Politics

Addressing a virtual meeting of the BJP's office-bearers as part of preparations for assembly by-election to Deoria Sadar assembly constituency, he alleged that due the development activities undertaken under the BJP rule, the opposition parties were frus...

Shiv Sena also mentioned a study by the University of Michigan about how conspiracy theories about Rajput's death were pushed through social media, and a report in a foreign newspaper about Facebook's operations in India. Guidelines should be formulated t...

On 14 September 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh by four men. After fighting for her life for two weeks, she died in a Delhi hospital.

Despite his national ambitions, Ram Vilas Paswan could since the Janata Dal days and thereafter never really emerge out of Bihar politics. The closest he came to becoming the CM of the state was in February 2005 when his party LJP won more than two dozen...

It was during Paswan's time that the Mandal Commission report was implemented and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was enforced. Towards the goal of uplifting the socially backward classes, these two have been the most powerful instruments in post...

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, a founding member of the RJD, breathed his last at AIIMS in New Delhi last month.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asked the state government to discuss the issue with the 15th Finance Commission and let the latter decide.

In a series of tweets in Hindi, Shah said October 7 is a very important day in the history of India as on this day in 2001, Modi was sworn in as the chief minister of Gujarat.

Both Owaisi and Siddiqui have decided to contest the polls. While Siddiqui is reportedly going to fight on nearly 50 assembly seats, the AIMIM is yet to decide on the number of seats it plans to contest.

To a question on a weak Opposition in the country, Gandhi said the Opposition functions within a framework that includes the media, the judicial system and institutions that protect the voice of the people.

The CPI will be contesting Bakhri, Teghra, Bachhwara, Harlakhi, Jhanjharpur and Rupauli seats, the partys state secretary Ram Naresh Pandey said.

He also asked the Congress leader if he supported the clean chit given to Punjab's Social Welfare Minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh in the Scheduled Castes scholarship scam.

Dalal further said that the state's farmers should be thankful to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the NDA government who are working for farmers' welfare.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor also posted a picture of him driving a car and said he was headed to Hathras, about 180 km from the national capital.

The rally will start at 4 pm and participants will walk from the Birla Planetarium to the Mahatma Gandhi's statue in central Kolkata, they said.

APCC president Ripun Bora said party workers also staged protests across the state against the high handedness meted out to its leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi when they tried to visit Hathras.