Politics

A day before the bypolls in Bihar, the Grand Alliance government released murder convict former member of parliament and founder of Bihar Peoples Party, Anand Mohan, on a 15-day parole on Wednesday. Sources privy to the developments said that the decision was taken keeping in mind the by-election in Gopalganj and Mokama, especially in Gopalganj […]

Voting for bypolls in seven Assembly seats across six states began on Thursday morning. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in direct clash with regional parties in many of these constituencies. The Assembly seats include Adampur in Haryana, Gopalganj and Mokama in Bihar, Andheri East in Maharashtra, Gola Gokarnnath in Uttar Pradesh, Munugode in Telangana, […]

The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the Gujarat assembly polls at 12 noon on Thursday. The poll panel has called for a press conference to announce the schedule. The term of the 182-member Gujarat assembly ends on February 18 next year. The poll panel had not announced the Gujarat election schedule when it […]

The internal strife in the Rajasthan Congress seems to be resurfacing again. Chief minister Ashok Gahlot’s defiance amidst a fresh salvo by his former deputy Sachin Pilot will test the crisis-managing abilities of the newly-anointed Congress president. On Wednesday,  Pilot alleged that his former boss could be following the footprints of former Congress leader Ghulam […]

Soren has been summoned months after the Election Commission of India (EC) in August sent a report to Jharkhand Governor Ramesh Bias ostensibly recommending his disqualification as a member of the assembly for allegedly holding a mining lease.