Bengaluru : Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah was detained on Saturday as party leaders tried to take out a march to Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s residence in Bengaluru to protest against the Bidar sedition case. Karnataka Congress leaders Dinesh Gundu Rao, Rizwan Arshad and K Suresh were also detained by […]

New Delhi : Irked by the Supreme Court observations on reservation not being a fundamental right, Dalit MPs across party lines met at Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan’s residence recently and favoured the creation of an Indian Judicial Service (IJS) with reservation. Speaking to The Indian Express, Paswan said: “All the MPs who attended […]

Hubballi : Karnataka would significantly contribute towards making India a $5 trillion economy by 2024-25, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said here on Friday. “Our state has the ability to contribute to the country’s economic growth for achieving the $5 trillion GDP target by 2024-25, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi envisioned,” the Chief Minister said at […]

New Dehli : Indian elections are increasingly becoming about the choice of a leader. Was this true of the recently concluded Delhi polls? The fact that the BJP did not have a Chief Ministerial face, as against the clear projection of Arvind Kejriwal, appeared to make an important difference. How critical was the leadership factor […]

Bengaluru : Appointment of Anand Singh, an MLA from the mine rich Ballari district as Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment Department has drawn flak from various quarters as several cases are pending against him, including under the Karnataka Forest Act. The Opposition Congress has hit out at Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa for appointing […]

Kolkata : West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday decided to protest against denial of invitation to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the inauguration of the East-West Metro corridor with a senior party MP and an MLA deciding to boycott the function, sources said. Senior TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and MLA Sujit Bose have […]

New Dehli : Arvind Kejriwal wrote to Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Wednesday, staking claim to form the government in the national capital, sources said, while hinting that the AAP might not invite senior leaders and chief ministers of other parties for the oath-taking ceremony. The sources said it was the formal process by […]

New Dehli : Electricity, education and healthcare all found a mention in Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s victory speech, in which he thanked the people of Delhi for handing AAP a massive win, and told them, “I love you”. But as significant as what the CM said was what he did not say: The speech did […]

New Delhi : As the counting of votes for the Delhi Assembly polls began, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday raised doubts on EVMs, alleging that no machine having a chip is tamper-proof. He called upon the Election Commission and the Supreme Court to take a fresh look at the use of EVMs in the […]

New Dehli : Union Minister Smriti Irani on Monday hit out at the opposition for accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of partiality, saying he has ensured development of constituencies represented by leaders of other parties. Intervening in the debate on the Union Budget, Irani said even when she was not representing Amethi in Lok Sabha, […]