Politics

The Sena expressed apprehensions over the viability of such a project at a time when the country has witnessed a number of rail accidents in the recent past.

The responsibility to achieve the target has been entrusted to Andhra Pradesh Minister for Rural Development Nara Lokesh.

A voter turnout of 43 percent was recorded in the DUSU elections held on Monday. Last year, the ABVP bagged three posts while the NSUI won the post of joint secretary.

After the all-party meet at the mini secretariat at Uttarkanya in Siliguri, she said, “We will immediately restore the public distribution system. We want the bandh to be withdrawn fully and normalcy to be restored as soon as possible. The process of dial...

Bheem Army members, including Supreme Court lawyer Colin Gonsalves and Hindi writer Anil Chamaria, told news persons in New Delhi that the BJP government in UP was working against a particular caste to save members of another in Saharanpur district.

The seers of Nirvani Ani Akhara, Panchdashnaam Juna Akhara and Digambar Ani Akhara among others also requested Adityanath to provide them basic amenities during the fair.

A day after his birthday on September 11, Mohan Bhagwat addressed a gathering on 52 diplomats on the Sangh and its ethos. He also took questions from the diplomats. Bhagwat sought to clarify that while Sangh and BJP are related, the two should not be used...

M K Stalin had on Friday hinted at adopting legal means and mobilising people to "topple" the K Palaniswami-led AIADMK government if Tamil Nadu Governor Vidyasagar Rao did not order a floor test within a specified time-frame.

Led by CPI leader K Narayana, slogan-shouting Left activists were stopped by the police when they were walking towards the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC), where the meeting is being held.

Farooq Abdullah’s support to the Hurriyat leaders, which has been his policy for a long time, is an attempt to put more pressure on the ruling PDP-BJP coalition in the state.

The Congress has 30 MLAs in the 60-member House, the UDP has 8, Hills State Peoples Democratic Party has four, NCP and the NPP has two members each and the rest are Independents.

On Tuesday, TMC MP Derek O'Brien and Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy engaged in a war of words on Twitter after a state-run auditorium in Kolkata cancelled the booking for an event which was to be addressed by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on October 3.

The CM’s direction came as he visited three decentralised STPs in the NDMC area, a day after taking charge of the water department.

During the nomination process, senior BJP ministers, MLAs and office bearers, including newly-elected state BJP chief Mahendranath Pandey, were also present.

Four junior ministers were on Sunday elevated to the cabinet rank and nine new faces, including four former government officers, inducted as Ministers of State, in a rejig by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a focus on his agenda on good governance.

Though top BJP leaders maintained silence on the development, sources in the party said the JD(U) and the Shiv Sena not figuring in the list was likely due to lack of a formula for representation which could satisfy all allies.