Politics

Kumaraswamy will hold a meeting with representatives of farmers' groups and agriculturists to discuss loan waiver, farmer suicides, and other problems faced by them, officials at the Chief Minister's Office said.

The RSS invite to former president Pranab Mukherjee, an avowed Congressman during his years in active politics, is being viewed with renewed interest in political circles.

Togadia said that "selling big dreams was not enough", adding that nation-building was based on "truth of work that has to be seen on the ground".

Exactly a year before general elections, Sonia Gandhi’s bonhomie with Mayawati signals the BSP chief’s emergence out of political hibernation to become a reckoning force in 2019.

The event will be used as an opportunity by the Opposition to showcase its strength as parties are now setting sight on the equations ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP had come to power for the first time in Haryana in 2014 by winning majority of the seats falling on the GT Road belt. Out of the 25-odd seats in this region, the BJP had won 22 taking its tally to 47.

At a press conference, the BJP chief also played down the support extended to the Archbishop, Anil Couto, by opposition leaders like Mamata Banerjee and N Chandrababu Naidu, saying they would obviously back someone who talked about defeating the saffron p...

The Congress party has planned a series of events on the anniversary of Mandsaur firing.

"I have been given to understand in the media that he (Deve Gowda) has no issues with a Congress MLA becoming the deputy chief minister. He has left the decision to us (Congress) and his son H D Kumaraswamy," Shivakumar

Sources said that while the Congress wants to appoint two in order to strike a balance between the two allies, the JD(S) is not in favour of it.

The heads of the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party respectively have been invited by JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy for his swearing in ceremony as Karnataka chief minister on Wednesday, and the offices of the two have said that they would attend.

Madhu Goud Yaskhi, a former Parliamentarian and senior Congress leader from Telangana believes alliances with regional heavyweights in other states such as Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are quite likely.

The audio clip surfaced just hours before Yeddyurappa was to face a floor test in the Karnataka Assembly. The party had on Friday released a similar clip purportedly of mining baron Janardhana Reddy trying to lure a Congress MLA by offering to make him a...

Even though the Congress got 6,38,621 (1.8%) more votes than the the BJP, the Grand Old Party would have needed a minimum of 1,25,608 votes to switch over to its side for the party to increase its tally from 78 to 113.

The CPI(M) slipped to the third position while the Congress emerged fourth among the political parties. However, its score was lower than that of independents.

On Tuesday, the West Bengal State Election Commission (WBSEC) decided to conduct re-polling. The WBSEC has taken the decision after it received more than 1,000 complaints related to poll violence and booth capturing on Monday.