Politics

A Facebook campaign against Gurmehar Kaur, daughter of Kargil martyr Captain Mandeep Singh, against RSS-affiliated ABVP beccme the latest flashpoint between the government and Opposition on Monday.

Uttar Pradesh voted in 51 seats spread over 11 districts in phase five of the state Assembly Elections on Monday.

Even though the ruling BJD retained the top position in the recently concluded panchayat polls in Odisha, the BJP has taken a giant stride forward, while the faction-ridden Congress party got decimated.

Serious differences emerged on Saturday in the Congress party over the issue of extending support to the Shiv Sena for the post of Mayor after a hung house was thrown up in the recent elections to the country's richest civic body, Brihan Mumbai Municipal...

The results of civic polls in Maharashtra should not be considered a referendum on the demonetisation, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said on Firday.

As the results of the civic polls trickled in, Sena was at the top after winning 84 seats in the 227-member BMC, while its estranged ally BJP was close behind at 82.

Vilasrao Deshmukh was a Marathwada leader, Ashok Chavan is a Nanded chieftan, Sushil Kumar Shinde is a Sholapur satrap and Pawars rule western Maharashtra. But this civic poll makes Devendra Fadnavis a pan-Maharashtra leader: that’s how a state BJP leader...

Handle, Ghanti and Dikkat are the three prime targets of police after any crime is reported in Sultanpur district.

Bal Thackeray had the mien of a tiger, the Shiv Sena’s symbol. Nobody ever thought his son Uddhav will even amount to be a tiger cub. His soft features and softer voice added to his nondescript personality.

Counting of 10 municipal corporations and 25 zilla parishad polls in Maharashtra now. About 56% voters had exercised franchise and all eyes will be on the outcome of results. The stakes are high for Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Shiv Sena president...

Voter turnout for Solapur Municipal Corporation was 60%.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday said that terrorism in country is a gift from the previous Congress-led governments who mishandled the situation for 20 to 25 years.

Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, without any disclaimer, made it known that the entire political turmoil in the party was a "programmed drama".

As elections in Uttar Pradesh heads to Bundelkhand‎ and districts of Raebareli, Pratapgarh and Allahabad, it's a different story for the Congress’s alliance with Samajwadi party. Unlike the previous phases, it will now be on the Congress now to save grace...

Ailing DMK president M Karunanidhi was recuperating and undergoing speech therapy, his son and party working president M K Stalin said on Monday.

Edapadi Palaniswami, the new Tamil Nadu chief minister, has begun in the grand tradition of his mentor J Jayalalithaa by announcing a series of freebies. The question is how he is going to fund it now that the state seems set on the path to prohibition?