Politics

Since the dawn of the coalition era in the national politics, Tamil Nadu has often determined who will rule from the Delhi Durbar.

The CM’s comments came a day after Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) said it will perform shastra puja at 300 locations in the state even though Mamata has asked the police to stop such “weapon worship” programmes.

In an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamana', it said, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe held a big roadshow in Ahmedabad. Such roadshows have their own benefits."

Amit Shah said in the BJP, intra-party polls were held every three years and anyone could become its president as the person was not elected on the basis of which family he belonged to.

The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Kerala government has formed an expert team to enquire into the incident.

Sharad Yadav made the remarks at the third ‘Sanjhi Virasat Bachao’ convention, a platform floated by him to rally anti-BJP forces after the JD(U) under Nitish Kumar joined the NDA.

Tamil Nadu police said they visited Paddington resort where MLAs loyal to Dinakaran are staying in Coorg searching for P. Palaniappan, an MLA and a former minister, who was not there.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi address at the University of California, Berkeley on the subject 'India at 70 — Reflections on the Path Forward' was underway at the time of writing this report.

Senior party leaders including P. Chidambaram, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ambika Soni and Karan Singh are accompanying the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the two-day visit to Jammu.

Politics is not my family background and hence my entry into it was not as per my wish, said Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar while interacting with an audience during an event organised by a local media group.

Ghosh’s comments came after BJP workers were allegedly beaten up by TMC workers in South Kolkata. The BJP claimed that instead of taking action against the accused, the police arrested BJP supporters.

Joint Registrar Pankaj Gupta directed Kejriwal, who was earlier slapped with Rs 10,000 as cost, to deposit Rs 5,000 in the 'Army Welfare Fund Battle Casualties'.

Suresh Prabhu was moved out of the important railway ministry and was handed over the commerce and industry portfolio in the Cabinet recast on Sunday.

The exercise sends all kinds of messages other than what was expected; that it will indicate, substantially, the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah strategy for the next general elections.

Sitharaman is also seen to have served well the party as its spokesperson. She was among the primary spokespersons of the party, under Ravi Shankar Prasad, before being sworn in as the MoS.

Piyush Goyal has been instrumental in turning around the state-owned Coal India, improved power generation capacity, particularly in renewable sector.