Politics

In an exclusive interview to CNN-News 18, Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Thursday rubbished all charges of corruption levelled against PM Modi by the Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

Congress MLA Pandurang Madkaikar on Thursday resigned as Member of Goa Legislative Assembly, days after Dabolim constituency MLA Mauvin Godinho quit the party.

Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday approved conversion of 17 backward castes (OBCs) to Scheduled Castes (SC) in a key Cabinet decision.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said the planned statue of King Shivaji off Mumbai coast will be the tallest memorial in the world.

There was no official word as to what transpired at the meet, but it assumed significance as this was Sidhus first meeting with Gandhi after his wife Navjot Kaur joined the party late last month.

The Tamil Nadu government had on December 10 decided to recommend to the Union government to confer the Bharat Ratna on late chief minister and AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa.

Ahead of Punjab and Goa polls, AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday appealed for donations from common man, even as he said his party does not take funds from industrialists as "they ask us to do their wrong work" after elections.

"They are doing politics in Tamil Nadu for political gains. Doctors monitored Amma (Jayalalithaa). Specialists from Apollo Hospitals (where she was admitted), AIIMS doctors, Dr Richard Beale from London and those from Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore...

Amit Shah stressed on the need to take the awareness campaign over digital and mobile transactions to states.

The padyatra that began in North Goas Pernem Taluka on November 29, has covered 266 km and 34 constituencies, and Gandhis public rally will sum it up, he said.

Amid reports of a possible alliance with Congress for UP Assembly polls, Samajwadi Party state president Shivpal Yadav on Friday said he did not have any information about talks going on for such a tie-up.

BJP has decided to adopt the strategy because the party fears that post his allegations on the floor of the House, Congress members will force adjournment without listening to the counter from the government.

Launching a scathing attack on PM Modi, Rahul said the PM is afraid of him and if he lets him speak then his balloon will burst.

Hitting out at the government over demonetisation, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being a "tyrant" and alleged banks and ATMs in Muslim dominated areas in the city were not functioning.

BJP President Amit Shah said that it is the BJP which has given the nation a "Prime Minister who speaks". He also criticised Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for questioning as to what has the party done since they came to power.

The Bihar Chief Minister has written to Union minister Sushma Swaraj, expressing disappointment at the resignation of Nalanda University Chancellor George Yeo over the Centre's "intervention in the functioning of the institution".