Politics

While both Nitish and Lalu have refrained from speaking on the issue, party insiders are indicating that the alliance is off the table.

Stalin, who was seated next to him, was all smiles when his father and party chief uttered the words.

The Prime Minister discussed social, economic and educational issues related to Muslims with the 30-member delegation, led by Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, Chief Imam of All India Imam Organization.

In an attempt to woo farmers in Bihar, the BJP om Tuesday announced that it will provide them "interest-free agriculture loans" if the party comes to power in the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state.

Rahul will address a public meeting and interact with Dalit leaders and activists in the evening before returning to Delhi.

Congress is in talks with various political parties to form a secular alliance against the BJP in the Bihar assembly polls, its spokesman Rajeev Gowda said on Monday.

Former Odisha Chief Minister and nine-time MP Giridhar Gamang on Saturday announced his resignation from the Congress alleging humiliation by the party which he served for over 43 years.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that Indians should remain in India, while commenting on Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's recent remark that those who want to eat beef should go to Pakistan.

In the midst of the ongoing stand-off between the Delhi Lt Governor and the AAP government, the Centre on Friday said it has no intention to run the city government through anyone but is conscious of its Constitutional responsibility and committed to upho...

"Hame yahi rahne do" (let me remain here), Priyanka Gandhi said on Thursday, virtually turning down local Congress leaders' request to join active politics.

In no mood to back down on the issue of jurisdiction over appointments, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is reaching out to non-BJP chief ministers to mount political pressure on the Modi government even as the matter reached court.

Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, further fuelling speculation on a possible tie-up with BJP when he said he will be with a formation that is opposed to incumbent Nitish Kumar post-ass...

he party is also opposing the NDA's flagship Land Acquisition Amendment Bill.

Lauding the government's achievement in the last one year, he said that even the opposition parties have not been able to level a single corruption charge on the government.

Distress among farmers suffering from lower commodity prices and damage caused by early rains has weakened Modi's support in parts of the rural north, including around Mathura where at least two farmer suicides have been blamed on crop losses.

Modi's first year in office has been characterised by strategically planned and deeply focused tours abroad from the US to China and from Nepal to Canada.