Politics

Police have made elaborate security arrangements around the court campus as Lalu and other convicts will be present during the hearing.

Cheered on by hundreds of supporters at a marriage hall in Chennai, Rajinikanth stopped short of announcing a political party, but said he will launch one at an “appropriate time” to contest all 234 seats in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections.

Ending suspense, Tamil superstar Rajinikanth on Sunday announced his entry into politics and said he will launch his own party. "I am joining politics for sure," the 67-year-old said amid thunderous applause from fans.

Parrikar when inducted into the union council was offered a RS seat from UP since no vacancies were available in his home state. Parrikar has now shifted back to Panjim as the Goa CM. Term of this seat ends in November 2020.

In the letter, Shiv Sena Goa spokesperson Rakhi Prabhudesai Naik has termed the move by Parrikar on Christmas as that of being a "Bad Santa Claus" who is snatching the future of our children, which is river Mahadeyi.

The Trinamool had fielded Gita Rani Bhunia, wife of Manas Bhunia, a former Congress MLA who had defected to the Mamata Banerjee-led party earlier this year necessitating the by-election. Bhunia had won the seat in last year's assembly polls.

The notification for the polls will be issued on December 29 and the last date of making nominations is January 5, 2018. The nominations would be scrutinised the next day and the candidates can withdraw their names by January 8.

On Friday, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day as the Congress insisted on resolving the impasse over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks against Manmohan Singh.

He said, “Congress has done no development. We have done everything.” The UP CM is expected to address several rallies across Karnataka in the coming months.

AfterJ Jayalalithaa's death, voters of RK Nagar still remember her. Thus the bypoll in this constituency has also turned into a battle for Jayalalithaa's legacy.

The opposition in UP have termed UPCOCA as a tool to suppress the voice of opposition and against the interest of the common man.

PM’s message at the BJP parliamentary party meeting comes close on the heels of 47-year-old Rahul Gandhi assuming the leadership of the Congress party and two days after counting of votes in a bitterly contested Gujarat elections.

A candidate who fails to get more than one-sixth of the total number of valid votes polled by all the candidates does not get back the deposit amount he paid for filing nomination.

While RK Nagar is just one of 234 constituencies in the state of Tamil Nadu, it has piqued the country’s interest.

The old guards within Congress as well as UPA were more comfortable in dealing with Sonia than team Rahul. Some like Mamata Banerjee, Lalu Yadav and Sitaram Yechury have made no bones about it.

Speaking to News18, Yadav said that all the EVM tampering or malfunctioning allegations achieve is bring down the faith of the people in democracy and demoralise the voters.