Politics

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator and Kuwait-based businessman Thomas Chandy will be sworn in on Saturday as a minister in Kerala.

The Uttar Pradesh government has cracked down only against illegal slaughterhouses and the drop in export of buffalo meat last fiscal was due to global factors, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday credited the BJP workers for the party's overwhelming victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, saying the election results had proved many political analysts wrong.

It was also decided that the party would undertake a membership drive afresh from April 15.

In its press release announcing the Interim Order, the Election Commission said: "Neither of the aforesaid two groups shall also be permitted to use the symbol ‘Two Leaves’, reserved for ‘All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’;

Stepping up his electoral campaign for by-polls to Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency, Abdullah cautioned against attempts to divide people, generate mistrust and hate between various segments of society and subjecting the people of Kashmir to humiliation an...

“My voters have no problem with my TV shows. Because of their love and blessings, I and my wife won six elections….I fail to understand why somebody has pain in stomach due to my TV shows,” Sidhu said while speaking to reporters. The local bodies minister...

The uneasy truce between Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh and cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu seems to be cracking.

Observing that it cannot interfere in policy matters of government, the Madras High Court on Wednesday disposed of a petition challenging AIADMK Deputy General Secretary T T V Dinakaran's candidature for the April 12 RK Nagar Assembly bypoll on the ground...

Navjot Singh Sidhu has stirred up another controversy within a week of swearing in as Punjab minister by taking his wife along on official meetings.

The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday will decide which faction of the AIADMK is the lawful claimant to the party's poll symbol – Two Leaves - a ruling that could potentially have far-reaching impact on both O. Panneerselvam and Sasikala Natarajan in...

A day after Rajya Sabha chairman expressed unhappiness over absent MPs and Ministers in the house, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also lashed out at BJP MPs for missing in action during important discussions and debates.

The BJP victory in UP has shaken up the Media and other political parties not only for the scale of the victory but also its aftermath.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, which did not field any Muslim for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, has inducted Mohsin Raza in its cabinet.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a brief chat with Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and outgoing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday.

Ending the suspense, the BJP has picked Gorakhpur MP Yogi Aditanath as the next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.