Politics

There are around 5.5 lakh Scheduled Caste voters in the Phulpur constituency, who have traditionally voted for the BSP. If the BSP manages to convince its voters to shift entirely to the SP, the newly formed alliance may have a winning formula in its hand...

The bypolls are also a test for NDA's unity and strength as just before the polls, former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) left the alliance and joined the Mahagathbandhan.

Responding to a question on women empowerment, Gandhi also said equality was not "good enough" for women empowerment and asserted that women have to be given more support than men to end the bias against them.

In a brief communique, the spokesperson said, "The President, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed that Suresh Prabhu, Cabinet Minister, shall be assigned the charge of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, in addition to his existing portfolio."

The 63-year-old said he will try to form the next government in the southern state where politics is dominated largely by the AIADMK and the DMK.

Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan will contest from Madhya Pradesh while law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will again contest from Bihar.

The four-day-long state conference, which began on Monday, will see the presence of the entire top brass of the party, including CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury and senior leaders Prakash Karat and Brinda Karat.

Tripura BJP president Biplab Deb, considered a front runner in the race for the chief minister's post, said Tuesday's meeting would be held at the state guest house in the presence of Union minister Nitin Gadkari.

The Congress lost Meghalaya and failed to score a single seat in Tripura and Nagaland.

Meghalaya threw up a fractured mandate on Saturday with the ruling Congress emerging as the largest party, marginally ahead of its rival, the National People's Party (NPP), an ally of the BJP at the Centre and in Manipur.

In 2016, the RSS dispatched a group of 250 workers under the Vistarak Yojna for establishing 125 shakhas in Tripura. Despite major resistance from the administration and other groups active in the region, the Sangh was not deterred from their mission of t...

With an income of Rs 71,666 per person in 2014-15, Tripura ranked below the national average of Rs 86,454, between backward states like Rajasthan (Rs 75,201) and Madhya Pradesh (Rs 56,182), as per an analysis by India Spend.

The state went to poll on February 27 and the Nagaland Assembly Election Results 2018 will be announced on March 3. Of the 195 candidates vying for a seat in the 60-member Assembly this time, five are women.

The BJP has emerged as a strong contender in all the three states and two exit polls have predicted that the party would dethrone the 25-year-old Left Front government in Tripura and consolidate its position in the other two states.

PM Narendra Modi, who has been accusing Karnataka government of corruption, intensified his attack on his third visit in less than a month to the poll-bound state, saying there was public anger against the regime.

"Hyderabad-Karnataka region lies between Hyderabad and Mumbai. It is so located that if an industrial corridor is made, it will provide jobs to lakhs of youths from the region. But they (Congress leaders) won't do it," the BJP chief said.