Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Thursday promised free mobile phones and 50 percent subsidy for women who buy scooters if the AIADMK retained power in assembly elections....
With 57 cases registered against him, journalist-turned-CPI-M candidate M.V. Nikesh Kumar leads from the front the candidates who have a number of cases against them and are contesting the May 16 Kerala assembly polls, a statement said on Thursday....
With Pakistani-origin Sadiq Khan likely to become London's new mayor, his Conservative foe Zac Goldsmith is using Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's name to woo Hindu and Sikh votes....
New BJP state unit chief Keshav Maurya as Lord Krishna, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati as Hindu goddess Maa Kaali and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as Bollywood cop "Singham" - that's the unsavoury poster war under way in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous and politically significant state, which goes to the polls early next year....
BJP MP Subramanian Swamy on Thursday said Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh should be summoned by the CBI on the AgustaWestland helicopter case. ...
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation led by Union minister J.P. Nadda on Thursday met the Election Commission in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a Kerala law student, and expressed concern over the law-and-order situation in the southern state....
From 29 percent today, 33 percent members of the Lok Sabha will come from three states – Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal – within a decade, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data in a Kotak Securities report on the demographic dividend of India�...
Former Goa education minister and unattached Congress MLA Atanasio Monserrate, who has been accused of raping a minor girl, surrendered before the Crime Branch on Thursday. ...
Trinamool Congress candidate Rabindra Nath Ghosh was on Thursday allegedly caught on camera while threatening a polling officer inside a booth during the sixth and final phase of the West Bengal assembly elections. ...
A city court on Thursday adjourned till May 9 the pronouncement of quantum of punishment for Vijay Mallya, the chairman of the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines, in a cheque bounce case....
