Politics

Imarat-e-Shariah issued a fatwa against the Bihar minister for chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' and said Khurshid should be ostracized from the Muslim community.

Uddhav Thackeray, whose party is a constituent of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre and in Maharashtra, also said it would be an injustice to the nation if the senior ally remained embroiled in elections and internal politics.

On his visit to Kolkata’s Acharya Shri Mahashraman at Rajarhat, Bhagwat said, “For any personal and social work or service to the nation - purushartha is important.

“The achhe din are only in advertisements. Do we have true democracy in the country if all affairs are going to be run as per the wishes of the Prime Minister? He is centralising power at the Centre, instead of decentralising it. He is taking away the ind...

T R Zeliang was sworn-in on Thursday after the governor sacked the then Chief Minister Shurhozelie Liezietsu, who failed to turn up for the vote of confidence. Zeliang on Friday won the trust vote in the assembly by securing 47 of 59 votes.

In the 295-member Bengal Assembly, BJP's position is too weak to be a decisive factor in the Presidential polls.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had announced his party's support for NDA's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind after a meeting of Sena leaders in Mumbai last month.

The letter to DGP of prisons HSN Rao said there were rumours that Sasikala paid Rs 2 crore as bribe to jail officials, including the DGP himself, to get these illegal benefits.

A central team of the BJP was stopped near Barasat on Friday after they tried to visit the riot-hit areas in Basirhat in Bengal’s North 24-Parganas district.

As the incumbent President Pranab Mukherjee stood at the podium, on June 30, in the Central Hall of Parliament, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave the launch of Goods and Services Tax (GST) a miss as requested by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.

Banerjee said Air India is the pride of the country and she does not support such an action.

Amid reports of alleged lynching incidents targeted at minorities, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Thursday said there was no atmosphere of fear or insecurity prevailing among the community.

The trouble in that coalition heaven called Bihar Mahagathbandhan began two months ago when Lalu Prasad Yadav went around meeting a few top BJP leaders in New Delhi, forcing a rethink on the part of Nitish Kumar to break away.

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday said that former minister and close confidante Gayatri Prajapati was innocent and was ‘being treated like a terrorist’.

The Jammu and Kashmir BJP on Friday condemned the lynching of a police officer outside the Jama Masjid in downtown Srinagar, claiming he was killed by the people he was protecting.

NDA Presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind on Friday filed his nomination in the Parliament in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah.