Politics

Yesterday, the Congress released two videos, dating back to 2010, allegedly showing Sriramulu and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy negotiating a bribe to a relative of a former chief justice of India to influence a verdict in a mining case.

Sharma has remained active and is doing his bit for the sake of the party by printing and publishing materials highlighting Congress party’s ‘glorious past’ and ‘misdeeds’ of BJP in pamphlets and handbooks by shelling out money from his own pocket in last...

Unperturbed by BJP’s carpet bombing on the last day of campaigning, Rahul said that it showed BJP’s nervousness.

In a graphic tweeted by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, he said, "Who works better?...Congress government of 2013-18 or BJP Government of 2008-13. Numbers speak for themselves. Choose right. Vote Congress."

According to party sources, Shivpal might soon be given the post of the party’s national general secretary. This reversal of fortunes comes after months of turmoil that saw Yadav lose the number 2 position in the party following a coup of sorts by nephew...

The CM decided to write the letter to Union Education minister Prakash Javadekar after 520 question papers in Bengali were supplied but the number of candidates were 600 at Cossipore Central School in Kolkata.

Addressing BJP yuva morcha workers via the 'Narendra Modi App,' the prime minister also lauded efforts of party workers in maintaining the public mood in favour of the party despite rumours of a hung assembly in the May 12 elections in Karnataka.

Taking the BJP's campaign in the poll-bound Karnataka to full throttle ahead of the voting next week, Modi also accused the Congress of "distorting history" as part of a conspiracy to divide the society, of making false promises and having no agenda other...

The focus of LDF's election campaign is on the achievements of the Vijayan government and the "negative fall out" of the demonetisation and "flaws" in implementing GST and the alleged communal agenda of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre.

The official said Rs 32.54 crore in cash, out of the total seizures of Rs 152.78 crore, has been released after verification.

National People's Party candidate Marcuise Marak polled 9,558 votes and defeated his nearest rival and Independent candidate Sengbsth R Marak by a margin of 4,860 votes.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar estimates the momentum of 2014 drubbing will continue to damage the Congress in Karnataka as the party has not won a single state it was in power at the time of last general elections.

Khurshid, who was present in the audience at the rally, had recently differed with the party’s move on the impeachment notice against the Chief Justice of India, saying he was “saddened at the developments”. Later, however, he said that the notice’s rejec...

The Congress has been demanding a fair probe into Loya's death with Rahul Gandhi telling the judge's family after the Supreme Court judgement that there is hope and India will not allow judge Loya to be forgotten.

Styled after Ram Navami, Nitish Kumar also declared ‘Janaki Navami’ as a public holiday in Bihar. Sita is also depicted as Janaki in some versions of the Ramayana.

The 41-year-old former Union minister and a close confidante of Congress president Rahul Gandhi criticised the four-year rule of the Narendra Modi government, saying it has failed on multiple counts, like the economic front, the social front as well as in...