With the BJP racing ahead in Haryana as per the early trends, AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the “biggest lesson” of the poll results is that one should never be “overconfident” in the…
As Jammu and Kashmir returns to assembly elections after a decade, the Congress-National Conference (NC) coalition is set to edge out the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), indicating a significant shift…
The National Conference-Congress alliance is likely to form government in Jammu and Kashmir with poll trends on Tuesday showing the combine ahead in 51 of the 90 seats while the BJP was leading in…
It has been a day full of surprises.
After trailing in early leads in Haryana, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged third-time lucky — it is set for a big win in the Hindi heartland state.
In…
Political parties and leaders wait with bated breath for the Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir Assembly poll results on Tuesday, with the ruling BJP expecting to retain Haryana for a third term, and the…
Exit polls released on Saturday predicted that the Congress party is likely to form the government in Haryana, while in Jammu and Kashmir, neither the BJP nor Congress cappears to have secured a…
Political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor on Wednesday announced the launch of his political outfit Jan Suraaj Party (JSP), a much-anticipated move by which he hopes to take the political…
As Jammu & Kashmir votes for the second round of the three-phase Assembly elections, there’s a heightened sense of relief, optimism and hopefulness. The last time the Assembly elections were held in…
Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Friday said that his ministry has sought for a detailed report from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naida on allegations of use of “beef tallow”, “lard”…
The controversy erupted over the alleged use of substandard ingredients and animal fat in the preparation of the world-renowned Tirupati Laddu with the ruling Telugu Desam Party on Thursday claiming…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday, addressed an election rally in Srinagar where he accused “three families” – Congress, National Conference (NC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of…
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has resigned as the Chief Minister of Delhi.
Kejriwal reached Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena’s residence on Tuesday afternoon and submitted him…
Delhi has a new chief minister in Aam Aadmi Party’s Atishi. After announcing on Sunday that he would be stepping down, Arvind Kejriwal proposed the Delhi minister’s name as his successor in a meeting…
AAP national convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal chaired a ‘Politics Affairs Committee’ (PAC) meeting on Monday to discuss the appointment of a new Chief Minister.
Senior leaders, including cabinet…
Delhi Chief Minister and the supremo of the Aam Aadmi Party, Arvind Kejriwal, announced that he is going to resign from the chief ministerial post in two days. The announcement came days after he was…
A day after he walked out of Tihar jail on bail, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday asserted Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will continue to function like before and no work of the people of Delhi…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that terrorism is breathing its “last breath” in Jammu and Kashmir as a possible new leadership under the BJP will herald safety and security in the…
The door-to-door canvassing has returned to the Kashmir Valley for the first time since the 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election — described generally by political observers as heavily…
Arvind Kejriwal will finally step out of jail on Thursday, six months after he was arrested in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, only freed briefly during the Lok Sabha elections. While AAP…
Days after his remark on reservation stirred controversy, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi clarified his statement saying that what he meant was that the Congress Party would increase the cap on…
In the first show of force in Jammu and Kashmir since 1987, the outlawed Jamaat-e-Islami held an election rally for the first time on Sunday.
As the Jamaat stands proscribed, it has indirectly fielded…
The Congress on Sunday released a list of nine candidates for the Haryana Assembly polls, fielding Brijendra Singh from Uchana Kalan and Mohit Grover from Gurugram.
The party has fielded Ashok Arora…
A scenic beauty par excellence, Jammu and Kashmir has been a special story in India, mostly for political reasons. It goes to the polls after 10 years in three phases on September 18, 25 and October…
Ahead of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Army is seeking to beef up border security and improve the counter-terrorism grid.
There has been surge in terrorist attacks in Jammu…
In an apparent softening of stand on caste census, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has said the government may collect caste-related data if required.
Over the past one year, the caste census…
An Enforcement Directorate (ED) team has arrived at the home of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan’s residence on Monday morning in connection with a money laundering case.
Khan took to X and…
The Dushyant Chautala-led Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) and Chandrashekhar Azad’s Azad Samaj Party (ASP) has forged and alliance for the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections.
Announcing the alliance…
With eyes at securing a majority in the Upper House, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has named nine candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls.
While the names released on Tuesday include some…
Rajya Sabha Speaker Jagdeep Dhankar and Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan had a heated exchange in the upper house on Friday leading to a walkout by the Opposition.
The actress-turned-politician…
After his defeat in the Lok Sabha election to a newbie, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is officially on his way out from the West Bengal Congress presidency. The stalwart lost his Bahrampur seat to TMC’s…
After three UPSC aspirants tragically lost their lives in a flooded basement at the Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar, Delhi Minister Atishi on Wednesday announced that the AAP…
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea seeking a high-level committee probe on the coaching centre mishap that killed three UPSC aspirants in Old Rajinder Nagar.
