Politics

A self-proclaimed 'Gujjar Imam', Avtar Singh Bhadana has been a fascinating political player.

Alleging that the Modi government purchased Rafale fighter jets at an increased price, Kejriwal accused the prime minister of directly responsible for price escalation.

Aam Aadmi Party hosted the 'Tanashahi Hatao, Loktantra Bachao' rally, in which opposition leaders including Arvind Kejriwal, Mamata Banerjee and N Chandrababu Naidu mounted a blistering attack on the BJP government.

Earlier, at the opposition rally at Jantar Mantar, Mamata made it clear that she was willing to fight alongside the Left and the Congress against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Democracy has become 'Namocracy' and the situation in the country is worse than emergency, alleged Mamata at the mega rally organised by the AAP.

The Union minister said, It cannot be that the Supreme Court is wrong, the CAG is wrong and only the dynast is right.

Banerjee, a strident critic of Prime Minister Modi, accused the Centre of trying to insult the people of the country in the name of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

With no conclusive dialogue with the Rajasthan government, Gujjars continued their protest on the railway track in Sawai Madhopur along with several other national and state highways.

Attacking the opposition parties which were trying to forge an alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha election to take on Modi, the BJP President said the "mahagathbandhan" (grand alliance) was made up of only state-level leaders and that it will not affect BJP'...

Speaking to News18, DMDK deputy general secretary Sudhish said the alliance will be finalised once Vijayakanth returned from a trip abroad in two weeks.

Rajnath Singh said the defence deal strengthened the Indian Air Force, which had been demanding fighter jets for 30 years. The prime minister finalised the Rafale deal to strengthen India's security.

Mir said there was nothing disrespectful in seeking the return of mortal remains of Guru and Bhat as in the past killers of elected prime minister were spared the gallows by commuting their death sentence.

Parrikar, who is suffering from a pancreatic ailment, was recently discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.

Rahul Gandhi launched a fresh broadside against the government on the Rafale deal following a newspaper that the Defence ministry raised strong objections to "parallel discussions" conducted by the PMO.

Singh's reaction came after a recent media report alleged that a few leaders of the UPA-II dispensation tried to establish a false narrative that the Army in 2011-12, then headed by him, was planning a "coup" to usurp the then Manmohan Singh government.

The annual budget was presented by state Finance Minister Rajesh Agarwal. It is 12 per cent higher than the previous year's budget of Rs. 4,28,384.52 crore.