At a meeting chaired by state unit president Raj Babbar and attended by its Chief Ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit, and top leaders like Nirmal Khatri, Rajya Sabha members Pramod Tiwari, P.L. Punia, Sanjay Singh, former union ministers Pradeep Jain Aditya and Jitin Prasad, every seat was discussed and a proposal sent to the high command....
The Congress will be the main opponent for the BJP for the upcoming Goa polls, because it is the biggest opposition party in the assembly and a national party, a state BJP leader said on Thursday. ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea by expelled AIADMK MP Sasikala Pushpa and an NGO seeking CBI or a judicial probe into the death of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa....
Only a miracle can prevent the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from finishing on top in the Punjab assembly election, irrespective of how many seats it ultimately bags. But miracles do happen....
Demonetisation may lead to a temporary slowdown in the economy, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday....
The Trinamool Congress MPs were on Thursday detained from near the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) here as they tried to march towards it to protest the arrest of their fellow MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay on Tuesday. No less than 32 Trinamool members of Parliament took out a march towards the PMO on Raisina Hill. They were, however, stopped midway by the Specia...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's former Principal Secretary on Thursday said he had sought voluntary retirement after alleging harassment by the CBI. Rajendra Kumar alleged that the Central Bureau of Investigation was pressurizing him to implicate the Chief Minister in the alleged wrongdoing he (Kumar) is accused of. The CBI denied the al...
India has broken "UN limits" on development of nuclear weapons, a leading Chinese daily said, and demanded that Pakistan should get the same nuclear privileges. The Global Times also warned that China will not stick "rigidly to nuclear rules" if Western countries accept India as a nuclear country "and are indifferent to the nuclear race be...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday praised Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for organising a mega "Prakash Utsav" here, marking the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh. He also hailed Nitish Kumar's decision of imposing prohibition in the state and urged all political parties and people to back his move. "Nitish K...
Sri Lanka on Thursday arrested 10 Indian fishermen for poaching in its waters. The arrested fishermen and their trawlers were taken to a naval base where they were handed over to local authorities in Jaffna town, Xinhua news agency reported. Earlier this week, Sri Lanka urged India to end bottom trawling in order to resolve a long standing fishing dispute...
