Politics

While the Congress has been reduced to 88 seats in the 230-member assembly, the BJP is at 107 and needs to win just 9 of the 28 seats where bypolls will be held to achieve the majority mark.

The by-elections became necessary due to the sudden demise of sitting MLA Soilipeta Ramalinga. Chief Minister K and TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao announced Sujatha's candidature.

The 2018 data for West Bengal, the NCRB says, has been repeated in its latest 2019 report because of “non-receipt of data from West Bengal in time for 2019”. The report released on September 30 stated, “data furnished for the year 2018 has been used to ar...

Sehgal’s appointment as Additional Chief Secretary, Information, replacing Avneesh Awasthi, is proof of CM Yogi’s newfound faith in the officer who has been tried and tested by his predecessors.

Chirag Paswan, who has been challenging Nitish Kumar's performance on both law and order and development, had also indicated that his party was willing to contest on 143 seats if his demands were not met.

APCC president Ripun Bora said party workers also staged protests across the state against the high handedness meted out to its leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi when they tried to visit Hathras.

Kejriwal said the victim was not only inhumanly treated, raped and killed by the savages, she and her family were also “wrongly” treated by the ruling dispensation in UP.

After its dismal show in last year’s Lok Sabha polls, in which it drew a blank, the RJD has decided on not giving enough leverage to allies at its cost. The party also feels the Congress will always be open to a post-poll alliance with Nitish Kumar in cas...

Sources say that a programme is being drawn up in the form of kisan protest, which could start from Sangrur in Punjab.

Addressing reporters, Limbavali said it was a "well-organised" violence and not an "accidental event". He also wondered as to why leaders of Congress party didnot "come forward to extend help" to party MLA R Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy when his house was bur...

Both the parties had till now been denying it, with Fadnavis saying that the meeting was connection with an interview for Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana'. Raut is also executive editor of the Marathi daily.

She requested people who came in her contact to get themselves tested and follow protocols.

Assuring that the people can carry on with their day-to-day activities normally without any fear, the state government warned against any move to forcefully enforce the bandh.

At a joint virtual press conference, Congress' Haryana chief Kumari Selja and Punjab president Sunil Jakhar urged all parties to come together and oppose the farm Bills while asking the Centre to take back the legislations, saying these will make farmers...

A case was registered against them on Friday for holding a protest outside the district magistrate's office against the Centre's farm bills without permission from the administration.

Gandhi talked to some farmers through video conferencing and said they have no faith in the government, adding the country together opposes these agri-related laws.