Politics

With 51 candidates withdrawing from the fray on the last day for withdrawal of nominations, the chessboard for the February 15 Assembly polls in Uttarakhand is laid out where the ruling Congress and opposition BJP appear to be locked in a straight contest...

The Income Tax department has asked Election Commission of India (ECI) to derecognise Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for filing “false and fabricated” audit reports on donations, a media report said on Friday.

The first phase of the 7 phase UP polls will be held on February 11.

Running a coalition government with an ideologically opposed ally is an art, running it successfully would entail magic.

"BJP recollects temple issue only during elections, since it wants to cash in on it in the Assembly polls," Pradeep Mathur, the Congress candidate from Mathura Assembly constituency said.

Attacking CEA Arvind Subramanian for "confirming" through economic survey Manmohan Singh's claims that Indian economy is in a bad shape, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday wondered if the advisor worked for the Centre or the former Prime Minister a...

High drama prevailed at government-run RML hospital here with top Congress leaders visiting the hospital to enquire about former Union Minister E Ahamed's health and alleging that his family was not being allowed to meet him.

The high court also asked the EC to consider issuing proper guidelines to compel the registered political parties against putting up illegal hoardings and posters not only during elections, but all throughout.

It was flowers, rose petals and garlands all the way for Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav who on Sunday held a 12 km long road show here that reflected the new found bonhomie between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday held their first joint show, the latter likening their alliance to "Ganga-Yamuna milan".

Dismissing any threat from either the Akali Dal or the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab Congress president and the chief ministerial candidate of the party Amarinder Singh on Saturday termed the battle of the upcoming state Assembly polls as a fight between...

As polling day nears in Punjab, both the Congress and the SAD-BJP are getting out the big guns. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will be in Punjab for three days from January 27 even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigns in Jalandhar and Ludhiana...

The Akalis also promised Rs 2 lakh interest-free agriculture crop loan to every small farmer every year. It also promised to give Rs 100 per quintal as fertiliser input incentive on wheat and paddy over and above the minimum support price (MSP).

"This is not my fight, this is a fight of the whole of Punjab. Bikram Singh Majithia is the slayer of the youth in Punjab. Kejriwal ji ne har ek stage se yeh kaha hai ki jab bhi aam aadmi ki sarkar ayegi toh isko collar se pakad ke jail mein daalna hai."

BJP workers on Wednesday stormed into the party’s headquarters in Lucknow protesting against tickets being given to outsiders in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, daughter of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, will be campaigning for party candidates in Uttar Pradesh for the state assembly elections. Her name figured in the list of 40-star campaigners released by the Congress on Tuesday.