Politics

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said women heads of five crore poor families will get the amount directly in their bank accounts under Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY) scheme.

The Union home ministry last week banned the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), led by Muhammad Yasin Malik, under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.

Maintaining that Chandrababu Naidu accepted a special economic package in lieu of special category status for the state, Piyush Goyal said Andhra Pradesh might lose a special grant of Rs 17,500 crore if the SCS was granted.

Tamanna said that she had submitted an application seeking Jana Sena ticket to contest from Mangalagiri but the party denied to issue it.

In a strange twist to the Mandya battle, there have surfaced three more candidates with the name Sumalatha and all have filed their nominations as independent candidates from the district.

As supporters of Ravi Shankar Prasad and RK Sinha shoved each other and exchanged blows, they were quelled by security personnel deployed at the Patna airport, though it was not known if any of them were detained.

On Friday, the Delhi BJP election committee shortlisted three names each for the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital, amid protests by party members over celebrities joining the organisation for tickets ahead of the polls.

The All-India Congress Committee on Monday announced Nirupam's candidature from the Mumbai North-West Lok Sabha seat, but replaced him with former Union minister Milind Deora as the Grand Old Party's Mumbai unit chief.

Asaduddin's younger brother and party legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi too targeted Modi over his 'Main Bhi Chowkidar' campaign and said if the prime minister wished to be a watchman, he would offer him a security guard's cap and a whistle.

BJP's former spokesperson I P Singh attacked the party in a series of tweets from his official Twitter account having a prefix 'usuldaar' (principled) to his name.

The latest to join TRS was TDP politburo member Nama Nageswara Rao who would have been the party candidate from Khammam constituency.

This will be the first time that Acharya will fight the assembly polls though he has been in politics since his student days and was the president of the students union in BJB College here in the 90s.

The SC's previous split-judgment on the regulations of services in Delhi was not received well by AAP and emerged into a power tussle between the city govt and Lt Gen. Anil Baijal.

While Swamy on Saturday clarified why he refused to prefix 'chowkidar' to his Twitter handle, he also claimed that neither PM Modi nor Finance Minister Arun Jaitley understood economics.

The Mizoram election department has been instructed by the ECI to arrange for the transport of over 12,000 Bru voters from their relief camps to the special polling booths on Tripura-Mizoram border.

A former bureaucrat with the tax department, Harit is committed to winning public support through her service in the SP-BSP stronghold where Congress last won in 1984.