Politics

A day after Devendra Fadnavis returned as the chief minister of Maharashra, the Shiv Sena claimed that the Sena-NCP-Congress combine has a support of 165 MLAs and can comfortably prove its majority in the Assembly.

His clarification came after Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, who was on Saturday sacked as NCP legislative party leader, stressed that Sharad Pawar is his leader.

Nitin Gadkari in an interview to PTI after an election campaign at Palamu said that the BJP is fighting this assembly poll on themes like development works and job opportunities created in the state.

In a dramatic turn of events, Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday returned as chief minister propped up by NCP's Ajit Pawar, who was made his deputy, just hours after the new alliance of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress reached a consensus that Sena chief Uddhav Tha...

In his letter, the Leader of Opposition wrote that people of Andhra Pradesh were disappointed over the map published by Survey of India on November 2 as Amaravati did not find a place on the map.

Thirteen years ago, former PM HD Deve Gowda went into a silent mode communicating only through his trusted aides, claiming that his son HDK had betrayed him by splitting the party and going with the 'communal' BJP.

Recently, despite the Sharad Pawar-led party being in the opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was seen praising NCP at the Winter Session of Parliament for strictly 'adhering to parliamentary norms'.

The Jarkhand Mukti Morcha, the Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal had recently announced a pre-poll tie-up for the state, with former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren as the alliance's CM candidate.

Akbaruddin Owaisi has denied he made any provocative remarks in Karimnagar and claimed that some people were twisting his statements by adding words for political gains.

The Shiv Sena won posts of mayor and deputy mayor in Mumbai and Thane. The BJP got the support of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena to win the posts of mayor and deputy mayor in Nashik.

Kamal Gautam was expelled on Thursday for 'anti-party' activities. Premchand Gautam has been appointed the new district president by the party high command.

Barla, who is contesting the upcoming Jharkhand elections on a JVM ticket, said freedom of expression is being curtailed and locals are being slapped with sedition charges for protesting against displacement.

As many as 25 of the 29 MPs in the panel, including East Delhi's cricketer-turned-lawmaker Gautam Gambhir, did not attend the meeting.

The move by the main opposition party comes in the backdrop of the Assembly speaker disqualifying BJP legislator Prahlad Lodhi from the House following his conviction in a criminal offence.

The Congress alleged that the Modi government had overruled the RBI to introduce electoral bonds to enable 'black money to enter the BJP coffers' and demanded that the scheme be scrapped immediately.

Dhankhar said the allegations against him are "completely baseless" and wondered which department of the government he has been running.