Politics

According to sources, the CPI(M)'s proposal hasn’t yet been accepted officially by the Congress high command with the party's state unit pushing against it.

The former defence minister accused the prime minister of ignoring the report of the committee instituted by him to look into alleged irregularities pointed out by Subramanian Swamy and Yashwant Sinha, who was then in the BJP.

Of the six Rajya Sabha seats up for grabs, four are currently with the AIADMK, one with DMK and one with CPI.

This is Modi's first visit to Amethi after coming to power in 2014. Union Minister Smriti Irani has been nurturing the constituency since and is likely to contest again in the upcoming polls.

They say they are not thieves but honest people, and ask me to change the slogan, the Congress chief said.

Describing Mumbai as the soul of India, Rahul Gandhi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks of developing 100 `smart cities', but Mumbai was a smart city and its strength and potential needs to be recognised.

The YSRCP chief is said to be offering tickets to Kamma community and promising senior positions on coming to power and targeting those who switched loyalties to the ruling regime.

UP CM Yogi Adityanath said the prime minister would reach Amethi, represented in the Lok Sabha by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, around 2 pm to inaugurate projects and lay foundation stones of various welfare schemes.

Twelve IAF Mirage jets crossed the LoC early on Tuesday and destroyed Jaish camps in Pakistan's Balakot. The strike, which is being dubbed as surgical strikes 2.0, came two weeks after a suicide attack on CRPF jawans in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama distric...

Mehbooba Mufti expressed hope that the Supreme Court, which is likely to hear petitions on Article 35A this week, will consider that the provision is a bridge between the state and country.

Actor-turned politician Haasan said he was being targeted as his party was growing in stature.

The Aam Aadmi Party chief, who is going to sit on an indefinite hunger strike from March 1 over the demand, said the people of Delhi will respond to lies and decades of deceit appropriately now.

Earlier this month, preliminary talks on a ‘joint strategy’ took place in the meeting of opposition parties at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi tweeted: "Congress highly responsible and very restrained post Pulwama. Modi pre-2014 made highly provocative statements including resignation calls for then PM (Manmohan Singh) at smallest incident."

Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar said if required the clips will be sent for examination but that will only happen after seeking legal advice.

CPI National Council member Ramakrushna Panda said the party has proposed to field its candidates in 12 assembly seats and two Lok Sabha seats.