Politics

Key candidates contesting in the 2021 Assembly elections from Howraghat (ST) constituency are: Dorsing Ronghang of BJP, Sanjeeb Teron of CONG, Jiten Tati of AJP

Mamata said that those originally hailing from other parts of India but residing in West Bengal for ages are not outsiders but her "own people".

BJP earlier nominated Ashok Kumar Lahiri from Alipurduar but shifted him to Balurghat after a section of leaders and workers protested and demanded a local candidate.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic has progressed more quickly than expected, but the central bank does not intend to let up in its support efforts.

At the heart of the conflict is the sovereignty of the elected government, the council of ministers to take independent decisions, and the legislative assembly of Delhi.

Gandhi said Congress guarantees to defend the "idea of Assam" that contains culture, language, tradition, history and the way of thinking.

The 61-year-old leader has been served notice to appear at the ED headquarters in the national capital.

Odisha Assembly Speaker S N Patro on Thursday said that he is hopeful on the return of normalcy in the House after the agitating BJP MLAs met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, following which the co-operation minister was asked to give a statement on paddy...

BJP will have to add on to the support base they built in the region during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls to capture power in the state.

Reactions to the shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors that left eight dead, mostly women of Asian descent:

The former leader of Mexicos oil workers union will finally be resigning from his symbolic post as a worker at the stateowned oil company Pemex, President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador announced Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh on Tuesday targeted the Opposition, saying they form governments to loot and promote families in politics. Addressing a gram chaupal organised at Ramlila Maidan of Kudwar, Singh claimed, "Remaining away fro...

Chacko, who quit the Congress over his differences with the party leaders in Kerala, earlier on Tuesday said NCP is a partner of the CPI (M)-led LDF in the southern state and he would work for the victory of the Left candidates in the April 6 Assembly pol...

Her two daughters were sexually assaulted before they died in 2017.

A leader of Senate Democrats' drive to help millions of immigrants become citizens cast severe doubt on its prospects Monday, as one of President Joe Biden's early priorities seemed in danger of running aground in a Congress his own party controls.

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who is pitted against his mentor turned adversary, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, in the Nandigram assembly seat, on Sunday locked horns with his former party seeking to appropriate the legacy of Nandigram movemen...