The plea, which will be…
The INDIA bloc of opposition parties will hold a rally on July 30 at Jantar Mantar here to raise the issue of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s declining health inside Tihar jail, the AAP said…
The Bharatiya Janata Party has announced new state chiefs for Bihar and Rajasthan. With this, the party has also appointed new state in-charges and co-in-charges. The BJP has appointed Rajya Sabha MP,…
There is unlikely to be any shift in India-US policy and strategy under a Harris administration, the head of a top India-centric American trade and strategic advocacy group said Tuesday, noting that…
Facing rebellion in his party, Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday dissolved its core committee, the outfit’s highest decision-making body.
Rebel Akali leader Gurpartap Singh…
In a move that has attracted jibes from across the spectrum, the Kerala government has appointed a senior IAS officer as ‘Foreign Secretary’.
The Kerala government of Communist Party of India-Marxist…
In line with the preparations for the state assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday launched “Kejriwal Ki 5 Guarantee” for Haryana.
Prominent leaders of the party, including Delhi Chief…
NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said a decision on the potential entry of any leader in his party will be a collective one, refusing to confirm whether Ajit Pawar will be accommodated if he…
Maharashtra’s ruling Mahayuti alliance is glaring at more trouble as 28 leaders from Ajit Pawar’s NCP joined his uncle Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party on Wednesday.
The defection comes amid…
In the lead-up to the 2014 general elections in India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) explored radical tax reforms, including the abolition of income, sales, and excise taxes.
This consideration…
Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) chief Mukesh Sahani’s father Jitan Sahani was killed at his residence in Bihar’s Darbhanga. According to the local police, who reached the spot, the incident happened…
In the K Armstrong murder case, K Thiruvengadam, 33, was one of 11 the accused.
In a Sunday “encounter” in Chennai, the police fatally shot a 33-year-old man who was one of the defendants in the…
The INDIA bloc has won eight of 13 Assembly seats in the bypoll elections, giving the ruling BJP-led NDA a tough fight.
Making her poll debut, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu’s…
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur has won the Dehra Assembly seat while Aam Aadmi Party’s Mohinder Bhagat emerged victorious from Punjab’s West…
In a surprising turn of events, the NDA-led Mahayuti alliance secured a decisive victory in the recent Maharashtra biennial legislative council elections, winning all nine seats it contested out of…
After sweeping the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls, winning nine out of 11 seats, the Mahayuti alliance leaders celebrated by showing the victory sign. Supporters of Pankaja Munde, the daughter…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the alleged…
Assam is no stranger to floods, political blame games during floods, or the flood-fuelled corruption that rages like a fearsome river in spate.
On Monday, Leader of Opposition and Congress leader…
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Supremo Mayawati on Sunday paid floral tribute to slain party’s Tamil Nadu Chief, K Armstrong, at Corporation School Ground in Chennai and urged the state government to refer…
Rahul Gandhi, leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, on Friday criticized administrative lapses in the Hathras stampede incident that resulted in over 100 fatalities. However, he refrained from…
The Labour party is inching closer to a historic win in the UK elections, dethroning Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party which has been in power for 14 years. The Centre-Left Labour party leader Keir…
Leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) L.K. Advani, and Benazir Bhutto had an extraordinary bond because Sindh was the duo birthplace.
“When she first met me…
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will hold a protest across the country on June 29 against the arrest of party national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the CBI.
A meeting of senior AAP…
Following criticism from opposition MPs regarding its necessity in a democracy and charges by the BJP of demeaning Indian culture, the’sengol’ placed beside the Speaker’s chair in the Lok Sabha has…
After much hype and hoopla, the 18th Lok Sabha finally has a Speaker in Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Om Birla. The Kota MP beat out the INDI Alliance’s candidate K Suresh through a voice vote,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will move the motion today in the Lok Sabha to choose Om Birla as the Speaker of the lower house amid a tussle for the post with the opposition’s INDIA bloc.
In today’s…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) questioned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the Tihar Jail on Tuesday night in connection with the alleged excise policy scam ahead of the Supreme…
Ahead of the elections for the post of Lok Sabha speaker, the Congress party has issued a three-line whip to its MPs to be present in Parliament tomorrow from 11 a.m. onwards, an official statement by…
India is marking the 49th anniversary of the Emergency imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi-led Congress government on June 25, 1975. PM Narendra Modi slammed the grand old party and…