Politics

Voting for the second phase of municipal council polls in Maharashtra started at 7.30 am on Wednesday, to elect 324 councillors and 14 municipal council presidents in Latur and Pune districts.

Manas Bhunia, a former senior Congress leader who recently joined the ruling Trinamool Congress, was on Tuesday appointed the national spokesperson of the party.

The BJP state president Dilip Ghosh has tendered an unconditional apology for his controversial remarks against Mamata Banerjee at the West Bengal state Assembly on Tuesday.,

In a significant development, Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Monday night dropped two of his Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party colleagues from cabinet following their outburst against the BJP-led government, raising prospects of new permutations an...

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Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress had decided to organise a three-day protest in West Bengal December 14-16 on the demonetisation issue.

Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh on Thursday dismissed the SAD's 'Paani Bachao, Punjab Bachao' rally at Moga as a desperate "Badal bachao" cry from a party that had lost "all credibility in the state due to its 10 years of misrule".

The BJP National General Secretary said nobody trusted the separatists and if they were so "sincere" about peace, they should stop issuing calendars (of shutdowns).

Buoyed by the party's success in local body polls, the BJP-led government will enter the Winter session of Maharashtra Assembly with confidence but the opposition will seek to put it on mat over key issues like the problems being faced by common people, c...

Amid growing protest by opposition against demonetization, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday again voiced support to the Modi government's decision, saying it is a positive step which will lead to benefits.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing a Parivartan rally in Moradabad on Saturday hit out at black money hoarders and said those misusing the Jan Dhan accounts will be punished.

The who's who of politics, including BJP chief Amit Shah, Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Prakash Javadekar and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray are expected to attend the marriage ceremony of Nitin Gadkari's daughter on Sunday.

The AAP chief urged people to show BJP "the door" when it comes seeking votes. Tell them to go looking for votes to "Ambani and Adani", he said, adding that he was here to "save the country" and not for electoral gains.

Two days after dubbing the ongoing currency crisis a "national calamity", Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday termed the problems resulting from the demonetisation exercise as an "opportunity" for people to usher in a new economic...

A Bharatiya Janata Party MP on Thursday asked the government to start a worldwide wrestling competition of parliamentarians, asserting that he cannot be defeated.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday hit out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for making "factually incorrect" statements on the proposed changes in the Income Tax Law saying the steeper penalties proposed on black money deposits are in addit...