Politics

The Congress on Sunday slammed West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh for his remarks on "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" and "Jai Sri Ram" slogans, charging him with using religion as a "political stick".

Kerala Power Minister M.M. Mani on Sunday drew flak for allegedly calling an IAS officer "mad" and made disparaging remarks about women plantation workers.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today took on the State Election Commission claiming that reports of "faulty" EVMs were pouring in from across the national capital on polling day.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Wednesday termed "historic" the ruling of the Supreme Court restoring criminal conspiracy charge against top BJP leaders in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case.

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao's son and cabinet minister K. T. Rama Rao earned Rs 7.30 lakh just in a couple of hours by "selling" ice-cream and fruit juice on Friday.

Captain Amarinder had again reiterated this commitment to shrugging off the VIP culture a few days ago when he preferred to queue up for entry, check-in and boarding at the Chandigarh airport instead of accepting preferential treatment while leaving for a...

Sushil, accompanied by Bihar BJP vice-president Devesh Kumar, said "We will bring it to the notice of the Election Commission through a memorandum annexing the affidavit that did not mention the property and loan taken against it. We will demand the EC to...

While the BJP candidate polled 75,217 votes, his Congress rival garnered 65,932 votes, the election office said.

Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh said on Wednesday that if the EVMs were tampered with he would not have been in power, contradicting the stand of his Congress party that the machines were not infallible.

Senior leader Veerappa Moily on Wednesday refused to back the demand made by opposition parties to the Election Commission to reintroduce ballot papers.

After allegations of involvement in a soil and mall scam, Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday found himself at the centre of another controversy.

A month is long enough in politics to overcome a defeat but the opposition parties are struggling to cope with the Assembly poll results, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, because the Modi juggernaut seems unstoppable, at least not before the 2019 general el...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday hit out at the Election Commission over alleged tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), dubbing the poll panel as Dhritarashtra from the epic Mahabharat.

A day after CJI J S Khehar said political parties must be held accountable for poll promises, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said the parties should treat their manifestos like "Bhagwad Geeta".

An abysmally low 6.5 per cent polling was recorded in the bypoll for the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat from where Jammu and Kashmir's former chief minister Farooq Abdullah is contesting.

Just two days before the all-crucial bypoll in RK Nagar, a seat which was held by the late J Jayalalithaa, CNN-News18 has exposed attempts by netas to bribe voters, who seem only too happy to oblige.