Politics

Sacked Delhi water minister Kapil Mishra on Wednesday began his indefinite hunger strike at his residence and threatened not to eat anything till Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal reveals who funded foreign trips of five AAP leaders in the last two years.

Aam Aadmi Party MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj stirred the pot in the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday, claiming to have "proved" that EVMs can be tampered with.

Though not an avid movie-goer, Siddaramaiah went to a theatre to watch the blockbuster Kannada movie “Rajakumara” with Puneeth Rajkumar in lead role and his office shared the pictures on Twitter and Facebook

Mocking the claim, Sanjay Singh wondered if Kejriwal invited Mishra to witness the so-called bribe-taking or to count the currency notes.

Amid talk of opposition unity ahead of the Presidential elections, DMK leader Kanimozhi on Saturday met Congress President Sonia Gandhi here and invited her for her father and DMK chief M. Karunanidhi's 94th birthday celebrations in Chennai.

Socialist leader Madhu Limaye was anti-RSSism personified. He was baptized into politics on his sixteenth birthday, on May Day.

A senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Gwalior took to Facebook on Monday to express his displeasure after being suspended for an earlier post on corruption in the party.

Later on Monday, the AAP will hold a meeting of its Political Affairs Committee, its top decision-making body, where the Khan-Kumar feud is likely to be discussed.

Local Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters clashed near Shibpur Police Station in West Bengal's Howrah late Saturday evening.

In a bid to bring more transparency in political funding, former Union minister Manish Tewari on Saturday favoured linking the donations to political parties with Aadhaar.

"Any donation made to any political party needs to have an address. Therefore, you need to link every donation to Aadhaar, whether a person is donating Rs 1 in cash or Rs 5,00,000 in cash.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah has courted controversy once again after alleging that the recent encounter in Kupwara, where three soldiers lost their life, was being blown out of proportion to tarnish the image of Muslims.

The government on Friday rejected the Congress' allegation that the report of the Dhingra commission which probed alleged irregularities in grant of land licences to a firm owned by Robert Vadra was leaked.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called a one-on-one meeting with each Aam Aadmi Party MLA and on agenda is one key question: what went wrong in the MCD elections?

But the moot question in these deliberations remains whether the Congress as the main opposition party is willing to concede leadership to regional forces for the sake of larger opposition unity.

In an attempt to wean the youth away from insurgency in troubled Himalayan states, including Jammu and Kashmir and the north-east, the centre is giving final touches to a new industrial policy which will lay emphasis on job creation.