Politics

Party leaders supporting Sitaram Yechury's line will now strongly push for having an understanding with all anti-BJP forces as against Karat's policy of keeping a distance.

A five-party alliance cobbled together by the BJP and led by the NPP is set to come to power in Meghalaya, edging out the Congress which had emerged as the single-largest party in yesterday’s results.

BSP chief Mayawati stated that the support will be limited to the bypolls only and there would be no alliance with the Samajwadi Pary beyond that.

The Left Front has complained to the chief electoral officer and the Election Commission regarding the issue, he said, alleging that there was a "conspiracy to forcefully defeat" the chief minister.

Tripura BJP chief Biplab Deb is the top claimant for the job of the chief minister in the state. Niti Deb, wife of Biplab Deb, says that she wants her husband to focus on his political life for leading a happy life.

Bilab Kumar Deb is a home grown talent, who has been associated with the RSS for a long time. Born in Akraban, Udaipur in Gomoti District of Tripura, Biplab was in the national capital for 15 years. He used to work as a gym instructor in Delhi before he w...

The BJP moved into the new headquarters on February 18 and this was the first election since then. While Meghalaya threw a spanner in the works for the BJP, the win in Nagaland and Tripura has made many in the party think the new address brings luck for t...

Meghalaya, which can easily boast of being the country’s rock capital, is all set to go to polls and the Congress will fight hard to retain this one; so much so that Rahul Gandhi is all set to start campaigning with a rock concert, but will he emerge as t...

The "pro-corporate BJP" is following fascist policies and it is essential to go for state-specific electoral tactics to take on the BJP-led front, Reddy had said.

He termed the outcome of the by-elections as the "defeat of arrogance and misgovernance and the victory of hope". He also congratulated the aware people and voters for the Congress' victory in Mungaoli and Kolaras constituencies.

In Nagaland, the BJP and its allies are expected to bag 27-32 seats in the 60-seat Assembly.

Rajasekharan along with other NDA leaders, their hands tied with red ribbons, staged the sit in dharna with a banner that read 'Madhu we are sorry, pardon us' and 'Kerala the land of the devils' in front of the state secretariat in Thiruvanathapuram.

Madhya Pradesh Congress in-charge Deepak Babaria said the AICC (All India Congress Committee) would take the aspirants who are poor but who enjoy a mass support in consideration. (Lack of) Money will not be a hindrance for such candidates.

Adityanath, who was an MP from the city for five years, will address a public rally in Pipraich on Monday, following which he will attend a programme at Gorakhpur Club. The next day, he will attend a conference in Pipiganj, address public in Sahjanwa and...

These bypolls are being seen as a prestige battle for Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who is in his third term as Chief Minister, and his arch-rival Jyotiraditya Scindia of the Congress.

Chidambaram filed a writ petition in the top court on Friday, seeking to restrain CBI and ED from issuing any summons to him, his son Karti Chidambaram or any other family member in connection with alleged cases of corruption involving grant of Foreign In...