The opposition Congress on Wednesday pressed for the resignation of the Kerala Education Minister after the Supreme Court dismissed a state government plea seeking withdrawal of a criminal case against Left Democratic Front (LDF) MLAs, including V Sivankutty, in connection with the ruckus inside the state Assembly in 2 | Read more|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday attacked the Congress, accusing it of not allowing the monsoon session of parliament to function, and asked BJP MPs to "expose the party before the public and the media". The session has been marked by protests from the opposition and demands for discussions on the Pegasus phone | Read more|
Congress leader Nana Patole's comments accusing his own government in Maharashtra of spying on him has activated another bout of damage control in the state's ruling coalition, and declarations of unity. Nana Patole, the chief of the Congress party's Maharashtra unit, said today that he was "misinterpreted" and alleged | Read more|
KOLKATA, India — I am a member of the Indian Parliament, and on Sunday, the political party I belong to, the All India Trinamool Congress, defeated the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in elections for the West Bengal State legislature. Our party and my leader, Mamata Banerjee, the only female chief minister of | Read more|
Amid global criticism over political campaigns when Covid cases were exploding in the country, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has offered this justification - "You don't stop elections in a place like India". As per news report of NDTV, he also describes Covid as a shared problem and a global crisis. | Read more|
A war of words erupted between the government and Congress on Sunday involving two foreign missions in Delhi over supply of oxygen cylinders by the Youth Congress to these embassies for Covid patients. | Read more|
The anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh was "poorly designed and incompetently executed", said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, a day after a senior official denied "intelligence failure" after 22 security personnel were killed in an ambush in the state's Bastar region. | Read more|
Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, the chief of AIUDF, has said he is the only target of the BJP in Assam. He said he can sway 35 per cent votes in favour of the Congress-led alliance or mahajoth, of which he is a key ally. | Read more|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attacked the Congress, especially its leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on creating a fisheries ministry at the Centre. He expressed shock that the former party chief wasn't aware of such a ministry having been set up in 2019 by his government. | Read more|
The Aam Admi Party's (AAP) emergence in the Surat civic body is the beginning of a new politics in Gujarat and each of its winning candidates will execute the responsibility with honesty, party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today. He also vowed to improve Gujarat in partnership with the people of | Read more|
The Congress party today made a clean sweep of Punjab's seven municipal corporations in the state local body polls. The party bagged all the bodies for which the results were declared today: Moga, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Abohar, Pathankot, Batala, and Bathinda - the last one also being the most stunning result of the d | Read more|
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said Rahul Gandhi “is probably becoming a doomsday man for India”. | Read more|
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today launched a scathing attack on critics - particularly the Congress - accusing the Narendra Modi government of crony capitalism, ignoring the poorer sections of society and mishandling of the farmers' protest against the agriculture laws. "Who are our cronies? Our cronies are the | Read more|
Union minister Dr Harsh Vardhan Thursday wrote to Chhattisgarh health minister TS Singh Deo, who has gone public with his concerns about Bharat Biotech's Covaxin. The primary concerns of the state are the inhibitions regarding the "incomplete third phase trials" of the vaccine and the "absence of expiration date on the | Read more|
For the first time since the farmers’ protests began late last year, top US Congress members in the India Caucus have asked the Indian government to ensure that norms of democracy are maintained and the protesters are allowed to demonstrate peacefully with access to the Internet. | Read more|