Politics

The Mamta Banerjee government was putting forth its arguments before a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra which is hearing a clutch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme and the enabling 2016...

SAD leader and Rajya Sabha MP, Naresh Gujaral said, “The BJP leadership should be more accommodative of its alliance partners. This is precisely the reason why the TDP and Shiv Sena are unhappy.”

The finance minister also rejected the possibility that the Assembly elections in MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, due at the end of 2018, could instead be postponed and held along with the general elections. He said such a move would need changes to the C...

While withdrawing his Cow Protection Bill 2017 during the private members' business, Swamy said he would like the government to put a voluntary cess to ensure that the cows are looked after they cease to give milk.

Sources in the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) said the CM Chandrababu Naidu was unhappy with the BJP because even after taking “42 trips to Delhi”, special status for Andhra Pradesh was not being granted.

Sonia Gandhi, the Congress Parliamentary Party leader and UPA chairperson, told opposition leaders that they should set aside their differences on state issues and come together on national concerns to take on the ruling BJP.

The death of two-time TMC MP Sultan Ahmed had left the Uluberia parliamentary seat in Howrah vacant, while the death of Congress MLA Madhusudan Ghose necessitated the Noapara Assembly by-poll in North 24 Parganas district.

The constituencies of Kolaras and Mungaoli are going to bypolls on February 24. Both seats, which are part of Shivpuri and Ashoknagar respectively, fall into the Scindia bastion.

The BJP calls itself a party with a difference. In power or without, it tries to do things differently. Once again, as the party approaches the last lap of its first full-majority government in power, the spectre of early polls has risen on the prospects...

The Congress said that some BJP leaders held a secret meeting with Asaduddin Owaisi asking him to field AIMIM candidates in at least 50 Assembly seats in Muslim majority areas to eat into the Congress vote.

P Jayarajan has been something of a thorn in the side of the CPI (M)'s state party leadership controlled by Pinarayi Vijayan and State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan.

DMK working president MK Stalin protested in his constituency, Kolathur, claiming that the stir will only intensify if the Tamil Nadu government doesn't roll back the fare hike.

Shashi Tharoor said the government would would want to give some incentives for investments, tax rebates and sops for farmers.

The BJP, Vijayan alleged, has a record of corruption and was attempting to subvert democracy in the country.

Faridkot MP Jagmeet Singh Brar said that after Mukul Roy resigned from TMC, he got the impression that Mamata Banerjee was too occupied with Bengal.

The Commonwealth Prize winner said that the "master race" that is now trying to be "produced in India" comes from "the ideology of Hitler and Mussolini.