Politics

A state level leader of ruling RJD and two others were arrested with 16 bottles of liquor in Purnea district of Bihar where total prohibition was imposed last year, police said on Saturday.

Brisk 25 per cent polling was reported amid tight security from most of the 38 assembly constituencies in Manipur that voted on Saturday, an official said at 9.30 a.m.

Taking on Rahul Gandhi for his criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over cleaning of the Ganga, Union Minister Uma Bharti on Friday asked the Congress leader to refrain from making "frivolous" comments.

Refusing to disclose her party's cards ahead of the election to the Mayor's post on March 9, Sena spokesperson Neelam Gorhe too said, "One week in politics is too a long time. So wait and watch."

The question paper for recruitment to some lower level posts in the army was allegedly leaked in Maharashtra and Goa, leading to cancellation of the examination conducted by the Army Recruitment Board yesterday. Thane police have so far arrested 21 accuse...

The political slugfest roiling Delhi University’s North Campus got even more heated after a BJP Member of Parliament compared Gurmehar Kaur to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and junior Home Minister Hansraj Ahir saying that the “police will do their job”.

There is a new bunch you come across these days as you enter Ayodhya. They peer inside car windows and offer services to pilgrims and travellers who are unfamiliar with of this ancient town's temple run.

The joint roadshow of Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav in Varanasi, scheduled for Monday, has been postponed.

SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav has punctured the 'cycle', while Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's feuding uncle Shivpal has broken its chain, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday.

Congress would ditch the SP as the party has the history of belittling its own senior leaders like former Prime minister Narasimha Rao among others, said the Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday accused Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav of shattering the dreams of his father Mulayam Singh Yadav by forging a poll alliance with the Congress.

After BJP put up a sterling performance in the Maharashtra civic elections including the BMC, a group of party leaders from the city unit are now headed for campaign in Uttar Pradesh, where the last leg of assembly elections are due in March.

"We will not dilute our ideological stand. People defeated us and gave us a mandate to sit in the opposition. We respect that. But voters have not given the saffron parties, who fought a bitter battle, the keys to power. Congress will not help these two p...

Addressing a  rally in Faizabad, BSP chief Mayawati has urged people to be cautious about various UP election surveys projecting defeat of her party.

The Election Commission on Tuesday corrected its poll percentage figures for Uttarakhand saying that 65.64 per cent of the total electorate in the state cast their votes as against 68 per cent announced earlier.

Bihar Congress Vice-President Brajesh Kumar alias Brajesh Pandey has been booked in a case of sexual exploitation of a minor girl, following which he tendered resignation from his post.