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NEW DELHI: In a clear indication that all is not well between National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United), Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar skipped the Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog chaired by Prime minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Sunday. Kumar, instead, participated in a government programme […]

SRINAGAR: While a section of the political class is crying hoarse over the issue, the common person in Jammu and Kashmir seems to have realized the benefits of the abrogation of Article 370 and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state into three Union Territories. On the third anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, the […]

NEW DELHI: Heavy cross-voting in favour of Draupadi Murmu became the distinctive feature of this Presidential election as the Opposition’s candidate Yashwant Sinha drew a blank in three states Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland and Sikkim. What sets the tongues wagging is an indication that Bengal satrap Mamata Banerjee’s fortress might have been breached. The result of […]

NEW DELHI: As voting took place today for India’s new President, opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Monday dubbed the polling as “very important” and urged political parties to vote in his favour to save democracy and the Constitution. Speaking to the media, Sinha said, “This election is very important and will set the path […]

NEW DELHI: In a bizarre statement, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said that cloudbursts in India are being engineered by foreign powers to destabilise the country. “There is a new phenomenon called cloudburst. This is what happened in the Godavari region which caused the flood. There are reports that these cloudbursts are a conspiracy […]