Politics

The BSP supremo said Akhilesh should not be blamed for BSP's Rajya Sabha loss, but added that SP should have first assured a seat for her candidate.

For the 59 Rajya Sabha seats to be filled, 33 candidates from 10 states were declared elected unopposed on March 15 with the BJP accounting for 16 of them.

With two jailed MLAs, one each of BSP and SP, being barred from casting their votes in the Rajya Sabha elections, the battle for the last Uttar Pradesh Upper House seat gets exciting as BJP and BSP will now have to rely on cross-voting.

The leader, on Thursday, had accused the government of “inventing” the story to divert attention from the deaths of 39 Indians kidnapped by ISIS in Mosul, Iraq.

The ruling Congress has fielded three candidates from Karnataka, while the BJP and JD(S) have fielded one each. Each nominee requires a minimum of 45 votes to sail through.

The former Union minister alleged that a non-BJP, non-Congress federal front, being promoted by Telangana Chief Minister and TRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao, is aimed at dividing the anti-BJP parties.

Nitin, an MLA from Hardoi constituency, is the son of former SP leader Naresh Agrawal, who joined the BJP after being denied a ticket to the Upper House by Akhilesh Yadav. At the time of his joining, Naresh Agrawal had said that his son would vote for the...

Sharad Yadav did not divulge details about the meeting, but said the core agenda was to unite all the parties against BJP to form a separate front ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.

Post the debacle in Phulpur bypoll, a hoarding asking for resignation of UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya has come up in Allahabad.

The new outfit named “Bharatiya Janashakti Congress” or BJC wants to take on the ruling Congress and main opposition BJP in the Assembly polls likely to be held in May.

The Siddaramaiah government’s decision comes a day after a group of Lingayat seers met the Chief Minister and urged him to implement the report of the committee.

Renowned lawyer Ram Jethmalani criticised Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and the NDA government over their policy on black money. He also said the NDA government has no right to stay in power.

While the first two weeks of the last phase of the Budget Session have been a virtual washout, the government has managed to get some key bills and the budget passed amid a din through a voice vote without a debate.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat called Rahul Gandhi a "jumla" and said that the Congress president was not taken seriously in the country.

Karnataka Congress MP and former Union Minister Veerappa Moily’s lone tweet about the way his party was choosing candidates for the Assembly election left Twitter aflutter on Friday, with the Congress facing embarrassment about an open allegation of an un...

The politician has appealed to his supporters and the public to attend the function wherein he will announce the name of his political party and unveil the flag.