Politics

In his brief inaugural address at the 84th Congress Plenary Session, Congress President Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the NDA government, accusing it of spreading hatred and anger, and failing to create jobs and address farm distress.

Fielding questions, the first-time CM and five-term MLA pointed out that the BJP had now gone where it could never go before. Referring to the elections in northeastern states, he said that where BJP didn't even have representatives, it now formed governm...

The most striking aspect of Gorakhpur and Phulpur victories has been the selection of candidates aimed to disrupt the BJP’s caste calculus in the Hindi heartland.

Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Pravin Togadia alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi used Hindus and Hindutva to get majority of votes, and after coming to power discarded both. "This is called use and throw," he said.

In an unstarred written question, Naresh Agarwal had wanted the Finance Minister to state if "it is a fact that government has accepted that its decision of demonetisation was the worst decision; (and) if so the reasons thereof".

Known to be a 'sympathiser' of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) in its initial years, Drabu, a former Jammu and Kashmir Bank Chairman and a loyalist of then PDP chief Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, was appointed by the party to do the maths with the...

The BJP released a list of 18 candidates from various states for the upper house of the Parliament, but Katiyar’s name was missing from it. Among the eight candidates chosen from Uttar Pradesh, former SP leaders, Ashok Bajpai and Harnath Singh Yadav, were...

Banerjee had on Saturday announced that her party would support Singhvi in the Rajya Sabha polls from the state.

Hardik Patel, the 24-year-old Patidar quota agitation spearhead, who had pledged support with the Congress for the Gujarat polls held in last December, said the opposition party would have got an absolute majority had he met Gandhi.

A bust of the Jan Sangh founder at Serampore in West Bengal's Hooghly district was attacked a day after two statues of communist icon Lenin were vandalised in Tripura in the wake of the declaration of the Assembly poll results in the north-eastern state.

The three Rajya Sabha seats in the state will go to polls on March 23. A look at the seat count shows that the TDP should be able to win two seats, while YSR Congress will get one. The latter’s nominee Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy has already filed his nomin...

The BSP workers have been doing a door-to-door campaign in Phulpur and Gorakhpur to ensure committed party votes are transferred to the SP candidate in what is crystallising as a bipolar contest against the BJP.

Observing that "cowards" indulge in physical fight, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the allegations levelled against him that he had called chief secretary Anshu Prakash for a meeting at his residence and got him thrashed at night w...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi joined TDP MPs at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to press for a special package to Andhra Pradesh. “I call upon the Centre to give the people of Andhra Pradesh their due,” Gandhi said to a loud applause.

Nand Kumar Gupta 'Nandi' further went on to rant that when Kumbhakarna and Meghnad asked Lord Ram about their future selves, they were told that they would become Shivpal and Akhilesh respectively.

The second part of Parliament's Budget Session begins today, with the opposition ready to corner the government on the issue of bank frauds.