Politics

Left parties on Sunday announced its list of candidates for 105 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.

Shiv Sena is "likely" to go it alone in the upcoming city civic body polls, party sources said on Sunday, even as it formally begins talks on alliance with BJP on Monday.

Portraying Odisha as a victim of Central neglect and conspiracy, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday said though the state was denied rights on rivers, it will fight to achieve the desired results.

As elections to the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and nine other municipal corporations in Maharashtra are fast approaching, saffron allies, Shiv Sena and BJP, appear to be engaged in a poster war.

BJP on Saturday claimed that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal's programmes in Punjab have turned into a flop show as his party has lost people's faith.

AAP on Thursday said the re-induction of former MLA Babush Monserrate and joining of NCP legislator Churchill Alemao into Congress ahead of February 4 assembly polls in Goa showed the party's "bankruptcy of leadership".

Politics in West Bengal has been heating up with growing animosity between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP. BJP’s West Bengal secretary Rahul Sinha spoke to News18’s Debayan Roy on Mamata Banerjee’s ‘communal politics’, Muslims in the state supp...

Attacking Rahul Gandhi over his remarks against Narendra Modi, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Thursday said his comments show that he is "worried" about the Prime Minister's growing popularity and "desperately" looking to save his political legacy.

The Supreme Court on Monday fixed for final hearing BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's plea challenging the constitutional validity of certain IPC provisions on hate speech and writing.

Accusing the Akali Dal-BJP government of "unprecedented mismanagement" of Punjab, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday urged voters to return the Congress to power in the state.

Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday once again reposed his trust in his son and party's youth icon Akhilesh Yadav.

Taking its fight against BJP to newer pastures, Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejriwal will "actively campaign" against the saffron party in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, though it will not enter the electoral arena.

Two months after the demonetisation drive began, former Union finance minister P Chidambaram tells News18's Pallavi Ghosh that the government has no business controlling the supply of money. He is "disappointed" that the RBI, under Urjit Patel, "compromis...

The two-day national executive of the BJP beginning Friday in Delhi will pass a resolution on economy with special emphasis on the impact of demonetisation in weeding out black money and to sharpen attack on the Opposition on the issue.

Meanwhile, the West Bengal BJP leaders will meet home minister Rajnath Singh today to apprise him of the situation in the state.

Congress-led UDF is not able to perform the role of Opposition, this is the criticism from within the Congress party and the UDF coalition.