BJP gets an early lesson in handling a coalition govt in JK

Red meat lovers in the state will now have to do without beef. A bill initiated during the previous Sena-BJP government and has been in the making for almost 20 years on Monday received the President's assent, making cow slaughter a non-bailable offence in Maharashtra. The punishment for the sale of beef or possession of it could be prison for five years with an additional fine of Rs 10,000. Photograph: Getty ...

Besides Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assurance to the Upper House on Tuesday that his party's alliance government in Jammu and Kashmir will not deviate from Parliamentary resolutions and the Common Minimum Programme (CMP), the hotheads in the ...

Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah today took a dig at the BJP-PDP coalition in the state over delay in allocation of portfolios. The post BJP, PDP should stop squablling and start governing, tweets Omar appeared first on Firstpost .

At a parliamentary party meeting of BJP legislators, the party which leads the government also reiterated its resolve about getting various Bills passed in Parliament. Addressing BJP members at the meeting, Modi asked them to pick out target groups ...

Targeting the AAP Government for its alleged high-handedness and unconstitutional conduct in the Delhi Assembly, the BJP on Tuesday raised the issue with Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.In a meeting, led by Vijender Gupta, party MLAs complained of ...

BJP may have made a climbdown on its position on Article 370 as to form an alliance government with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, but the RSS has said that the new regime is a "tribute" to party ideologue Shyama Prasad Mookerjee.

Elated over the BJP government's embarrassment in the Rajya Sabha over Opposition amendment to the President's address, TMC leader Derek O' Brien today said the opposition had shown how parliamentary democracy had the mechanism to deliver strong messages.

Opposition Congress today came down heavily on the BJP-led Gujarat government and accused it of not doing enough for farmers as well as cattle rearers of the scarcity-hit Kutch district.

Amid protests over land acquisition bill, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the BJP-led government is trying to "radically alter" the 2013 Land Bill to ensure developmental activities especially in rural areas.