Politics

Congress leader Sachin Sawant claimed that the salt pan land was cleared by none other than Chandrakant Patil, who was then a cabinet minister in the BJP government and who is the BJP state president at present.

Some U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Thursday blamed Tuesday's election losses on colleagues who embraced defunding police departments and "socialist" policies, according to sources familiar with a phone call they held.

Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday had said the government was considering a law against religious conversion for the sake of marriage.

Oil prices fell on Thursday as Democrat Joe Biden edged closer to the White House in a nailbiting U.S. presidential election, though doubts remain over further huge stimulus to bolster the ecomony in the face of the coronavirus crisis.

Train services have remained suspended for over a month in the state due to agitation by farmer groups against three farm-related laws passed by Parliament recently.

Voters have agreed to strip the words and Providence Plantations from Rhode Islands formal name, approving a statewide referendum that had been revived amid the nations reckoning with racial injustice.

U.S. futures rose and Asia markets were mostly higher on Wednesday as investors worldwide awaited the results from the U.S. presidential election.

Wall Street's main indexes jumped on Tuesday as investors bet that one of the country's most divisive presidential races could end with a clear victory for Democratic nominee Joe Biden and a swift deal on more fiscal stimulus.

PM Modi said that unlike the NDA, Congress had not delivered on even one of their poll promises whether it was giving One Rank One Pension or the question of rescuing small traders from a web of complicated tax structure.

The major Gurjar organisation started the agitation over reservation on Sunday, a day after community leaders held talks with the Rajasthan government and reached a consensus on 14 points.

He also pointed out the diplomatic acumen of Sardar Patel seen in his ability to convince almost all princely states to merge with the exception of Junagarh, Hyderabad and Tripura.

"Ambulance will be arranged to ferry voters who are Covid positive from hospitals or their home to the nearest polling station in the RR Nagar (Rajarajeshwarinagar) assembly segment in Bengaluru and Sira assembly seat in Tumakuru district on November 3,"...

The Delhi government's principal secretary, home, told the Legislative Assembly's minority welfare committee on Thursday that opinion of the law department would be sought over the police's refusal to provide copies of FIRs related with riots to the panel...

Hitting out at the Samajwadi Party, the BSP chief said, "The Samajwadi Party has once again shown their true anti-Dalit face by conspiring to stop the BSP candidate, they were not successful and hence started alleging that the BSP was allying with BJP to...

The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday people aboard a boat carrying its aid in Myanmar's restive Rakhine State had been injured in an incident in which the army said it was returning fire from insurgents.

The chief executives of Facebook, Twitter and Google will defend a law protecting internet companies before a Senate panel on Wednesday, a topic that has split U.S. lawmakers on ways to hold Big Tech accountable for how they moderate content on their plat...