Politics

The former finance minister said the Narendra Modi's government's "mismanagement" of financial institutions had to the Yes Bank crisis.

Uddhav Thackeray said the financial aid will be given on behalf of a trust and not the Maharashtra government.

In Kolkata for a day-long visit, the Home Minister accused opposition parties of building a negative perception about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Given that electricity and water are the two key issues in the hill state, Rawat’s promise may turn into a game-changer for the grand old party, desperate to make its presence felt in the region.

I-T officers have conducted raids on former chief secretary Vivek Dhand, IAS officer Anil Tuteja, Deputy Secretary at the Chief Minister’s Officer Saumya Chaurasia and and several businessmen, considered close to the Congress.

When Madhya Pradesh was ravaged with a massive flood last year, Chief Minister Kamal Nath had even threatened to stage protest in New Delhi with his ministers over alleged delaying of flood relief. However, nothing of this sort actually happened over pauc...

Azam Khan and his family members had surrendered before a Rampur court on Wednesday and were sent to judicial custody till March 2 for their alleged role in securing a fake birth certificate of Abdullah Azam.

The case relates to a forged birth certificate for Azam's son. Abdullah had faced allegations that he gave a wrong date of birth when he filed his nomination papers for the assembly elections.

The first such workshop is expected to be held in Lucknow on Wednesday and is likely to be attended by BJP national general secretary Arun Singh and state BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh.

State government officials and TMC leadership remained tightlipped whether the two leaders will hold any one-on-one meeting on the sidelines of the meeting.

The JD(S), which ruled the state in alliance with the Congress for 14 months before BJP's BS Yediyurappa toppled it last July, is new to the hi-tech election strategies Prashant Kishor is known for.

Bhagwat held a day-long closed-door meeting in Delhi's Chhattarpur area with 70 columnists from across the country in an effort to clear misconceptions about the RSS.

Thackeray assured he will "personally check the columns" in the NPR, adding there shouldn't be any problem with the exercise in the state.

Three Rajya Sabha seats from the state are falling vacant in April this year. One of the seats is currently represented by Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh, while the other two are held by the BJP.

The Centre had last month transferred the probe in the case from the Pune Police to the NIA, a move then criticised by the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in the state.

The former Union minister also asked whether speaking against the government is an "anti-national" activity.