Politics

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday hit back at National Conference for faulting it for forging a coalition with BJP, reminding the opposition party that it too had joined hands with the saffron party.

"Who has given you (BJP) the right to use the Om symbol? Is it your party symbol? Religious leaders chant it. We all chant Om Namah Shivaya," she said at a public meeting here.

The crisis in Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is difficult to understate. After suffering her third consecutive electoral rout, Mayawati is again trying to shape up the party. But the organisation might be slipping out of her grip like sand.

In a new twist to the feud within the Samajwadi Party, its leader Shivpal Singh Yadav today said he will soon launch a campaign to unite "samajwadis" (socialists) to bring them on one platform.

Joining the anti-EVM chorus, All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday said that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are not at all credible and example of their faulty functioning has come to the fore in Madhya Prades...

Documents accessed by CNN-News18 reveal that AAP wanted the taxpayers' money to foot the bill of the eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani defending the CM in adefamation suit filed by finance minister Arun Jaitley.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to accord urgent hearing on a plea raising questions like whether people facing trial in serious crime cases can be allowed to contest and at which stage of trial, a lawmaker would stand disqualified.

The Delhi High Court on Monday rejected Yogendra Yadav-led Swaraj India's plea for allotting a common symbol to its candidates in the upcoming municipal elections.

Complaints of any scam in the previous Akhilesh Yadav government will be probed by forming a committee and without any bias or vendetta, Urban Development Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna said in Shahjahanpur.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday alleged that there was a "pervasive, systematic and infringed control" over the owners of media by the Modi government.

The Delhi High Court on Saturday said it will issue an interim order on April 3 on Yogendra Yadav-led Swaraj India's plea against a single judge's verdict dismissing their petition for allotting a common symbol to its candidates in upcoming MCD polls.

Congress and Aam Aadmi Party-led delegations on Saturday reached the office of Election Commission alleging that during the testing of VVPAT machines in Madhya Pradesh for the by-polls, it dispensed only the BJP slips, no matter what button you pressed.

The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday claimed the three-member panel, which recommended recovery of Rs 97 crore from the Delhi government for spending on advertisements, does not have any mandate for the same.

Within the next 10 days is scheduled perhaps the most significant event of the year in Kashmir — parliamentary bypolls.

AIADMK deputy general secretary TTV Dinakaran on Monday accused the rebel party faction led by O Panneerselvam of "manipulating" its poll symbol of electricity pole as 'two leaves' in the RK Nagar constituency.

However, Agrawal kept insisting that the matter was serious, after which Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the SP member's claims were factually wrong.