Politics

Mamata Banerjee warned Trinamool Congress leaders that those who wanted to join other parties are free to move but no anti-party activities will be tolerated.

The BJP has planned to mobilise 20,000 of its youth workers for a bike rally to the coastal town to protest “political killings of Hindus” in the region in the last couple of years.

A BJP insider said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's increased involvement in political troubleshooting is also a statement on the Prime Minister’s ability to utilize the resources at hand.

Only India’s second woman to assume the charge of the Defence Ministry, Nirmala Sitharaman was born in Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu. She graduated from Seethalakhsmi Ramaswami College in her hometown before heading to JNU.

The Ministry, a crucial one for fulfilling Narendra Modi’s social agenda, has been lying vacant since Venkaiah Naidu became the Vice President.

The only addition from Karnataka is Anant Kumar Hegde, a Brahmin. This has left party men confused as they were expecting at least one MP from the Lingayat community to be added to the Cabinet.

The point being made is why is the BJP finding it difficult to get a foothold in the state by hitching itself with the AIADMK. It is not for lack of trying on the BJP’s part. Several other factors are coming in the way.

A TRS worker tried to set himself on fire at a party meeting in front of state Transport Minister P Mahender Reddy in Tandur town of Vikarabad district.

All this ownership of Dalit welfare stems from the yet-to-be-officially released caste survey, which hints at a big rise in Dalit population in Karnataka.

In the all-party meet to end the Darjeeling crisis at the state secretariat Nabanna, Banerjee stuck to her stand that she will not let West Bengal will not be divided and requested the representatives of all the hills party to call off their indefinite ba...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's letter to the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) came a day after GJM Chief Bimal Gurung requested her to initiate a political dialogue to bring normalcy in the Hills.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Sakshi Maharaj's statement that whether the girl or the crores of devotees are right is a cruel joke on the victim who was attacked by self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

Describing the governor as a "legal expert", TTV Dinakaran told reporters in Chennai that "justice", for which his loyalists had taken up cudgels against the incumbent dispensation led by E Palaniswami, "will win".

The development came on a day the Janta Dal (United) wrote to Yadav, asking him to skip the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) rally in Patna on Sunday and asserted that if he attended it, he would be working "against the party's principles".

Mayawati also said that her previous experience with the coalition government was not good, and accused her allies of stabbing in the back. I would think about any coalition only if the seats are fixed beforehand, she said.

Earlier, Sasikala's Mannargudi-based brother V Divakaran had also backed Dhanapal to become the Chief Minister, with Dhinakaran leading the charge against Palaniswami.