Politics

This came shortly after a Delhi Police team swept the Chief Minister's residence on Flagstaff Road to search for evidence and question his staff over the alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash.

As the party grapples with a backlash over the murder of a Youth Congress leader in Kannur, CPIM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday, “violence is not part of the Communist culture”.

Kamal Haasan will kickstart his rally from former President APJ Abdul Kalam’s residence in Rameswaram. The tour will stop at 12 locations and will include four public meetings, while finally concluding with the party flag being hoisted around 6 pm in Madu...

Modi also accused the Congress of spreading "lies and repeated lies" and asked the people to question them over their rule in the country for several decades.

BSP leaders claim Mayawati's directive issued last week is aimed to send a message to the core BSP constituency to underscore ideological moorings espoused by Dalit reformists from Ambedkar to Kanshi Ram.

Phulpur, vacated by deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, will see Kaushlendra Singh Patel contesting for the BJP. Patel has been selected keeping in mind the OBC voters in the constituency. For Gorakhpur, vacated by CM Yogi Adityanath, the BJP has fielded Upen...

Speaking on the issue of Phoolpur and Gorakhpur by-elections, Akhilesh Yadav said that this time people of these constituencies are going to take a very big decision.

Lovely joins the Congress at a time when rapprochement between Ajay Maken and Sheila Dikshit, always known to be rivals, seems likely. Maken had recently paid a visit to Dikshit at her Nizamuddin (East) residence inviting her to a media conference to list...

State minister Mohsin Raza said that UP government has increased the budget for minorities’ welfare by Rs 282 crore, which is a welcome step and shows government’s commitment towards its slogan of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ (development for all).

However, Shurhozelie Liezietsu said that the newly-floated Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) came forward offering the BJP 30 seats in the 60 member House but finally gave away 20 seats to the BJP.

The Grand Alliance ministry, headed by Kumar, collapsed in July last year after the chief minister resigned over graft charge against his then deputy, Tejashwi Yadav.

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Sunday said his party was "saddened" by the terror attack on the Army camp at Sunjuwan which left five soldiers and a civilian dead.

Congress claimed that an atmosphere of fear is prevailing in UP, and it will highlight failures of the Yogi Adityanath government before the people.

"BJP is not a party of only Narendra Modi, but also a party of Shahnawaz Hussain. It is a party of the common people and it is a secular party, not communal party," said Shahnawaz Hussain at the meeting in support of the party candidate in the Muslim majo...

The Madhya Pradesh governor's remarks came as the ruling BJP and opposition Congress in the poll-bound state engaged in a war of words over the Prime Minister's statement that selling 'pakodas' is a viable employment option.

The NC distanced itself from the sloganeering by party MLA Mohammad Akbar Lone which came even as the operation to flush out terrorists from the Sunjwan camp was underway.