Politics

The Madras High Court had on Monday night upheld the order of a single judge dismissing a plea by Sasikala loyalist and MLA Vetrivel to stay the meeting convened by Chief Minister K Palaniswami-led faction.

In the vote count which concluded early on Sunday, the election office announced Left alliance's Geeta Kumari as the President-elect for the JNUSU, who defeated the closest candidate Nidhi Tripathi of the ABVP by a margin of over 400 votes.

Mamata Banerjee warned Trinamool Congress leaders that those who wanted to join other parties are free to move but no anti-party activities will be tolerated.

“They can eat beef in their own country and then come to India. This is a cock-and-bull story,” the bureaucrat-turned-minister said when asked if beef ban had affected tourism in India.

Chaudhary, along with 8 other MLAs, defied the Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, by not attending a meeting called by him. “ I have already apprised the party high command and explained my position when I met Sonia ji. Why should I go again?" he said...

Dinakaran accused the Palaniswami government of exerting pressure on his camp to woo the MLAs back to their fold and asked the governor to conduct a floor test.

In the recently held cabinet reshuffle, Uma Bharti was transferred from Water Resources Ministry to what is considered as a lower-profile Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministry.

Terming induction of new nine Ministers of State as "senior citizen's club", party spokesperson Manish Tewari said the average age of these ministers is 60.44 years when the "median age of India's 1.24 billion people is about 27 years and the Prime Minist...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who was also in-charge of the Defence Ministry, praises his successor Nirmala Sitharaman. Says the ministry has gone to a competent woman, who has worked her way up to reach here.

With this appointment, Alphons Kannanthanam will complete a journey across the political spectrum that began when he got elected as an independent MLA from Kanjirappally constituency in Kerala with support from the CPI (M) in 2006.

In a statement, TTV Dinakaran has said that they will take legal action, not just against those who convene the General Council meeting, but also against those who attend it.

BJP president Amit Shah's decision to put Pandey (59) in charge of the state unit appears to be aimed at consolidating the party's hold over the state's sizable Brahmin population.

AIADMK Deputy General Secretary TTV Dinakaran has approached the High Court against the party's general council and executive council meeting scheduled for September 12. He had on Wednesday kicked up a storm claiming he had "sleeper cells" within the part...

The Delhi government and Lt Governor Anil Baijal are at loggerheads with each other over the delay in clearance of the government's Mohalla Clinic project.

Addressing a press conference in Kolkata, CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday said, "It is unfortunate that for political gains the ruling party (TMC) in Bengal is indulging in appeasement politics and the BJP is adding fuel as a part of...

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said it was a judicial decision which everyone had to "accept", adding that he was only interested in ensuring law and order in Punjab.