Politics

Disputing government's claim that demonetisation of higher value currency notes would check black money, former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said it would only affect the common man.

They are two big names in Indian politics and two bitter rivals. But the Modi government’s decision to scrap old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes has forced Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati to join cause.

Demanding a NIA probe into the killing of 17 of its party workers and several activists of different Hindu organisations in Karnataka, the state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday threatened to stage a massive protest against government ap...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said as much as 846 acres of the 997.11 acres of land acquired by Tata Motors for a small car project at Singur in Hooghly district had been returned to the farmers after dismantling the factory shed...

Government's move to demonetise high-value currency notes does not address the problem of black money stashed abroad or invested in real estate or gold, the CPI(M) said wednesday, demanding that the names of top 100 defaulters of bank loans be made public...

Left parties on Monday asked their cadres to draw lessons from Russian Revolution in the fight against the BJP-led NDA government's "anti-people and pro-corporate" policies and urged them to "unite" against its "assaults" on democracy.

BJP on Monday pilloried Trinamool Congress for siding with Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind in opposing abolition of triple talaq in the country, saying it was playing vote bank politics without considering the plight of 1.5 crore Muslim women in West Bengal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said science, technology and innovation has a significant role in India's bilateral engagement with the UK.

BSP Supremo Mayawati hit back at BJP and said the country will have to face serious consequences of dictatorship if the BJP were to gain power in the state in the upcoming assembly elections in 2017.

"After eight months (of appointment) LG wakes up and is saying his approval was not taken for DERC's chief appointment," said Kejriwal.

Criticising both Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) over poor law and order situation in the state, Shah said, "Both SP and BSP cannot improve law and order of UP".

A look at the popular rath yatras carried out in India till date.

Alleging that SAD was being controlled by mafias, with no concern for the governance of Punjab, Bajwa said only Amarinder could lead the state out of the quagmire which it had been plunged into by the Badal government.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minster Akhilesh Yadav kicks off his vikas rath yatra on November 3, two days before the Samajwadi Party marks its silver jubilee.

Police on Monday gunned down eight undertrial activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in an alleged gun battle, hours after they escaped from a high-security jail in Bhopal.

Amidst a raging controversy over killing of eight SIMI activists who had fled from a jail, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said raising doubts and questioning the police should stop as no conclusion should be drawn on the bases of videos only.