Politics

Fifteen candidates — eight from the Congress, two from the BJP and five independents-were elected unopposed. In the Zila Parishad bypolls, the Congress won seven of the nine seats. The BJP could win only one.

Shah countered TMC's Derek O'Brien on Bihar, where over 100 children died due to acute encephalitis, saying the Home Ministry does not issue health advisories. He also defended BJP-ruled UP saying there were no political killings in the state since his pa...

The statewide march comes a week after Gowda said that mid-term poll was imminent. His statement underlined the growing divide between the coalition partners Congress and the JDS after the poll debacle.

All India Congress Committee (AICC) vice-chairman Foreign Affairs Department Pratap Singh Bajwa said in a statement that 'one must practise what they preach' following which he tendered his resignation from the post.

'The central BJP government has ordered compulsory retirement after evaluating work (eligibility) of employees who have either put in 30 years of service or completed 55 years of age,' an editorial in Murasoli stated.

On February 24, days before the Lok Sabha elections were announced, he had suspended his monthly broadcast for March and April.

Moitra won the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal in the Lok Sabha elections by defeating the BJP’s Kalyan Chaubey by a margin of 63,218 votes. She was earlier a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Karimpur in Nadia district.

Neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor BJP president Amit Shah or party activists was resting on their laurels after the party's massive victory in Lok Sabha polls, Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.

The law to use EVMs was framed in Parliament when Congress was in power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while addressing Rajya Sabha.

In a jolt to the TMC in South Dinajpur district, veteran leader Biplab Mitra also joined the BJP.

Three-time MLA Gorhe was elected deputy chairperson of the Maharashtra Legislative Council unopposed earlier in the day.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, on the contrary, listened to approximately one-hour long speech of the President with full attention and even thumped the table in appreciation when the President mentioned about the Uri surgical strikes and the Balakot airst...

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh also demanded that chief minister Nitish Kumar resign on moral ground.

At an all-party meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Patnaik also strongly advocated a re-look into the Land Acquisition Act and the Forest Conservation Act.

In his congratulatory remarks after the unanimous election of Om Birla as Lok Sabha Speaker, Ramdas Athawale , who has a knack for spontaneous humour, said he is happy that Rahul got a chance to sit in Lok Sabha though as an opposition member.

Baig was recently in news for hitting out at Congress leaders for the party's performance in the Lok Sabha polls and had held Siddaramaiah's "arrogance" and KPCC President Dinesh Gundu Rao's "immaturity" responsible for the "flop show."