Politics

Stressing that the existence of the party was based on its ideology, Chirag Paswan said the LJP always stood with the Dalits, the minorities, the backward and the poor.

Though RSS general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi said he welcomed Ravi Shankar's efforts at negotiations, he pointed out that there were different groups in society with varied outlooks and to build a consensus among them would be difficult.

Governor Tathagata Roy also administered the oath of office to BJP leader Jishnu Deb Burman as the deputy chief minister along with seven other ministers, including IPFT chief N C Debbarma.

Ridiculing Bharatiya Janata Party's target of unseating the Trinamool to capture power in Bengal, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said it would remain a "dream".

Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar on Thursday said the Centre had been ready for discussion on the banking irregularities in both Houses of parliament from day one, but the Congress kept changing its stand and sought debates under differen...

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav referred allotment of a bungalow and Z Plus security cover to sharpen his attack saying Nitish has forgotten the long due demand for his personal gains.

BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao said the Modi dispensation worked to ensure that Andhra Pradesh got full resources in infrastructure and industrial sector after the bifurcation of the state.

The strong performance by the opposition party comes days after it scored emphatic victories in the bypolls to two parliamentary and an assembly constituency.

A row had erupted in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday over Raja's remarks indicating that statues of Periyar could be pulled down next after a Lenin statue was razed in Tripura following the BJP's victory there.

The actor made the remarks in his address at a college function here after unveiling a statue of late chief minister and AIADMK founder M G Ramachandran.

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Raj Babbar took a jibe at the Bahujan Samaj Party-Samajwadi Party understanding for the upcoming by-elections, saying it is ‘swarthbandhan’, or an 'alliance of greed'.

The tussle is more intense in the Congress which is likely to get one out of the five seats that will get vacated. Those completing their terms in the Upper House of Parliament include L Ganeshan, Union ministers Prakash Javadekar, Thawarchand Gehlot and...

Breaking his silence on the defeat in three northeast states, Rahul Gandhi said the Congress was committed to winning back the people's trust and hit out at the BJP, accusing it of "usurping" power through proxy in Meghalaya.

Meghalaya threw up a fractured mandate on Saturday with the ruling Congress emerging as the largest party, marginally ahead of its rival, the NPP, an ally of the BJP at the Centre and in Manipur.

Party leaders supporting Sitaram Yechury's line will now strongly push for having an understanding with all anti-BJP forces as against Karat's policy of keeping a distance.

For Manik Sarkar and Tripura, that moment has come. It has been a 20-year-long journey as the Chief Minister. When he was first sworn-in, the new millennium had not begun, incoming calls on mobile phones were charged at Rs 16 per minute, India was not a n...