Politics

The IPFT contested in the nine tribal reserved seats of Simna, Mandwai Bazar, Takarjala, Ampinagar, Manu, Raima valley, Ramchandra Ghat, Asharam bari, and Kanchanpur. Except for Manu, where CPI(M)’s Pravat Chowdhury won, the IPFT swept the others.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President claimed that people want change as the present political system had miserably failed and said he was ready to play an active role in bringing that change.

With an income of Rs 71,666 per person in 2014-15, Tripura ranked below the national average of Rs 86,454, between backward states like Rajasthan (Rs 75,201) and Madhya Pradesh (Rs 56,182), as per an analysis by India Spend.

Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Amit Shah took a dig at the Left Front parties saying that “Left is not right” for the country. He added that the BJP had proven after Saturday’s results that it was a pan-India party.

The Congress in Meghalaya is leading in 21 seats, 10 short of the 31 seats needed to form a government.

The BJP "chargesheet" was released by Union Minister Prakash Javadekar who is overseeing the Karnataka election campaign for the party. It has pictures of public infrastructure in bad shape. But a picture of a garbage heap is actually from Nepal and a pot...

Addressing two rallies in the poll-bound state, Modi coined a new acronym 'HIRA'--H for highways, I for Internet way, R for roadways and A for airways--, hardselling the BJP as a tool for ushering in prosperity and development in the state which the Left...

Kovind, a BJP spokesperson at the time, had said that the reservation for socially and economically backward religious and linguistic minorities was not possible as it would be ‘unconstitutional’ to include Muslims and Christians in Scheduled Caste catego...

Congress leader Ashok Chaudhary's decision comes on the same day as Jitan Ram Manjhi’s announcement of quitting the NDA and joining hands with RJD and Tejashwi Yadav-led ‘Mahagathbandhan’.

Apart from Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Om Mathur, Mahendra Nath Pandey and Sunil Bansal will also campaign for the BJP in the by-elections. CM Yogi has already held public meetings on Monday and Tuesday in Gorakhpur t...

Although inconsequential in terms of the strength inside state Assembly, the results of the by-election are expected to alter political equations within both Congress and the BJP.

Sources in I-PAC have told News18 that Kishor has, however, not made clear the contours of the campaign that he may handle in the days ahead.

Criticising the Budget, Chidambaram said the government was a total failure in terms of fiscal consolidation, the consequences of which were "frightening" in the sense that it would cause inflation and borrowing plans to go haywire.

"If he (Rahul Gandhi) has any records anywhere that industries' loans have been waived, let him make it public... I am ready to answer and seek an apology from farmers of Karnataka. What he is saying is wrong," Amit Shah said.

The southern state, where the Congress is in power, is slated to go to polls in the next few months as the tenure of the 224-member current Assembly ends on May 28.

"Around 72 per cent of the electorate cast their votes by 5 pm in the by-poll," state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Surendra Kumar told reporters.