Politics

With 2019 state Assembly election just a year away, the emotive issue of special status has become the biggest political agenda.

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan, Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) leader Upendra Kushwaha and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) want BJP to spare 20 of the 40 Parliamentary seats for them.

The case was filed based on a complaint from a designated 'flying squad officer' on election duty of Chitradurga Assembly Constituency, T Jayanth.

Leaders of various parties on Thursday held hectic parleys over moving the motion, the first one to be ever moved against a sitting chief justice.

The home department, headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, on Wednesday allotted Rs 2, 13,700 for repairing Gudri mosque and Jiaul-Ulum Madrassa which, as the order reads, were damaged in the recent communal violence.

Justice AK Pathak refused to pass any interim stay order in view of a Supreme Court direction that such matters needed to be decided within a year.

Various Dalit organisations had called for a nation-wide shutdown or a 'Bharat Bandh' to protest against the Supreme Court ruling. The court had, on March 20, introduced the provision of anticipatory bail in the act while directing there would be no autom...

The Dalit leader, who is also the Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment, appealed to the community to maintain peace and said the Centre was committed to protecting their rights.

Top brass of the BJP, which considers the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as its ideological mentor, has often talked about a 'Congress-free India'.

Recalling the statements of BJP president Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during their visits to Karnataka that they would ban cow slaughter in the state after coming to power, Ramalinga Reddy said killing of any animal was not...

Gaurav Chaudhary, the farmer from Meerut district, said some farmers in his Jamalpur village had benefited from the crop loan waiver scheme announced by the state government.

Stating firmly that rallying with arms is not a part of Bengal's culture, Mamata Banerjee instructed the state administration to take "strong action" against those who took out rallies with arms on occasion of Ram Navami, defying the state's directive.

The second half of the Budget session of Parliament has been a complete washout since commencement with protests from Congress, AIADMK, TDP and YSR Congress Party on various issues stalling the proceedings.

Raja Bhaiya had met Yadav before the polls and assured him that he would vote for SP-Bahujan Samaj Party combine in the polls. However, after voting, he declared that his vote went in favour of the BJP.

In a photo-finish to the keenly watched Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP on Friday took a sweet revenge on the opposition by ensuring victory of all its nine candidates, days after it lost two crucial seats in the Lok Sabha bypolls in the s...

Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, CPI(M)’s state secretary, said that the party would only contest from 100-150 seats in 2019 and would join hands with other regional parties.