Politics

"Some people assume development will take place by winning elections and by tampering the EVM machines or by using money power. But, the state of the economy is very critical now," said Saamana.

The strike for a separate Gorkhaland which began on June 15 this year lasted 104 days. In an audio message, GJM chief Bimal Gurung said the group had decided to suspend the strike, welcoming Union Minister Rajnath Singh's initiative for a tripartite meeti...

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) said it has demanded that a fact-finding team should be set up to look into the incident of lathi-charge in Varanasi.

In an election it was expected to sweep in the absence of its principal rival Congress party, the BJP emerged as the single largest party, and now hopes that elected independent candidates, 21 of them, will back its choice for city's mayor.

The Benaras Hindu University (BHU) campus on Saturday night witnessed violence by students who were lathi-charged by the police, in an ugly turn of a protest against an alleged eve-teasing incident.

The case was lodged in May 2017 when BJP’s Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council KS Eshwarappa’s personal assistant Vinay Bidre alleged that six armed men tried to abduct him.

Modi will inaugurate nearly 17 infrastructure projects, including the Ramnagar-Samne Ghat bridge and the Balua Ghat bridge, and lay the foundation of nearly six projects including Ramna Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), said Sanjay Bhardwaj, the BJP's eastern...

The ‘Vikas has gone crazy’ campaign of the Congress has already become a huge hit on social media.

Rane said that he would take a call on his future within the next two weeks amid speculation that he would join the BJP.

Senior Congress leader Narayan Rane may announce his exit from the grand old party today, upset at its decision of ignoring him for the chief minster’s post when it was in power in the state.

The HC on Tuesday agreed to hear the pleas against the disqualification of the MLAs by Speaker P Dhanapal under the Anti-Defection Act for withdrawing their support to the EPS government.​

A day after the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal disqualified 18 MLAs of the TTV Dinakaran camp, Congress leader P Chidambaram said the Speaker’s decision was “blatantly partisan” and alleged that he was trying to help the minority AIADMK governmen...

Mamata Banerjee’s statement came after the Union Home Ministry reportedly in their confidential report termed Rohingya immigrants as “security threat to India” and also linked them to terror organizations like ISIS and LeT.

With the disqualifications, the total strength of the AIADMK has come down to 116. Of the total 234 legislators, the number is now 231 excluding Jayalalithaa, Karunanidhi and the Speaker.

Completely scandalous as the incident was, there is a deeper malaise beneath the rising Hindu assertion in Kerala to counter what is maybe wrongly perceived as the power of minorityism in the state.

The Chief Minister, who is known for his serious demeanor, eases up an hour into the interview and talks about how 'aggressive policing’ will pursue to shoo away criminals from the state.