Politics

Under the existing legal regime, a candidate is allowed to contest from up to a maximum of two constituencies in Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly polls.

The list of candidates would be released after Kumar's visit and the main focus of the party will be to play a "kingmakers" role post election, JDU (Nitish Kumar Faction) Karnataka Unit President Mahima Patel told reporters in Bengaluru.

Tension prevails in the area post clashes during Ram Navami processions on Tuesday evening. While an uneasy calm continues in the area, neighbouring Ranigunj is slowly limping back to normalcy. Security forces continue route marches, while Section 144 con...

In a slip of the tongue at a press conference while attacking the Siddaramaiah dispensation as the "most corrupt" one, Shah had said the Yeddyurappa government would get the number one award in corruption.

Phule said she will fight against any effort to end reservation tooth and nail.

Mamata is visiting Delhi and met leaders from the BJP ally Shiv Sena as well as MPs from several opposition parties in the national capital.

On a two-day visit to the poll-bound Karnataka, Shah said the move to accord religious minority tag to Lingayats and Veerashaiva Linagayats was an attempt to 'divide' the Hindus.

The voting for the Karnataka Assembly elections will be held on May 12, while the counting will take place on May 15. The Election Commission of India announced the schedule and said it will be a single-phase polls.

Shah is likely to strike a deal between two warring factions during his visit to Shimoga, the nerve centre of central Karnataka politics.

For the 59 Rajya Sabha seats to be filled, 33 candidates from 10 states were declared elected unopposed on March 15 with the BJP accounting for 16 of them.

Sources said that Congress, by winning both Kolaras and Mungaoli Assembly constituencies in the bypoll, has not only recorded moral victory over Shivraj Singh Chouhan who led from the front in these polls but also forced him to plug loopholes in governanc...

Two representatives from the Kodava community, or Coorgs, MM Bansi and Vijay Muthappa have sent a memorandum to the state asking for a separate religion tag.

The Siddaramaiah government’s decision comes a day after a group of Lingayat seers met the Chief Minister and urged him to implement the report of the committee.

Nirmala Sitharaman attacked the Congress party over Rahul Gandhi's Mahabharata analogy saying, a party that questions the existence of Ram "wants to be identified with the Pandavas".

Amit Shah said the party has taken the bypoll outcome seriously and will minutely analyse the results of these polls.

Union minister Giriraj Singh has accused the RJD of spreading fanaticism after its candidate Sarfaraz Alam won from Araria and warned against such incidents.