Politics

Chits were drawn, and five years old Yashika Salunkhe picked up one of the chits. The winner was BJP spokesperson Atul Shah.

AIADMK Deputy General Secretary T T V Dinakaran on Thursday hinted at a rapprochement with expelled leader O Panneerselvam, saying the party would "accept with motherly affection" anybody who had gone out of the "parent organisation" and wanted to return.

Voter turnout for the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was 55%.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday wrote an open letter appealing to people to vote for the Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance in Uttar Pradesh while hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

As per the data provided in August 2016, UP had more than 2 times the number of power cuts and 7 times the hours of power cuts as compared to (rest of) India, the Centre said.

Octogenarian Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu is set to be the next chief minister of Nagaland following days of protest, intrigue and resort drama. After the incumbent CM TR Zeliang was forced to step down because of the incessant protests across the state, form...

Attacking both the Shiv Sena and MNS, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said BJP will "change the face" of Nashik if voted to power in the civic body.

Former Lok Sabha member of PDP Tariq Hameed Karra on Saturday joined Congress and said the move was necessitated as the PDP-BJP alliance was only implementing the "RSS agenda" in Jammu and Kashmir.

With Manipur facing an indefinite economic blockade imposed by UNC, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh on Thursday said the state belongs to all ethnic groups and majority should not disturb the minority or vice-versa.

The O Panneerselvam faction of the AIADMK on Thursday moved the Election Commission challenging the election of VK Sasikala as general secretary of the party, saying she was elevated in violation of the norms.

The state-of-the-art interim building was constructed in less than a year.

Union Minister Uma Bharti on Wednesday said the Congress-SP alliance will soon sink as Mulayam Singh Yadav had already punched a hole in it, and the rest will be done by the BJP wave in Uttar Pradesh.

Senior BJP leader and Union minister Kalraj Mishra on Wednesday claimed his party has gained a "decisive lead" in the first of the seven-phased Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls and the trend will continue.

The election in Goa was a peaceful one and with elaborate arrangements by the election commission, there were hardly any glitches in the voting.

Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari on Tuesday dubbed as "insensitive" and "inactive" the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government and termed as "disappointing" its performance in the past two years.

Polling will be held in 69 Assembly seats of Uttarakhand in the second phase of elections on February 15, 2017.