Politics

Sources in the Bihar grand alliance, which included all these three parties, said the two leaders discussed the prevailing political situation in the state during the near 40-minute-long meeting at her residence.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said GST is a very simple tax and those who follow the law will not be called to the office for assessment.

Her statement drew severe criticism from various quarters but she refused to take back her words.

The new group consists of P Chidambaram, Mallikarjun Kharge, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Anand Sharma, Jairam Ramesh, Sushmita Dev and Jyotiraditya Scindia — a clear mix of leaders who are believed to be Sonia and Rahul loyalists.

In an effort to wean away a section of Congress's traditional Dalit vote bank, BS Yeddyurappa has decided to invite all of 27 Dalit couples he visited for breakfast during his pre-election campaign to Bengaluru .

Asked about the contest being described as 'Dalit versus Dalit' (as the NDA's candidate Ram Nath Kovind too is a Dalit), Meira Kumar said, "I am both happy and pained over this.

BJP president Amit Shah described in detail the achievements of Modi, especially in employment creation, irrigation and creation a conducive environment to attract private investments in Gujarat.

PM Narendra Modi is the first prime minister of India to have visited Israel in 70 years. "There had been a keen interest among politicians in the past to visit the US, but no one wanted to visit Israel as they were more concerned about their vote bank po...

The Congress-led Opposition's Presidential candidate Meira Kumar termed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a fighter and a mass leader.

Bihar was the last frontier in the Hindi heartland which remained out of the BJP’s grasp even at the peak of the Ram Temple movement.

Opposition DMK on Monday staged a walkout in the Tamil Nadu Assembly after Speaker P Dhanapal declined permission to raise the issue of alleged payment of bribes to a Tamil Nadu minister and officials to facilitate sale of banned gutkha.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar is addressing a press conference a day after taking on the Congress.

Denouncing the recent incidents of alleged mob lynchings "in the name of religion and cow", Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said the country needs to be protected from "this politics of hate".

The Opposition tonight stood a divided house as NCP, JD(U), the BSP, the BJD, Samajwadi Party and Janata Dal(S) participated in the midnight launch of the GST, which was boycotted by the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the Left and some other parties.

Two separate police complaints were on Thursday lodged against senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan over his controversial remarks against the Indian Army.

"The full form of GST is...," fumbled an Uttar Pradesh minister as he struggled to get the correct answer just less than 48 hours before the roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).