Politics

"The state administration is monitoring the situation and keeping a close watch to ensure people do not face any hardship," Fadnavis said.

Tejashwi, who had served as Kumar's deputy in the previous Grand Alliance government in Bihar, had dismissed the gesture as "nothing but a late courtesy call".

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, however, allowed the Gujarat High Court to frame the issues to be decided by it on the petition filed by BJP leader Balwantsinh Rajput challenging Patel's election to the Upper House. Rajput had lost the electi...

The national executive gains added significance, coming days before Nitish Kumar’s July 12 meeting with BJP chief Amit Shah. Both allies have been at loggerheads over seat-sharing and leading the charge in Bihar.

The actor, who is confident of playing a crucial role in government formation in 2019, wished success to fellow actors Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth in their political sojourn.

The home ministry's reaction came after Kejriwal claimed that Lt Governor Anil Baijal had refused to give control of the services department to the city government despite the apex court order.

Ritabrata Bandyopadhyay was expelled from CPI(M) last year over charges of “grave anti-party activities”, including “moral degeneration in relation to women”.

Senior Congress leader and former state minister, HK Patil, has written strongly worded letters to both Kumaraswamy and Siddaramaiah, asking them both to immediately revise budgetary allocations.

The OBC leader, who represented Jamnagar in the Lok Sabha twice, is now the MLA from Khambhalia.

The opposition BJP is in a fix over Kumaraswamy's sops for the castes, including Brahmins.

The issue of appointing a new Kerala BJP chief is likely to dominate discussions during Amit Shah's visit as the post has been vacant since Kummanam Rajasekharan was posted as Mizoram Governor in May.

Seeking to find a common ground on the issue, the commission has written to the seven recognised national and 59 state parties to participate in the meeting on July 7 and 8.

Jaitley in his 21-minute speech said the GST has helped in boosting direct tax collections in the April-June quarter of this fiscal.

The Congress has been holding the public meet inside the Assembly for the last three days in protest after the Monsoon session was concluded in just two sittings.

Observing that the number of Muslim candidates contesting elections was declining, the AIMIM president claimed that Muslim political marginalisation was taking place as per a conspiracy.

The meeting between Amit Shah and BS Yeddyurappa in Ahmedabad had set off speculations that the BJP is trying to “unseat” Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy in Karnataka.