Politics

YSR Congress leaders said Chandrababu Naidu's failure to respond to Kodela Siva Prasada Rao’s calls had humiliated the senior party leader, driving the Speaker to "suicide".

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's visit, third in less than two months, comes nearly two weeks after Bhagwat visit Kolkata on August 31. Earlier, he was in the city on August 1.

Addressing a meeting of BJP activists here, Nadda explained the process of nullifying Articles 370 and 35 A which granted special rights to residents of Jammu and Kashmir.

BJP has announced that it will observe a 'Seva Saptah' (week of service) from September 14 to 20 to mark the prime minister's birthday on September 17.

The meeting was attended by former prime minister Manmohan Singh, AICC general secretaries and in-charges of various states and Congress Legislative Party leaders, among others.

Prasad said by scrapping the special status, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown 'immense courage and corrected that historical wrong.'

The speaker had requested that being the single largest opposition party, Hooda be granted the status as he had unanimously been elected the leader of the Congress Legislative Party.

Joy Banerjee’s statement came after both Sovan Chatterjee and Baishaki Bandyopadhyay, who joined the saffron party on August 15, expressed their desire to quit the party following a meeting between state party president Dilip Ghosh and TMC MLA actor Debos...

After the Aam Aadmi Party's defeat in the Lok Sabha polls, Lamba had sought accountability from party chief Arvind Kejriwal following which she was removed from the official WhatsApp group of its lawmakers.

Amit, son of former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi, is lodged in Gaurela sub-jail in Bilaspur district.

Both the candidates — BJP's Ojaswi Mandavi and Congress leader Devti Karma — are widows of senior leaders of their respective parties and were killed in separate Maoist attacks.

Maharashtra minister Jaykumar Rawal on Tuesday said the state government plans to build two tourist resorts in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh's Leh.

According to observers, Scindia has the backing of enough MLAs and ministers to create trouble for the Kamal Nath government whose wafer-thin majority in the 230-member House is due to the support of SP, BSP and Independent MLAs.

A formal announcement of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi's new role in Uttar Pradesh will be made soon, sources said.

Srinagar Mayor Junaid Mattu also dismissed the claims of the Centre that the situation in the Valley was 'normal', saying the 'absence of dead bodies' could not be the 'new definition of normalcy'.

Party vice-president and convener of the membership drive programme, Debiprasad Mishra, said the BJD presently has 47 lakh primary members and efforts are on to increase it to one crore by October end.