Politics

While Twitter had taken down one of his controversial tweets on Friday following directions of the EC, an FIR was lodged against him under section 125 of the Representation of the People Act dealing with creating enmity among classes.

Uddhav Thackeray, whose party espoused Hindutva from early on, ditched the BJP after the Assembly polls last year and formed government with the help of the Congress and the NCP.

Tamil Nadu Minister for Co-operation, Sellur K Raju was responding to reporters in Madurai on the controversy over actor Rajinikanth's recent comments at the 50th anniversary function of Tamil magazine 'Thuglak' about a rally in Salem in Tamil Nadu led by...

With the TDP members staying away from the Assembly proceedings, the ruling YSRCP MLAs came down heavily on Council Chairman and LoP in the Council over the manner in which two vital bills were referred to a select committee.

HD Deve Gowda also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of fulfilling the 'long standing anti-Muslim agenda' of Jana Sangh and Hindu Mahasabha, and leading the country to the margins of danger.

Mehbooba Mufti was commenting on Union Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's visit to Baramulla in north Kashmir.

According to the police few BJP activists had put up inflammatory and derogatory posters against Kanhaiya Kumar, who is scheduled to address a rally in in the Titagarh area of West Bengal's 24 Parganas district later in the evening.

In his letter, Nitish Kumar expressed fears of 'deterioration of health' of Sadhvi Padmavati - who hails from his native district of Nalanda, and has been living in Haridwar without food since December 15 last year.

Addressing a rally in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Rajnath SIngh also questioned those opposing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and said the government has not discussed it.

Vashishtha Narayan Singh, a Rajya Sabha member and the head of the JD(U)'s state unit, asserted that the decision to align with the BJP was taken after 'due deliberation'.

Addressing a press conference, Ranbir Singh, Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi, said a total of 228 FIRs have been registered over poll code violations of which 13 -- the maximum on a political party was against the AAP.

Amit Shah had on Tuesday dared, besides Mayawati, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav to a debate with him on CAA on a public platform.

Najeeb Jung, Delhi’s former L-G and ex-vice chancellor of Jamia university, says the central government cannot afford to be seen as anti-minorities today.

The party has planned to raise national issues such as the Citizenship Amendment Act, the violence over it, and the abrogation of Article 370; it will also try to expose the 'failures' of the ruling AAP, said a senior Delhi BJP leader.

The three suspended from the party are R Manjunath, A Kenche Gowda and MG Balaram.

The SP chief said Shah's address in Lucknow "showed his frustration" over this and his party would not let the BJP-RSS agenda run in the country.