PM congratulates RS polls winners

Patna: The Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Monday said it wanted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to announce granting of special category status to Bihar when he visits the state on Tuesday. Modi is slated to visit Motihari to participate in the concluding ceremony ...

Former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani, who was acquitted in the 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case, today said that she has not yet thought about joining active politics, but will continue to remain a BJP worker. "Truth always wins," she said on her acquittal ...

[India], Apr 21 (ANI): Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna has stirred a controversy by making some abusive comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Addressing a public rally in Vijayawada on Friday, Balakrishna, who is the brother-in-law ...

The Gujarat high court on Friday acquitted former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Maya Kodnani but upheld the conviction of former Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case in which 97 people were killed by a mob. The high court upheld conviction of 13 people including Bajrangi, and convicted another three for the first time, while acquitting 18 of the 32 people convicted by the trial court in 2012. In 2002, Kodnani was a BJP MLA and the trial court had said she was ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday appointed a new party president in Madhya Pradesh and will also replace its Rajasthan chief in a sign of major organisational revamp in the two poll-bound states where it has suffered a string of by-poll defeats to the Congress. BJP president Amit Shah appointed Rakesh Singh, the party's chief whip in the Lok Sabha, as the head of its Madhya Pradesh unit, replacing Nandkumar Singh Chauhan, who had been at the helm since August 2014. A party statement said ...

The BJP today announced 82 candidates, including elder brother of tainted mining baron G Janardhan Reddy and son of late chief minister S Bangarappa, for the Karnataka Assembly polls, taking to 154 the number of constituencies for which it has declared its ...

The newly-reconstituted Press Council deferred its meeting today to April 23 due to lack of quorum as only eight members have been notified so far by the government, Chairman Justice (retd) C K Prasad said.The quorum requires at least 11 members, while the ...

The Andhra CM charged the BJP and Centre with 'mud-slinging' and trying to 'damage his credibility'. IMAGE: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu addresses a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photograph: Vijay Verma/PTI Photo Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Pary of 'mud-slinging' and said the Centre was trying to 'damage his credibility' ever since his party began the fight for special category status to Andhra ...

Disgruntled BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday called on RJD president Lalu Prasad at Ranchi and described the jailed former Bihar chief minister as the "most popular son of soil" and a "mass leader". The actor-turned-politician, who represents the Patna ...