Politics

Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh on Sunday said he will request Congress President Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Vadra Gandhi to campaign ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the state.

Speaking at a meeting of the party's youth wing held at Paschim Medinipore district's Jhargram on Saturday, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said Banerjee has lost her mind and is crying for losing thousand of crores of rupees in the recent demoneti...

With its lawmaker Bhagwant Mann suspended for the remainder of the Winter Session, AAP on Friday claimed the move appeared to be pre-planned with MPs belonging to BJP, Shiromani Akali Dal and Congress coming together to award the stringent punishment.

Blaming the government for the continued disruption in Parliament, Congress on Thursday said it was willing to consider the ruling party's proposal to break the logjam but accused the treasury benches of failing to come up with any suggestion to ensure sm...

"BJP welcomes the court's decision and also warns those political parties who have supported triple talaq for their political expediency. Time has come for them to desist from dividing the society in the name of religion.

Opposition leaders on Thursday observed a 'Black Day' in Parliament premises to mark one month of the announcement of demonetisation, with Rahul Gandhi launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his "foolish decision" has "devasta...

Singh, who is the Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, had recently said that after 'notebandi' (demonetisation), there is an urgent need to make laws for 'nasbandi' in the country.

Miffed over the appointment of Dilraj Kaur as the member secretary of DCW, which the Lt Governor's office has termed as "temporary", Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday hit out at Najeeb Jung, likening him to Hitler.

Both J Jayalalithaa and he political mentor MG Ramachandran (MGR) honed their public image on the silver screen and transferred it smoothly on to politics.

Amid indications that SP leader and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is warming up to the idea of an alliance with Congress, UP PCC President Raj Babbar on Monday said his party will contest alone in the state and described such talks as "hypothetical".

Stepping up its attack on the ruling BJD in Odisha ahead of panchayat polls in the state, BJP on Sunday accused Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of creating an "Emergency like" situation wherein opposition workers are "arrested" before his visit to any place...

Telangana state Congress on Friday dubbed the first half of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi-led government in the state as "disappointing" and alleged it failed to fulfil even a single promise made to the people during 2014 elections.

Remember the Chief Minister who sat on a dharna against the police force she herself commanded, in her own constituency? Yes it was Mamata Banerjee. That was in 2011 when she had just become the CM, but hadn't moved on from the 'opposition in chief' mode.

After the backlash, Omar's aide Tanveer Sadiq said the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister only meant that the "chest-thumping" of the ministers has not helped India and that Pakistan continued to provoke.

A powerful lobby of upper caste Bihar BJP leaders is disappointed over the appointment of OBC leader Nityanand Rai on Wednesday as the state unit chief.

Congress on Tuesday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi provide details of bank transactions of BJP and its MPs made before November 8 when the demonetisation move was announced if he was "really serious" on the issue.