Politics

Alleging that the agreements with solar and wind power companies caused Rs 2,636 crore loss to the state exchequer, Reddy asked officials to take steps to recover the amount.

The protestors had gathered in front of the bus with various demands when Kumaraswamy first asked them to make way for the bus and later lost his cool.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made these remarks while referring to a law brought by the then Congress government to overrule the Supreme Court judgement on the Shah Bano case to placate Muslims.

This will be the first time in three years that the Chief Ministers of the two Telugu-speaking states, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, shall meet officially.

Gujarat BJP OBC cell president Jugalji Thakor also filed his papers for the second Rajya Sabha seat from Gujarat.

The party said that after due consultation, 'National President Shri Amit Shah Ji has decided the name of Pradipta Kumar Malik, MLA as the leader of the legislative party'. ​

Manmohan Singh said some regions and social groups were extremely poor and vulnerable despite various anti-poverty programmes and affirmative policies being followed.

This is coalition government, the Chief Minister is not alone for JD(S), he is Chief Minister for the entire state. If he does grama vastavya will it (credit) go only to JD(S)? It will go to entire government, said Parameshwara from Congress.

The BSP chief claimed that the way in which the Election Commission had bowed before the prime minister gave rise to the apprehension over free and fair polls in the country.

According to BJP sources, Karim, a former CPI-M worker, switched to BJP during the 2019 polls. He was attacked by Trinamool workers on Friday.

Ashwini Vaishnav, who was private secretary to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, joined the BJP in the presence of the party's Odisha unit president and MP Basant Panda and other senior leaders.

The chief minister announced his party’s IT cell head and spokesperson Amar Patnaik and another spokesperson Sasmit Patra as the two BJD candidates. The third, former IAS officer Ashwini Vaishnav, is a BJP candidate who will have the regional party's supp...

While Janata Dal (Secular) founder HD Deve Gowda earlier on Friday told reporters that mid-term polls in the state are inevitable, he later went back on his statement to say that the coalition government would continue.

The remaining five Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MPs met Rajya Saba chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday demanding disqualification of the four members who joined the BJP.

BJP working president JP Nadda said the TDP MPs decided to join the party due to their belief in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's agenda of development and inclusiveness.

Angry people gheraoed Trinamool leaders and elected representatives of panchayats and municipalities in Birbhum, Malda, Purulia and Bankura districts and demanded that the money allegedly taken from them to provide them benefits from various schemes of th...