PM pays tributes to Babu Jagjivan Ram on his birth anniversary

It appears that all is not well between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath . The Mahant of the Gorakhnath Math isn't used to taking orders from anyone and this has become clear less than three months into his tenure ...

A tussle of power is underway in Puducherry between Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi and the Congress Government headed by V. Narayanasamy over the transfer of a senior civil service official."Pondicherry being a union territory, the service matters are squarely within the domain of the Lieutenant Governor as administrator. I do transfers and postings all the time. But this is a unique thing. I was away for a short tour to Delhi when the Chief Secretary issued a transfer order of Municipal ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's request to people to shun use of petrol or diesel once a week in his Mann Ki Baat on Sunday has been put into practice by some Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators in Bihar. On Tuesday, half a dozen BJP MLCs reached Bihar ...

Inside bungalow number 6 at Lutyens Delhi's Krishna Menon Marg, lies a quiet, nondescript room that houses a memorial of former deputy prime minister Babu Jagjivan Ram. Adorned with around 40 of his pictures — cutting across different time periods, with ...

You started this journey from a small village in Bihar. Did you think one day you would become a Union Minister? Forget about dreaming of being a Union Minister, I never even had the desire to become a member of council or an MLA. I did'nt even think that I ...

NDA presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said that he does not belong to any political party and President post in above all the politics. He filed his nomination papers for the upcoming presidential elections in the presence of Prime Minister ...

In a Dalit versus Dalit contest, former Lok Sabha Speaker and onetime diplomat Meira Kumar, daughter of the late Dalit icon Babu Jagjivan Ram, will take on the NDA’s Ram Nath Kovind in next month’s presidential election, a 17-party conglomerate of ...

There is a reason why many transport companies are cheering the July 1 implementation of India’s biggest tax reform since independence in 1947. The move will replace more than a dozen levies with a new goods and services tax. This is expected to help reduce ...

The BJP has been pushing the two AIADMK groups to merge and then get the Sasikala clan out of the party and government.T E Narasimhan and Gireesh Babu report.   The crisis in Tamil Nadu's ruling party, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, has escalated. Seven months after the death of J Jayalalithaa, its supremo and the state's chief minister, the party has split into at least three factions. All within a year after it was re-elected to office. With a Presidential election in the ...