Politics

Newly elected AIADMK legislature party leader Edappadi K Palaniswami staked claim to the chief ministership of Tamil Nadu in a 10-minute meeting with Governor Vidyasagar Rao on Tuesday evening.

The Centre on Tuesday gave the CBI sanction for the prosecution of Rajendra Kumar, former Principal Secretary to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a corruption case. The Centre also rejected Kumar’s plea for voluntary retirement.

No party wants to seriously address the threats to the environment since sand mining and power generation brings in most of the money to Uttarakhand coffers, and into the pockets of politicians.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should show some "sabhyata" (decency), days after he attacked former PM Manmohan Singh in Rajya Sabha, saying, "Only he knew the art of bathing wearing a raincoat."

Minister of State Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Monday claimed that "Hindu population" in India was "reducing becasue Hindus didn't convert people".

Tamil Nadu’s ‘caretaker’ Chief Minister O Panneerselvam may send the police to a luxury resort near Chennai where AIADMK MLAs are being “held captive” by the party’s interim chief VK Sasikala, an AIAMDK leader told CNN-News18 on Sunday.

A day after Shiv Sena praised former Congress Prime Ministers, including Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam on Saturday said that since the Uddhav Thackeray-led party knows that it would lose the upcoming BMC polls, it is...

Noting that next five years are as vital for Uttarakhand as they are in the growth of any 16-year -old, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked people to vote out the government which had "tainted the name of Devbhoomi" and replace it with one that c...

Ruling AIADMK on Friday kept up its attack on O Panneerselvam, saying Jayalalithaa's "soul will not forgive" him for trying to split the party, and asserted that General Secretary V K Sasikala will be soon sworn in as Chief Minister.

BJP firebrand leader Yogi Adityanath on Thursday dubbed Samajwadi Party's "Kaam Bolta Hai" slogan as a "publicity gimmick", even as he questioned the ruling party's decision to contest the upcoming state polls in partnership with Congress.

Shahi Imam of Delhi Jama Masjid Maulana Ahmad Bukhari on Thursday announced his backing for Mayawati's party in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and accused SP of going back on its words.

Uttar Pradesh Minister Sharda Pratap Shukla, who is contesting Assembly polls on a Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) ticket, was on Thursday sacked by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

VK Sasikala hit out at O Panneerselvam on Wednesday, saying no one will be allowed to break up the AIADMK. Giving a stern warning to ‘forces trying to break up the party’, she said “neither AIADMK nor I will be cowed down by such attempts to break up the...

Upping the ante against AIADMK supremo VK Sasikala, DMK Working President M K Stalin on Tuesday claimed the people of Tamil Nadu have not accepted the prospect of her becoming the Chief Minister and urged Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao to take a "good decisio...

Modi said this about Maan, “I generally tell people 'ghee piyo'...but if Bhagwant Mann will say, he will ask to drink something else.”

Even as preparations are in full swing for AIADMK General Secretary Sasikala Natarajan to be sworn in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on Tuesday, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking stay on the same till the judgeme...