Politics

Kamal Nath told reporters after taking office on Monday that his government will give incentives to industries that give 70 per cent of their jobs to those from his state and added that people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh get employment in Madhya Pradesh...

Rahul Gandhi said his party would join farmers across the country in building pressure on the Narendra Modi government to waive off farm loans.

Citing the Congress’ recent victories in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, MK Stalin said projecting Rahul Gandhi for PM “is the right thing to unite secular forces’.

The decisions have been taken at a meeting of a high level committee, chaired Home Minister Rajnath Singh and attended Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Addressing a function in Baramati taluka, Ajit also appealed to the activists to not label him as "future chief minister" of Maharashtra, where elections are due in October next year.

Parrikar, who is suffering from a pancreatic ailment, has been recuperating at his private residence near here since October 14 and this is the first time he has moved out of the house, officials said.

Asked if he would go it alone or ally with other parties for next year's Parliament election and bypolls to 20 assembly constituencies, he said, "Such things cannot be said now and it cannot be disclosed to the media. Some sections of media are imagining...

The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has suffered a rural drubbing in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in recent state polls and the party ruling at the Centre is looking for smart solutions to address agrarian distress.

A go-to man for the Congress this assembly polls, Vivek Tankha was at the forefront even when the party took on the Election Commission, alleging there were as many as 60 lakh fake voters in Madhya Pradesh.

Taking a dig at the opposition for not putting forth a PM candidate yet, he said let them first sort out the leadership issue and project the leader against Modi.

The party failed to win a single SC/ST seat in Alwar, Bharatpur, Dausa, Dholpur, Karauli, Swai Madhopur and Tonk districts this time.

He had clarified that he has no business dealing with Mallya, who faces extradition from the UK for alleged bank fraud and money laundering amounting to an estimated Rs 9,000 crore.

"The BJP really has the devil's luck (relax I'm not calling you devil's, it's only an idiom). The Rafale verdict couldn't have come at a better time after the electoral setback," Abdullah wrote.

Elaborating on the plan of an anti-BJP national front, Pawar suggested that wherever the regional parties are strong, they must be supported.

Kamal Nath’s confidence in Congress forming the government even before final tally was announced stemmed from the ‘Others’ column in the results.

According to the latest data, NOTA has polled over 5.3 lakh votes, which is only below the votes garnered by BJP, Congress, BSP, Independents, and Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP).