Politics

DMK supremo M Karunanidhi has said his son Stalin has arduously worked his way up to be the second-in command in the party, virtually ruling out any possibility of his estranged Madurai-based son Alagiri becoming the dravidian party's head in the future.

Back in the year 2000, Akhilesh, in his mid-20s, was gearing up to test the political waters as a Samajwadi Party candidate in the Lok Sabha bypoll to the Kannauj seat. His father, party president Mulayam Singh, was accused of nepotism and questions were...

On the day she had broken her fast, she had let known her desire to form a political party to contest the Assembly election.

Much ahead of the official announcement of the poll dates, Uttar Pradesh is well and truly in election mode. And, after a long hiatus, Ram Temple is back in political discourse.

Amid internal political sparring, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's loyalist Kiranmoy Nanda on Monday declared that Akhilesh is and will be the CM face of SP in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled for 2017.

"They raise issues like Article 370 and triple talaq just make it a political agenda. We are not going to get into this trap of political agenda," he added.

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Monday said the Tamil Nadu government "lacked proper direction" with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa still in hospital and urged the Governor and the Centre to take appropriate action.

The sources said media reports have "tried to create an impression, by selective misquoting, that the disability pensions have been slashed."

Party spokespersons however refused to either back the surprising claim or distance themselves from the hoarding, saying they "don't want to politicise" the surgical strikes.

Earlier on Friday, Shah took potshots at Kejriwal, saying he was the first one to cast doubts over the occurrence of surgical strikes and was trending on Twitter in Pakistan.

"It has affected 37 lakh farmers whose 'pattadar' passbooks are with the banks. Three lakh women farmers had mortgaged their gold with the banks," Reddy claimed.

Kejriwal was in Bikaner, 350 km from here, to attend a condolence meeting at the home of a local leader of his Aam Aadmi Party.

Opposition BJP on Saturday asked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to reconsider the government's decision to implement the new liquor law having same provisions as the one scrapped by Patna High Court and suggested convening of an all-party meeting to di...

The Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha and ABVP dominated the Allahabad University Students Union polls, with the RSS' students wing bagging the President's post.

Shahabuddin gave them the slip and pillion rode a motorcycle with a helmet on his head to the Siwan court and surrendered.

He also held a road show in the run-up to the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh covering major parts of the state capital.