Politics

Has former BJP General Secretary Sanjay Joshi patched up his differences with Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Joshi has been praising Modi over Twitter on the demonetisation drive, and now a new poster — for an Ayurveda expo — has surfaced in Ahmedabad that...

Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh on Thursday dismissed the SAD's 'Paani Bachao, Punjab Bachao' rally at Moga as a desperate "Badal bachao" cry from a party that had lost "all credibility in the state due to its 10 years of misrule".

Both Gujarat and Tamil Nadu have led the country in embracing economic reforms and aggressively pushed pro-market policies. But results have been quite different for the two. The southern state has performed better than Gujarat in lowering poverty, improv...

Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh on Thursday challenged Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to contest the Lok Sabha by-election from Amritsar, saying let this bypoll be a referendum on the Narendra Modi governments demonetisation move.

He said Kejriwal had no moral right to occupy the Chief Minister's chair he got with the support of auto-rickshaw drivers.

Congress on Tuesday termed the passage of a bill that seeks to tax money deposited in banks post demonetisation without any discussion in Lok Sabha as "undemocratic and a complete affront" to the authority of India's parliament and constitution and "trave...

"Amarinder Singh and the Badals have looted Punjab during the last 15 years and now the time is ripe to get rid of them and the people of Punjab are waiting eagerly (for it)," Kejriwal said at a rally in Mukerian.

BJP on Monday emerged as a major gainer in the first phase of municipal council polls winning 39 municipal chief's posts of the 147 urban local bodies, dealing a blow to Congress and NCP in the keenly fought elections, whose campaign centred around issues...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's demonetisation move is a "courageous" experiment to eliminate black money, corruption and counterfeit currency.

The faceoff between the government and Opposition over demonetisation is likely to worsen on Wednesday when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee leads a protest at the Gandhi Statue in Parliament complex.

Prime Minister told the visiting MPs that had late Sena supremo Bal Thackeray been alive, he would have supported the demonetisation move, a Sena source said.

BJP's victory in bypolls is a clear indication that people are fully supporting the decision to demonetise Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes, said Assam CM.

Promulgation of a stringent liquor law coupled with a string of new development initiatives to provide power, toilets and drinking water to every household were the highights of the annual report card released by the Nitish Kumar government on the complet...

Punjab Congress Chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday said the party will give 50 lakh smart phones with one year of free data and calling to the youth in the state, to empower them and connect them digitally, once it comes to power.

The BJP-led NDA released a report card on the completion of one year of the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar and said the dispensation has proved to be a big "failure" on all fronts, especially so on law and order.

Criticising the Centre for "foisting crisis" on farmers, who have been at the receiving end of nature's wrath for consecutive years, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said the "ill-planned" demonetisation could have an adverse impact o...