Politics

In a snub to El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, more than threequarters of Salvadorans are skeptical of the maverick leader's push to adopt the cryptocurrency bitcoin as parallel legal tender, according to a poll released on Thursday.

Shoreline cities and towns in the Great Lakes region will be spending heavily in coming years to fix public infrastructure damaged by recent flooding and erosion, with estimated costs approaching $2 billion, officials said Thursday.

The NISHAD party had contested the 2018 Gorakhpur by-polls and won with the support of the Samajwadi Party and in 2019, it switched sides and made an alliance with the BJP.

Virendra Kumar Khatik has in the past served as Union Minister of State for Women and Child Development and Minority Affairs under PM Narendra Modi

L Murugan, who took oath as minister, was the Tamil Nadu BJP president, where he led a Yatra to redeem the hurt pride of Tamil God Murugan

Bhoumik defeated Subal Bhowmik from Congress in 2019 from the West Tripura constituency with a margin of 3,05,689 votes.

Kiren Rijiju first contested the 2004 Lok Sabha election from Arunachal West constituency and won.

The younger brother of former Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, Paras has been in a tussle with his nephew Chirag over control of the LJP.

Babu secured his Lok Sabha seat from Vizag in 2014 after defeating YS Vijayamma, wife of former Chief Minister late YS Rajasekhara Reddy.

Days after a clash between BJP workers and anti-farm law protesters in Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, members of Balmiki Samaj here carried the effigy of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait in a bier and burnt it on Monday. The...

Congress sought to know that in an inter-governmental defence deal when the beneficiary of any 'corruption' has ordered a probe, why has a country, which has lost public money, not ordered one?

Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief Mayawati said the party is not contesting in order to better prepare for next year’s elections.

California will hold a recall election Sept. 14 that could remove firstterm Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office. The date was set by Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, a Democrat and Newsom ally, after election officials certified that enough valid petition...

The two leaders that Amarinder prefers for the post are said to be Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari and state Education and PWD Minister Vijay Inder Singla.

Congressional Democrats are facing renewed pressure to pass legislation that would protect voting rights after a Supreme Court ruling Thursday made it harder to challenge Republican efforts to limit ballot access in many states.

Facebook Inc is starting to warn some users they might have seen "extremist content" on the social media site, the company said on Thursday.