Politics

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday said that Tamil Nadu Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao can use his discretionary powers to decline to swear in Sasikala as Chief Minister in the backdrop of cases against her by the ED and pending Supreme Court ver...

Taking a dig at Congress after Election Comission asked it to complete its organisational elections by June, Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said all was not well in the main opposition party where internal democracy was not effective.

The EC notice also asks Shamli district magistrate to ensure that Rana files a reply by Wednesday.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said the government may take a major step to ban triple talaq after the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

As Uttar Pradesh goes to polls in a few days, BJP’s state chief Keshav Prasad Maurya talks to News18.com on what lies ahead of the SP-Congress alliance, the RLD's confidence to field candidates in all of the state seats and Mayawati’s formula of giving ti...

In a scathing attack, the BJP on Friday termed an "alliance of looters" the electoral understanding between the Congress and Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, which, it said would only harm the interests of nation.

Congress on Thursday demanded that a police case be registered against the Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar for instigating the voters to accept bribe ahead of the February 4 Assembly elections in Goa.

BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday signed off his party's campaign in poll-bound Goa by launching a broadside against Congress and its vice-president Rahul Gandhi who, he said, was "wearing Italian glasses".

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents the Union Budget 2017 on February 1.

Who says elections are fought on social media? This is not the case in Punjab, at least, where 68 percent candidates from four main parties in contest are still alien to this popular medium. Interestingly, 11 percent of them have not even opened an email...

Firebrand BJP leader Yogi Adityanth applauded US President Donald Trump's controversial immigration order and stressed the need for such action in India to contain terrorism.

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday asked the Election Commission to take note of Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal's alleged stay at the residence of an ex-militant in Moga, claiming this has vitiated the poll atmosphere...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday questioned the pre-poll alliance of the Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) and said the tie-up was an "opportunistic alliance to try and grab power".

With the drug menace emerging as a major issue in poll-bound Punjab, an NGO named 'Belan Brigade' is aiming to the rolling pin as a symbol in its fight against the social evil.

A bandh call was given to save Kolar Gold Fields as the place was short listed by Karnataka Compost Development Corporation to set up a waste recycling plant for the waste generated from Bangalore city.

BJP president Amit Shah has made it amply evident, at the core of the strategy would be a focus on slaughterhouses in Western UP, which he said engaged in cattle theft.