Politics

Demanding a judicial inquiry into the alleged scam, state Congress President Arun Yadav claimed other beneficiaries included kin of top politicians, judges, IAS and IPS officers.

As AAP grapples with controversy over allegations against its MLAs, its splinter group Swaraj Abhiyan has called for the resignation of party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying he has lost the "moral right" to govern.

Modi visited Vajpayee's residence here and handed over the award to the former Prime Minister's foster daughter Namita Bhattacharya and her husband Ranjan Bhattacharya.

Mishra is an AAP MLA from Delhi's Karawal Nagar constituency. He has worked for several non governmental organisations like Greenpeace, Amnesty International. He was the one of the first people to protest against the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Facing criticism over the action taken against the Dalit students body, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras on Sunday had reinstated Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle (APSC) which had been derecognised.

While the Congress called Khadse's statement a "despicable" one which is intended to hurt sentiments of the minority community, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) said that the minister got his analogy completely wrong.

Fifty FIRs were registered by Andhra Police on Tuesday against Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao for alleged illegal tapping of phones of his Andhra counterpart.

She said it is alarming that the coverage under the National Food Security Act is proposed to be reduced from 67% to 40% and the entire system of food procurement including MSP is "under assault."

After resisting JD(U)'s demand for weeks, RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Monday agreed to naming Nitish Kumar as chief ministerial face of the 'secular alliance' for Bihar polls, saying he was ready to drink "poison" to crush the "cobra" of communalism.

Rahul Gandhi plans to undertake a 15-km padyatra in Tamil Nadu later this month to meet farmers and get a first hand account of their problems.

Rahul is learnt to have favoured a broader secular alliance for the state and he has also told Kumar about the party view in this matter.

The BJP is "scared" of the JD(U)-Congress-RJD alliance in Bihar and wants to "break" it to derive political mileage in that state, an AICC functionary said Jamshedpur on Saturday.

The sources claimed that the probe was stalled due to inability to get permission to question the officials.

Terming CM-LG confrontation in Delhi as an "ego tussle" and "brinkmanship", expelled AAP leader Yogendra Yadav on Saturday hit out Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for handling a "genuine" issue in a "very immature" manner.

Ever since the breakup with BJP in 2013, Nitish Kumar has been pushed into a corner and has been trying, till now unsuccessfully, to merge or have an alliance with RJD.

An editorial in the CPI-M mouthpiece "People's Democracy" said Modi's visit would also give an official stamp to the existing "close strategic relationship" between the two countries.