Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa: Meet Rajasthan's deputy Chief MinistersThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has appointed Princess Diya Kumari as the deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan, a member of the former Jaipu...
'Troubleshooter' Shivakumar or 'feisty' Siddaramaiah: Congress must now decide 'Kaun Banega CM'?The newly-elected Congress MLAs in Karnataka are meeting today to discuss government formation with leaders eliciting their views on the Ch...
Congress CLP meet tomorrow at 5.30 pm to decide who will be Karnataka CMThe Congress Legislature Party in Karnataka will hold a meeting tomorrow to decide the new chief minister. Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar a...
Congress announces its final list of candidates for K'taka pollsThe Congress on Wednesday night had announced its fifth list of three candidates, and had replaced the candidate against Chief Minister Bas...
16 TDP members suspended from Andhra Pradesh Assembly for a dayAs the House took up a short discussion on decentralisation of administration, the opposition members stormed into the Well of the House an...
Charanjit Channi: Star for 111 days, Dalit leader now back to humdrum politicsThough Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu, who played a major role in Amarinder Singh's ouster, continued with his pitch to be de...
Karnataka government will deal with rioters with iron hand: Karnataka Revenue MinisterAs many as three people were killed in the police firing and scores other injured including 50 policemen in the violence that erupted on Tu...
Chitradurga district refuses to be branded as any party's bastionThis pattern – or the lack of it – in Challakere is true of the entire district. In the last two-and-a-half decades, Chitradurga district’s...
Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018: Congress releases 1st list of candidatesThe Congress today issued the first list of candidates for the Karnataka assembly elections, which will be held in May 12 this year.
Massive rally condemns death of Gauri, points fingers at rightwing activistsMost speakers pointed to the ‘celebratory’ and ‘congratulatory’ messages post on social media by BJP and Sangh Parivar activists upon the d...
BJP, Congress in grim battle for Karnataka bypollsPeople in Nanjangud and Gundlupet are bemused by the high-voltage campaign for the assembly by-polls on Sunday.
Dalits cry for justice in Bihar politicsRJD candidate from Jhanjharpur Gulab Yadav's election affidavit says he faces charges of rape (Sec 376 IPC) and under the SC-ST (prevention...
BJP has a new formula to woo dalits in BiharAs Bihar prepares for the remaining three phases of polling crucial for the BJP, the saffron party has devised a formula to reach out to da...
A beef-eating Hindu demands his rightsAs a libertarian believer in free choice, I have always championed the freedom to eat anything one likes.
Jarkiholi's resignation drama: Siddaramaiah ignored minister's candidates for boardsIn Jarkiholi's case, Siddaramaiah seems to be making efforts to try to retain him. But if he fails, the CM is left with just a handful of s...
Dalits stay mired in history despite Tamil Nadu social reformsDalits, accounting for a fifth of the over 7 crore state population, still find assimilation into mainstream society a struggle.
- Blue elephant denies poll ride to one and all
Almost all the constituents of the proposed Third Front have indicated their willingness to accept Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati as...