Politics

On Monday, the CBI questioned Sultan Ahmed and another party MP Satabdi Roy in connection with Narada and Sarada Group chit fund scam.

The main focus of this budget is overall development of rural and urban areas in sync with each other. This was the first time in six years when a finance minister presented the budget of Uttar Pradesh.

Goa Congress chief Shantaram Naik expressed confidence that the BJP-led government in the state would "fall under its own weight" and the Congress would not be required to do anything in that regard.

BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday said the surgical strike conducted by the Army in Pak-Occupied Kashmir last year changed the world's outlook towards India and showed the country is committed to "self-defence".

A Kerala lawmaker pointed his hand gun at a group of estate labourers on Thursday during a heated exchange over a pathway in Mundakayam area of Kottayam district in Kerala.

The Congress on Tuesday criticised the India-US joint statement, terming it as "disappointing and old hat" that lacked "new or big ideas" in the relationship between the two countries.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday questioned the opposition’s decision to field Meira Kumar against Ram Nath Kovind in the presidential elections and said her defeat is almost certain.

The BJP on Monday named Dalit leader and Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind as the NDA's candidate for the post of president

Lobbing the ball back into the state government's court, the centre feels its hands are tied in initiating tripartite talks to end the current impasse in the Darjeeling hills, till West Bengal government gives it's formal consent to begin any dialogue.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday warned ally BJP that his party would take a "big step" if the loan waiver for farmers announced by the Maharashtra government is not implemented by next month.

Armed with four truckloads of affidavits, Tamil Nadu Law Minister CV Shanmugham reached the Election Commission office on Monday morning to stake claim to the AIADMK’s ‘two-leaf’ symbol as merger talks broke down between the rival party factions.

Congress MLA Shakuntala Khatik could be heard encouraging party workers and farmers to burn down a nearby police station in Shivpuri Madhya Pradesh.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee termed the bandh called by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) as "illegal" and met stranded tourists in Darjeeling to assure them of their safe return.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is a worried man. His cause of worry is an angry senior member of the party’s Gujarat unit.

Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi has written a letter to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, asking him to cancel the plot of RJD chief Lalu Prasad who got it allotted in violation of the MLA Cooperative Society's bye-laws.

Several workers of the ruling TDP were taken into police custody at Kesarapalli village near Amaravati on Sunday when they planned to block the convoy of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, who arrived at Vijayawada airport to attend a public meeting in...