Politics

Khan, Who had resigned from the Rajiv Gandhi-led government in 1986 due to his differences over the Muslim personal law bill piloted by the dispensation to nullify the verdict in the Shah Bano case, blamed the Congress for stalling the triple talaq bill i...

"Noida jinx" is a superstitious belief among political parties and chief ministers in UP that a person who goes to Noida during his or her chief ministership loses the next elections.

In a Facebook post, Jaitley said the conventional practice of funding the political system was to take donations as well as undertake expenditures in cash.

Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Congress could have made its suggestions on the Triple Talaq bill in Parliament during a debate but it saw to this that no meaningful debate occur as it was driven by vote bank politics.

The leader of Opposition Ajay Singh alleged that the Collector did so for exhibiting proximity to the ruling party which was in violation of civil service rules.

Naresh Uttam Patel, the state unit president of the Samajwadi Party, has issued a letter to this effect to all party members in UP.

Vishwas finally seems to be seeking his pound of flesh from Kejriwal in the RS nomination. His friendship with the Delhi Chief Minister hangs by a fine thread which may break anytime soon.

In Rajya Sabha, Congress, SP and BSP members trooped into the Well of the House shouting slogans seeking removal of Hegde and forcing Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu to adjourn the proceedings till 1200 hours.

The names or number of ministers in the new Himachal government was not immediately known, but Jairam Thakur has been meeting senior leaders JP Nadda, Prem Kumar Dhumal and Mangal Pandey over the last two days.

A delegation of the BJP led by state party president Biplab Kumar Deb met Governor Tathagata Roy this evening and sought his intervention.

Unlike his previous tenure, Rupani in his second innings would be facing a resurgent, aggressive and numerically larger opposition.

Both factions -- the merged EPS-OPS camp and the TTV camp -- are not averse to a merger of all camps and going back to the old AIADMK, where TTV had greater say in party affairs.

The BJP is leading in the by-election to Likabali Assembly seat in Arunachal Pradesh with 1,332 votes, while the Peoples Party of Arunachal is trailing with 406 votes.

Locked in a battle with the Centre and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation since the fare hike, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's office denied receiving any invitation of the inauguration ceremony.

Owaisi asked why Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not visit any Masjid or Dargah and stuck to only temples.

In his letter to DMK supremo Karunanidhi, A Raja launched a scathing attack on the investigating agencies probing the 2G case.