The long-standing conflict between Nitish Kumar and the BJP has reached an off-the-charts scale. Sniping at each other is par for the course since they got together in 2017. But for the first time, there is a very real and present danger. | Read more|
Trinamool Congress's Mahua Moitra -- who had a clutch of police cases filed against her over her remark on Goddess Kali as a "meat-eating and alcohol-accepting goddess" that has offended the BJP -- on Wednesday said she stands by her comment and challenged the party to prove her wrong. | Read more|
Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde told NDTV today that more than 50 MLAs are backing him in his revolt against his boss Uddhav Thackeray, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. | Read more|
Eknath Shinde, senior Shiv Sena leader and Maharashtra Minister of Urban Development and Public Works, along with around 20 Sena MLAs, has gone incommunicado a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party won five of the 10 seats in the Legislative Council polls despite not having adequate numbers on its side. | Read more|
The US on Thursday condemned remarks by India's ruling party officials about the Prophet Mohammed that have sparked an uproar in Muslim countries. | Read more|
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala were among eight candidates elected to Rajya Sabha Friday from Karnataka and Rajasthan, while counting of votes in Maharashtra and Haryana was delayed with rival parties trading charges. | Read more|
Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia have condemned remarks on Prophet Muhammed made by two BJP leaders who have since been suspended. The controversy erupted amid Vice President Venkaiah Naidu's tour of Qatar. | Read more|
Confirming his seat in the Uttarakhand Assembly and securing his post as the chief minister of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday registered a massive victory in the bypolls held for the Champawat constituency seat. | Read more|
The Trinamool Congress in Tripura suffered a setback on Friday with a former MLA quitting the party ahead of crucial bypolls in the state. Ashis Das, a leader from the Scheduled Caste community, had joined the Mamata Banerjee-led party last year after quitting the BJP. | Read more|
lamming the anti-encroachment drive being carried out in various parts of the city, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said if bulldozers raze shops and houses of 63 lakh people in Delhi, which are considered illegal, it will be the "biggest destruction" in independent India. | Read more|
Ahead of Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to Telangana today, state Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's son KT Rama Rao or KTR has written an open letter to the senior BJP leader on the "injustice" being done to the southern state by his party. | Read more|
In a major political development ahead of next year's Assembly polls in Nagaland, 21 of the 25 MLAs of the Naga People's Front (NPF) on Friday joined Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP). | Read more|
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today dismissed the speculation about changing political equations and said that there was "nothing political" behind his decision to attend the Iftar party organised by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav in Patna on Friday. | Read more|
The BJP today headed for a massive win in biennial elections to the Uttar Pradesh legislative council or upper house, weeks after its record victory in state elections, but had to settle for a loss in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency. | Read more|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that India stays firm with its interest while being viewed as a nation that can firmly speak about humanity at a time when the entire world is divided into two rival factions. | Read more|