Politics

In a memorandum to the EC, the Opposition party alleged "blatant violation" of all pre-election norms by the BJP, pointing out that the ruling party has announced 'Garib Kalyan Saptah' from September 17-23.

Zhang said she worked to remove 'a politically-sophisticated network of more than a thousand actors working to influence' the Delhi Assembly polls that were held on February 8.

Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, said the Question Hour is recognised as an essence of parliamentary democracy and executives are accountable and answerable during the Question Hour.

A section within the party feels that with the Question Hour being suspended and elections in Bihar and Bengal coming up, it was important for the Congress leader to be physically present in the House.

Patnaik made the announcement after his JD(U) and Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar called him up in the morning, a CMO release said.

A meeting of the committee on Friday was attended by BJP national president J P Nadda, former Maharashtra chief minister and Bihar election in-charge Devendra Fadnavis and Bihar BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal, among others.

Madan Sharma, 65, was allegedly thrashed by eight workers of the Shiv Sena for forwarding a cartoon on WhatsApp featuring Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

It is still too early to predict what the 'AAP factor' means in the state. Will it ultimately be a factor or just a footnote in the state’s politics? The answers are buried in the future.

Those who denounced the letter writers in the "Group of 23" like Nirmal Khatri and Naseeb Pathan have interestingly found places in the panels announced by Gandhi on Sunday evening.

Yechury's tweet came after CPI(M) MP from Tamil Nadu PR Natarajan wrote to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, demanding a criminal investigation into Facebook's alleged links with th...

Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) will join the NDA, a party spokesperson said on Wednesday. Manjhi has been meeting Kumar, who has taken the lead in bringing his former rival into the ruling alliance.

In his tweet greeting people on Onam on Monday and announcing the floor price for 14 types of vegetables, Isaac said, "we celebrate Mahabali who did not discriminate by caste or creed, not Vamana who cheated him."

10 crore school children who used to get mid-day meals have reportedly been deprive of it because of the lockdown, he said, addressing an online public meeting here on Saturday night.

Naseeb Pathan, who was party MLC between 2004 and 2016, said the party should expel Ghulam Nabi Azad who is among 23 signatories to a letter which called for an overhaul of the organisation.

BJP State vice-president Kanagasabhapathy, General secretary G K Selvakumar, Treasurer, S R Sekhar and district president, Nandakumar, among others, were present.

The Centre on Thursday placed before the GST Council two options for borrowing by states to meet the shortfall in GST revenues pegged at Rs 2.35 lakh crore in the current fiscal. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the economy has been hit by t...