Politics

Minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday announced the scrapping of the subsidy for Haj from this year, four years ahead of a deadline suggested by the apex court in a 2012 order.

Prakash Raj criticised the Uttara Kannada MP and Union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde in his speech which did not go down well with the BJP Yuva Morcha.

Senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor, Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani, quota agitation spearhead Hardik Patel, and MP and farmers' leader Raju Shetti are also likely to attend the 'Samvidhan Bachao' march, one of its organisers s...

The posters go on to say that Rahul Gandhi will usher in Rahul Raj (Ram Rajya) in the country and will end the "misrule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)" in 2019.

The order was passed in the wake of the Bengal government's appeal against the court's Single Bench order which previously awarded conditional permission to the rally after setting aside the state police's refusal to allow it.

Raja claims that the CAG report was faulty and a “blatant lie,” that Rai was serving “ulterior motives” and that his report was “mere trash, fit for the dustbin.”

Deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam introduced the bill which was opposed by DMK whip R Sakkarapani.

With the Karnataka elections just three months away, the expletives and abuses are expected to get louder and more dirtier.

The saffron party has accused the Trinamool Congress leadership of practicing "soft Hindutva" to stop the Hindu voters from uniting under the BJP.

Rajinikanth will board a flight to Malaysia tonight and Haasan, who is now in America, is expected to reach there tomorrow, film industry sources said.

Sushil Gupta, a law graduate, in this 2013 affidavit had also stated that his total income was Rs 1.7 lakh but his total assets are at a Whopping Rs 1,64,44,79,512.

The Centre’s inclination towards the scheme was bolstered by recent meeting between PM Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in New Delhi in which the latter gave a detailed presentation on the scheme.

His remarks came after Trump said Pakistan had given America nothing but lies and deceit and that it had provided a safe haven to terrorists.

It is true that if there has been one cine-star to capture the public imagination on the silver screen after MGR, it is undoubtedly Rajinikanth. But politics is another ball game. And Dravidian politics by any stretch of imagination is no soft-ball.

Dinakaran’s statement came a day before Rajinikanth was to unveil his political plans, with political observers and sources close to the actor saying he will likely launch a new political party.

West Bengal Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was writing a letter to the Lok Sabha secretariat on Thursday morning seeking to withdraw his objection to the introduction of the 'Triple Talaq Bill' in the legislative list of business of the House.