Politics

Addressing the General Assembly on Saturday, Sushma Swaraj had lashed out at Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism and blamed it for the stalled dialogue process.

The Congress leader said the Modi government had ignored the interests of farmers but helped a small group of industrialists by waiving loans amounting to nearly Rs 1.5 lakh crore.

NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik reiterated the party's demands that the central government disclose the price of the fighter jets and a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe the matter.

Last month, Arvind Kejriwal said in Haryana's Rohtak that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would not be a part of any opposition alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Union Minister Babul Supriyo said that while HAL was to produce 108 fighter jets locally in a joint venture with French firm Dassault Aviation in the deal for 126 Rafale jets that the previous UPA regime had negotiated.

According to sources, his political outfit will be called 'Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party', however, the official announcement will be made once they get clearance from the EC. Yadav had formed a breakaway faction, 'Samajwadi Secular Morcha (SSM)' after a l...

Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said the state BJP unit has decided to come up with "point by point" rebuttals to counter the spread of "misinformation" by the Congress and NCP against the NDA government.

The ruling party rakes up his name every time it is cornered and this time it stands exposed on the Rafale issue, Robert Vadra said, describing the situation as a "wholesale farce".

AAP leader Sanjay Singh threatened to approach the court if the defence minister failed to heed to his demands in the next three days. A legal notice is a precursor to a case being filed in a court.

Opposition parties have alleged that caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and other TRS leaders are doing "communal politics" and engaging in "cheap tricks" to win in snap elections.

The Congress has launched an offensive against the BJP government over the Rafale deal, alleging corruption and violation of rules by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demanded answers from him.

Referring to the draft National Register of Citizens recently published in Assam, he said the BJP government brought NRC and prima facie identified nearly 40 lakh illegal immigrants.

His reaction came soon after government called off the scheduled meeting between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the sidelines of UNGA session that begins later this month.

The BJP, however, maintained that it has been the government's stand that talks and terror cannot go together and asserted that the Indian Army will give Pakistan a befitting reply.

Attacking the government on the issue of NPAs, Congress alleged collusion between "bank looters and the Modi government".

Gautam, who is the social welfare minister in the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government, said that Azad's support will be taken in the Lok Sabha polls for "protecting" the Constitution.