Politics

The Darjeeling Hills braced for a fresh confrontation between the Mamata Banerjee government and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) which has called an indefinite shutdown for a separate Gorkhaland and against the alleged imposition of Bengali language in s...

At 10 AM on Sunday, when Deepa Jayakumar tried entering the house of her late aunt Jayalalithaa at Poes Garden here, there was chaos inside ‘Veda Nilayam’.

The AAP should go back to basics while preparing for the Rajasthan Assembly polls due next year, its leader Kumar Vishwas said on Saturday, indicating that the party had strayed away from its core philosophy while contesting elections in Punjab and Goa.

Virtually putting its ruling ally in Maharashtra on notice, the Shiv Sena on Friday asked the BJP to announce a "complete farm loan waiver" if it wanted to avoid a mid-term election in the state.

Despite the administration announcing that he would not be allowed to enter Mandsaur, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi reached the Madhya Pradesh border from Udaipur early on Thursday, and from there rode pillion to meet families of farmers killed in...

The Income Tax Department on Wednesday slapped a penalty notice of Rs 10,000 on Shailesh Kumar, husband of RJD MP Misa Bharti, for non-compliance of summons in connection with its probe in the Rs 1,000 crore alleged benami land deals and tax evasion case.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and other political leaders, including from BJP, on Wednesday condemned the alleged attack on CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury at AKG Bhavan in New Delhi.

Karti Chidambaram, who is under CBI investigation for an alleged bribery and corruption case, returned from London on Thursday.

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has dared BJP president Amit Shah to contest from Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat, saying it is not as easy as "eating cake".

Trinamool Congress Chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Sunday - in a Facebook post - announced the names of the party’s candidates for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha election, scheduled for June 8.

Gandhi had told media that the ‘expose’ will cause an ‘earthquake’, shaking the Modi government. However, nothing of that sorts happened.

DMK on Monday said it is up to Tamil superstar Rajinikanth whether he wants to enter politics or not.

RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy has welcomed Rajinikanth’s statements on joining politics, saying the Tamil superstar is making well thought out statements.

“It is my personal choice that the former Lok Sabha speaker should be the next President of India,” says Samajwadi Party general secretary Naresh Agarwal.

Within hours of Punjab government's contention that it had agreed on Friday to a dialogue with Haryana on the SYL canal issue following Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's intervention, the latter strongly disputed the claim, saying it is "misleading and...

As the political tussle over the use of Electronic Voting Machines heats up, the Election Commission will on Friday meet representatives of 55 political parties, 16 of which had urged it to return to ballot papers.