Politics

It was a tough balancing act for the Telangana chief minister, with caste, community and gender considerations emerging as a test while he also had to keep ‘outsiders’ and warring family members happy

Shivraj Singh Chouhan had blamed the Congress government for delayed rains in Madhya Pradesh during a public meeting in Bhopal.

Manturam Pawar, the Congress candidate in the Antagarh assembly bypoll in 2014 in Chhattisgarh who abruptly withdrew from the fray, on Saturday alleged that the deal for rigging the Antagarh assembly by-poll was struck at Rs 7.5 crore

The final NRC, published on August 31, left out 19 lakh people for lack of proof of Indian citizenship.

The agency urged the high court to declare that the government order was unlawful. The petitioner mentioned that the government had failed to handover the required land for the construction of the Machilipatnam port.

Weighing-in on reports of economic slowdown, Shiv Sena in its editorial mouthpiece said that national interest lies in listening to Manmohan Singh's advice.

Senior BJP leader and state Minister for Large and Medium Scale Industries Jagadish Shettar rejected the Congress charge, saying the institutions were doing their duty and if someone felt being victimised, he cannot help it.

As the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP government completed one month in office last week, Siddaramaiah had claimed that it may last one year at the most.

Prior to his address, Amit Shah planted a tree and also flagged off eight electric-powered city buses newly acquired by the AMC.

In a major sop ahead of the Assembly polls due early next year, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announced waving water arrears of consumers in colonies categorised E, F, G and H covering majority of the middle class households.

The BS Yediyurappa-led government has appointed three deputy chief ministers among the 17 ministers inducted, with the choice of the leaders leaving ruffling feathers in the senior leadership.

The Bhim Army chief, Chandrashekhar Azad, was detained from Tughlakabad and taken to Kalkaji police station. An FIR has been filed against him for rioting and unlawful activity.

Priyanka Gandhi's remarks came a day after a delegation of opposition leaders, which wanted to visit Kashmir Valley to take stock of the situation there, was not allowed to leave Srinagar airport by the state administration and had to return to the nation...

Even in times of ill health, Jaitley considered it significant to explain his parties stand on the issue with utmost historic righteousness and political will.

His jibe at the government for issuing a 'look out' notice was an obvious reference to probe agencies issuing such a notice for party colleague P Chidambaram and arresting him.

Special Judicial Magistrate Anuradha Shukla put the chargesheet on court records and fixed August 30 for taking cognisance of it.