Politics

While both Chief Minister Palaniswami and his deputy Panneerselvam criticized the objectionable Facebook post against Dravidian movement stalwart Periyar, their words seemed to disagree with each other.

On Monday, Sitharaman had said in the Lok Sabha, "Post disengagement from the face-off in 2017, troops of both sides have redeployed themselves away from their respective positions at the face-off site. The strength of both sides have been reduced."

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy said the Russian Communist revolutionary was "a terrorist" and questioned if the statue of such a person could be installed in India.

Rajeev Shukla was visiting Patna recently, but kept it under wraps and chose to avoid any media interaction. Party insiders told News18 that in all likelihood, he would be Congress’ Rajya Sabha candidate from Bihar.

Sources close to Upendra say the Kannada actor may name his new political outfit ‘Omkara’.

Coming together of the Jatav and Yadav vote banks will mark a new beginning in UP politics, say experts.

O' Brien said that during her nearly 12-minute conversation, Banerjee told Stalin that a good show by the TMC and the DMK in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu respectively would mean a block of nearly 75 MPs in Parliament.

Both houses of Parliament will meet after a month-long recess in the Budget Session, during which the passage of the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, which seeks confiscation of assets of absconding fraudsters and loan defaulters, and the triple talaq bi...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee agreed with KCR that there is a necessity for “qualitative change in the country’s politics”.

A senior leader of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), an ally of the BJP, said Rio, in his meeting with the Governor, staked claim to form the government in Nagaland saying he has the support of 32 MLAs.

On Saturday during the counting of votes, it became clear that the BJP and its alliance partner, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), had defeated the CPI(M), thus ending the Left Front’s 25-year rule in Tripura.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President claimed that people want change as the present political system had miserably failed and said he was ready to play an active role in bringing that change.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is openly exploring the possibilities of a new front without BJP and Congress. However, the TRS leader also cleared the air about a dispute between him and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A two-thirds majority in Tripura is a morale-booster for the BJP and its cadre in West-Bengal and even in neighbouring Odisha.

Sarma was in the Congress for nearly two decades and a minister in the then Tarun Gogoi-led Congress governments for nearly 15 years before joining the BJP in 2015.

Himanta managed to break the entire top leadership of the Trinamool Congress and the Congress to bring them into the BJP fold. He then went on to build an Assam-style alliance with IPFT (Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura).