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Sharad Yadav's close associate and former Rajya Sabha member Ali Anwar said hundreds of their supporters signed a letter and applied for a new party and suggested five possible names.

A day after the minor tribal girl ended her life in Koraput, Congress gave called for dawn-to-dusk bandh across the state, while the BJP announced its decision to observe a 12-hour strike from 6 AM to 6 PM.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, who met NCP leader Tariq Anwar and rebel JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav to discuss the issue, said it was time that the legislature and the executive come together to resolve the crisis as the judiciary has been unable...

The circular says that in all public offices, schools and colleges in Kerala, the national flag should be hoisted by the head of departments.

The Shiv Sena, led by Uddhav Thackeray, said it has always compromised for upholding alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party. The resolution was moved by Sena MP Sanjay Raut.

The party's MP convenor, Alok Agrawal, said that the party had raised the issue on July 4, 2016, and sought the disqualification of these MLAs, but no action was taken by the poll panel.

The defeat gives the BJP a lot to think about as most senior Congress leaders kept themselves away from campaigning for the elections, while CM Shivraj had conducted several rallies and roadshows.

Several big names feature in the list of AAP MLAs facing disqualification, including Kailash Gahlot, Delhi cabinet minister and close confidant of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

The meeting assumes added significance amid the buzz that party leaders are trying their best to avoid a vote on the two largely differing opinions on how to take on the BJP, which the party has already identified as its prime opponent.

On her 62nd birthday, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Supremo Mayawati on Monday attacked both BJP and Congress, and accused them of being hand-in-glove.

Rahul Gandhi will reach Amethi via Rae Bareli for a two-day visit.

Hitting back at the Congress leader, the law minister wondered if the Congress' stand on the triple talaq bill worked to spread love or hate in the society.

The Jharkhand Disom Party and the Adivasi Sengal Abhiyan were protesting against the Centre and Jharkhand Government's decision to implement the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Jharkhand Amendment Bill), 2017 and the Jharkhand Freedom o...

The special CBI court in Ranchi sentenced Lalu Prasad Yadav to three- and-a-half years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on him in the fodder scam case relating to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 89.27 lakh from the Deoghar Treasury 21 years ago.

Reddy dismissed the allegations that Aam Aadmi Party has now become a Khaas Aadmi Party saying that in his party all are Aam Aadmis and there is no scope for special privileges to be accorded to a chosen few.

Several towns and cities in Maharashtra were on the edge today as Dalit protests against yesterday's violence in Pune spilled over to Mumbai, with agitators damaging scores of buses, and disrupting road and rail traffic, officials said.