Politics

The former J-K chief minister was reacting to a government order banning the movement of civilian vehicles on the 300-km long highway on Sundays and Wednesdays between 4 am and 5 pm to ensure safe passage of security forces' vehicles

The updated list of actors-turned-politicians has a new entrant in Urmila Matondkar who has been fielded by the Congress from Mumbai North constituency. Matondkar has been pitted against sitting BJP MP Gopal Chinnayya Shetty, a strongman in the region, wh...

PM Modi cited the Congress manifesto for the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, and said it had promised that every house would have electricity by 2009, but it wasn't fulfilled 'even in 10 years'.

PM Modi told a rally in Hyderabad that he had to face criticism for bringing a bill in Parliament to protect the country's 'sisters and daughters' from the 'repressive tradition' of triple talaq.

Addressing a poll rally in Tuticorin, Amit Shah also hit out at National Conference leader Omar Abudullah for his 'PM for Jammu & Kashmir,' line, and asked the people whether they supported the Kashmir leader's remarks.

TRS working president KT Rama Rao said that with leaders like Sunita Laxmareddy quitting the Congress, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the grand old party has also come to be a thing of the past in Telangana.

Rambhual Nishad, the SP candidate from Gorakhpur, has also accused Nishad party chief Sanjay Nishad of taking donations from people in the promise of jobs when he is elected to power.

Fewer number of seats and a comparatively smaller geographical area makes Bundelkhand (UP) a perfect case for a one-way swing. Therefore, it shouldn’t be surprising that BJP’s 2014 sweep in the region was not a one-off incident.

Rahul Gandhi has been thrice elected the member of parliament from Amethi, considered the Congress bastion in 2004, 2009 and 2014.

The Congress has announced that Rahul Gandhi would be contesting the elections from the Wayanad parliamentary constituency in Kerala, besides Amethi.

Pointing at an intelligence failure, Congress leader Kapil Sibal questioned how RDX was brought inside India in large quantities for the Pulwama attack.

Cautioning the people against the habit of wanting to vote for the winning candidate, Bhushan said such a voting pattern was not good for democracy as it denied the best candidate from winning on merits.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi had on Monday announced that Rs 72,000 per year will be given as minimum income to 5 crore poor families if his party is voted to power in Lok Sabha polls, asserting that it would be a 'final assault' on poverty.

Considering the situation, the grand old party's top brass has rushed a three-member team, including KC Venugopal, to Mumbai to hold talks with Ashok and Prithviraj Chavan and Sushilkumar Shinde.

Urmila's political and social conviction, which Congress hopes will yield benefits, faces political opposition from five sitting MLAs of the BJP-Shiv Sena camp in Mumbai North.

The AAP said that the EC has given specific instructions for not using photographs of defence personnel and also asked parties not to make any reference to the Armed Forces during the political campaign, doing which would be seen as a violation of the pol...