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, in a release, said his government could not afford to waive any more of their debts at the present juncture, but was committed to alleviating all their woes at the earli...

With 20 seats vacant, Delhi will now head to a bypoll sometime in 2018. This will be a mini Assembly election of sorts and will be seen as a litmus test of the Kejriwal government.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah told party workers at a strategy meeting of party office-bearers, “There is no election in any other state at the time that Karnataka goes to polls. So BJP will bring in RSS workers from different parts of the country and dump...

Bairia MLA Surendra Singh claimed that by 2024, India would become a Hindu nation.

The Karnataka chief minister was in the national capital to discuss the party's poll preparedness and strategy at a meeting called by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, which lasted for about three-and-a-half hours.

Bhagwat made the comments at the inauguration of the RSS' Madhya Bharat Prant convention at Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday.

In the past, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari's controversial comments caused uproar on the social media several times.

"Nowadays, Khadse seems to have become closer to (NCP leader) Ajit Pawar and the latter too is responding to Khadse. This indicates Eknath Khadse will not remain with the BJP for long," Sanjay Raut said.

"People ask me if I will make my friends as enemies in this (political) journey. I won't make my friends my enemies & do that blame game politics to withstand & get a place in politics. That won't be my way and even people won't like that," Kamal Haasan a...

According to a political analyst, who is close to Gowda, first, he has to win family election to win Karnataka later. It sums up everything. Large family and larger issues.

Terming the process of talks and seat negotiations a waste of time, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, who had tied up with the Congress for the assembly elections in 2017, said he is not thinking of alliance with any party.