Politics Today

Shambhulal Regar, the Rajasthan man who was arrested for hacking to death a Muslim man, has been offered a ticket by an obscure political party from Uttar Pradesh to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Read More

Political parties have started manoeuvring as the country prepares to enter election mode to elect the 17th Lok Sabha in about seven months from now. Some are planning to forge new alliances and some alliances are witnessing bargaining and wrangling for seats. Read More

The case fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya’s flight from India seems to be getting murkier by the day and proving to be an embarrassment for the government and its investigating agency – the Central Bureau of Investigation. Read More

Workers from both the parties have actively participated in putting up several pandals in Kolkata and several districts across the state for Ganesh Puja. Many of their local leaders were seen inaugurating the pandals as well as visiting them for various functions. Read More

The Congress and BJP accused each other for helping fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, who is wanted by Indian agencies for bank fraud and money laundering. Mallya had claimed that he met Arun Jaitley before leaving India. Read More

The Uttar Pradesh government, on Thursday, ordered the release of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’, who was sent to jail, in June 2017, on charges under the National Security Act following the May 2017 Saharanpur inter-caste violence. Read More

Fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya stirred a storm when he said that he had “met the finance minister” before leaving India in 2016. Mallya’s claim kicked a political row in India with the opposition demanding a response from the BJP government. Read More

The Congress, Telugu Desam Party and the Communist Party of India joined hands to form an alliance, which they named as “Mahakutami” (grand alliance), to take on the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti in Telangana assembly election. Read More

The turf war between Jarkiholi brothers ­– Ramesh and Satish – and Karnataka minister for water resources DK Shivkumar in Belagavi is threatening the coalition government in Karnataka as the Jarkiholi brothers have issued an ultimatum to the Congress high command. Read More

The Supreme Court directed the chief judicial magistrate of Gorakhpur to pass an appropriate order on a case filed against Yogi Adityanath, UP chief minister, for allegedly delivering a hate speech in 2007, which had led to tension in the city. Read More