Politics

NEW DELHI: Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has written to President Ram Nath Kovind, urging him to invoke Article 355 in West Bengal to ensure that the government is run in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. Citing post-poll violence and Tuesday’s incident in Birbhum district in which eight people were […]

  LUCKNOW: Yogi Adityanath will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for second time in a grand ceremony at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium here on Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, chief ministers of some BJP-ruled states and senior BJP leaders are expected to attend […]

  NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday hit out at the BJP-led government over the hike in the prices of petrol and diesel by 80 paise and liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder by Rs 50. Speaking to the media outside the Parliament, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge said: “The government has once […]

  NEW DELHI/JAMMU: In a major jolt to the Congress after its debacle in five states, senior party leader Karan Singh’s son Vikramaditya announced resignation from the grand old party on Tuesday. In his resignation letter to Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, Vikramaditya said, “It is my belief that Congress is unable to realise and […]

  NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and senior party leader Azam Khan resigned as a member of Lok Sabha on Tuesday, days after they won the recently-concluded assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. While Yadav won the assembly election from his family pocket borough of Karhal in Mainpuri, Khan, who is in jail on […]