Politics

Rahul Gandhi predicted that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would not even get 230 Lok Sabha seats and hence there was no question of Modi becoming Prime Minister again.

Some unidentified men targeted the JNU student leader and gunshots were heard but he escaped unhurt, according to witnesses even as the police asserted it will verify the incident.

MK Alagiri, the eldest son of late M Karunandhi, has chalenged MK Stalin's claim to leadership. Alagiri says he has the support of DMK cadres.

To a question whether or not the Congress will project somebody as its chief ministerial candidate ahead of the polls due later this year, he made an analogy from Hindu epic Ramayana and said lord Ram did not get married straight on.

The three-time chief minister alleged that the BJP was not interested in solving the problem of infiltration, but to use it as a poll agenda in the next Lok Sabha and state elections.

Ever since the Assam NRC final draft was released, opposition party leaders have consistently dismissed it, especially West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who has entered in a bitter war of words with the BJP, calling it nothing but an attempt to ‘...

The state capital, however, has been exempted from Saturday's plan, TMC secretary-general and West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said here on Friday.

The Yogi government had scrapped the holiday of Karpuri Thakur Jayanti soon after coming to power, but they reinstated the holiday in January this year.

Rahul joined a protest over the dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, at Jantar Mantar. “The atrocities act was brought by the Congress and the party will protect it together with everybody,” he said.

The PM said that he had the opportunity of interacting with Karunanidhi on several occasions and his understanding of policy and emphasis on social welfare stood out.

Ramesh, whose party has only six members in the Upper House, got maximum 106 votes out of the three candidates who were in contention.

The Congress’s move to not announce a prime ministerial face is a departure from its oft-repeated stance of projecting party chief Rahul Gandhi for the top post.

TMC secretary general and West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said the party will observe "black day" in every block and district of the state on Saturday and Sunday.

State party president Dwipen Pathak said he was resigning from his post because of Mamata Banerjee’s “lack of knowledge” on the NRC issue

The Congress president also tweeted a news report that quoted a US official as saying that China has quietly resumed its activities in the Doklam area and neither Bhutan nor India has sought to dissuade it.

On Tuesday, Mamata Banerjee accused the Modi government of trying to make millions of people "stateless" in Assam for political gains and warned that stripping of their citizenship could lead to "bloodbath" and a "civil war" in the country.