Politics

AIADMK Deputy General Secretary T T V Dinakaran on Sunday claimed that the 'two leaves' symbol belongs to his faction and that he would file the nomination for the R K Nagar constituency on March 23.

Quick Sunday Trivia question: Who is the only other religious monk in the world – apart from Yogi Adityanath - to assume political office? Answer: Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus in 1960. And the events in distant Cyprus from 50 years ago serve as a cau...

One of the most famous statements to describe Yogi Adityanath, man chosen by Narendra Modi to lead UP, goes as follows. "Ek haath mei Maala, doosre Mei Bhaala, aise hain Yogi Lala (In one hand a garland, in another a javelin, that is our Yogi)."

The BJP scored a massive victory in Uttarakhand winning 56 of the 70 seats in the state to storm to power, reducing Congress to a minuscule minority in the state Assembly with a poor tally of 11 seats.

BJP President Amit Shah on Friday justified his party's move to form governments in Goa and Manipur, where the just-held assembly polls threw up fractured mandates.

Apart from the BSP supremo Mayawati, Kejriwal, who is AAP's national convener and Delhi Chief Minister, has also alleged that EVMs were tampered with in recently concluded Assembly elections in five states.

One of the strongest regional satraps of the Congress, Amarinder Singh put the party back in the saddle in Punjab after the "father of all battles" that decimated the SAD and crushed the AAP's dream of expanding its footprint beyond Delhi.

The opposition parties and civil organisations are up against Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao's plan to shift Dharna Chowk which has been venue of thousands of protests for several years out of Hyderabad citing law and order issues.

Smarting from the drubbing at the hustings, BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday decided to move court against the alleged tampering of EVMs and observe a ‘black day’ every month against the “murder of democracy” by the BJP.

Battlelines have been drawn for next month’s bypoll in RK Nagar Assembly constituency which fell vacant following Jayalalithaa’s demise in December.

The Congress on Tuesday said the Bharatiya Janata Party had become experts in making governments in states through Governors.

The top court said it was "satisfied" that all the sensitive and contentious issues raised in the petition by Goa Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader Chandrakant Kavlekar "can be resolved by a simple direction of holding a floor test".

Two and a half years ago Manohar Parrikar needed a bit of convincing to shift to Delhi as minister for Defence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, fresh off his thumping victory in the Lok Sabha elections, had to personally step in. This time around Parrikar m...

BJP has already cemented a strong ally in Conrad Sangma, whose political roots lie in Meghalaya's Tura hills. Beware Mukul Sangma, BJP is coming.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was appointed the Goa Chief Minister late on Sunday and has to prove majority on floor of the House within 15 days of taking oath.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday termed the BJP's big win in state polls as people's endorsement of demonetisation and asserted that it was seen as pro-poor, reformist and the sole defender of the nationalist constituency in the country.