Politics

LUCKNOW: Upping the ante against Yogi Adityanath’s government in Uttar Pradesh over the law and order situation, Samajwadi Party has decided to send one delegation to Kannauj to meet the family members of a 10-year old girl who was murdered after the alleged rape. Interestingly, Kannauj was the parliamentary constituency of the Samajwadi Party chief […]

NEW DELHI: In an indication of reconciliation to G-23 leaders, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday named former Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and his deputy Anand Sharma as part of a nine-member Political Affairs Group (PAG) nine days after the Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. Besides […]

NEW DELHI: Amid a string of desertions hitting the West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with prominent leaders leaving the party to join Trinamool Congress (TMC), its national secretary Anupam Hazra on Monday called for introspection. Hazra’s comments came after West Bengal BJP vice-president Arjun Singh re-joined TMC in the presence of the […]

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Bhartiya Janta Party unit has shared a list of 10 names, including two former state Chief Ministers, to the central leadership for the Rajya Sabha seat which will fall vacant in July this year. Uttarakhand has a total of eight seats in both the houses of the Parliament of India – five seats […]

NURPUR (HP): The final battle for the ballot is still months away, but trouble seems to be brewing for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Himachal Pradesh ahead of the Assembly elections later this year. With an aim to strengthen the party in Kangra district, BJP had awarded its outspoken leader from Nurpur, Rakesh […]